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Fire firms cut lobby links
Following a highly critical campaign by the US Chicago Tribune newspa- per, brominated flame retardant manufacturers Albemarle, Chemtura and ICL Industrial Products have ended their involve- ment with lobbying group Citizens for Fire Safety. Visitors to the Citizens
for Fire Safety website (
www.cffsi.org) currently see a statement from the three companies stating that: “After a thorough assessment...we have decided that our message about public policy and fire safety is best served by managing all of our state and federal advocacy through the American Chemistry Council’s North American Flame Retardant Alliance.” The newspaper, which is
campaigning to limit the use of brominated flame retardants, had claimed Citizens for Fire Safety operation was “an industry- funded front group” set up by and funded by the brominated flame retardants industry (covered here in Compounding World). It claimed the companies’ links to the group were unethical and called for them to be expelled from the American Chemistry Council for breach of its Responsible Care programme. ❙
www.albemarle.com ❙
www.chemtura.com ❙
www.icl-group.com
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Lanxess buys Bond Laminates
Lanxess has strengthened its position in the lightweight polymeric automotive materi- als sector with the acquisition of German thermoplastics composite specialist Bond Laminates.
Based in Brilon in Germany, Bond Laminates manufactures a range of custom thermoplas- tic composite sheet materials that it supplies under the Tepex brand name. Lanxess has worked closely with the company since 2006 on a number of automotive projects.
Bond Laminates employs
around 80 people and gener- ates sales of around €16m. The acquisition, for an undisclosed figure, includes
the Bond production site, its simulation technologies and laboratory facilities. “Lanxess is reinforcing its
credentials as a premium supplier of innovative products that serve the growing trend of ‘Green Mobility’,” said chairman of the Lanxess board of management Axel C Heitmann. “We see tremen- dous potential for this composite technology as it spreads from the premium automotive segment to the wider market.” Thermoplastics composite
sheets are said to be easier to process into complex shapes than metal, provide good
Bond’s Tepex
composite is used in this brake pedal
mechanical properties, and can cut weight by up to 40%. “We are delighted to be joining a global company with excellent ties to the automotive industry,” said Bond-Lami- nates’ managing director Jochen Bauder. Lanxess will incorporate
Bond into its High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit, part of its €5.1bn Performance Polymers segment. ❙
www.lanxess.com ❙
www.bond-laminates.com
Stewart commissions new facility
UK-based garden and home products group Stewart Plastics has commenced production at its new £3.5m facility at Banbury, near Oxford. The new factory is situated on a 17,000m2
site and
includes injection moulding and rotational moulding production capabilities and a new warehouse with capacity for more than 12,000 pallets. “We are delighted to have
completed this move. It means Stewart CEO Richard
Butler with staff member Pippa Greenwood at its new facility
we can invest in world-beating products and manufacturing processes and consolidate our position as a quality UK manufacturer for many years to come,” said Stewart group chief executive Richard Butler. Stewart posted sales of
around £13.5m in 2012 but the company says it is on track to hit £16m this year. The company currently has 12 moulding machines installed at the new plant and will be transferring a further 10 machines from its former facility at Croydon in South London over the next two months. The Croydon site will be closed. ❙
www.stewartcompany.co.uk
INJECTION WORLD | October 2012
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