news news in brief
❙ Swedish compounder Polykemi has signed a cooperation agreement with US-based Omni Plastics to provide local production of its products for the North American market. Polykemi already operates componding operations at Ystad in Sweden and Kunshan in China. The Omni deal will enable it to support custom- ers with compounds manufactured locally in the US. Omni has production capacity at Evansville in Indiana.
www.polykemi.com
❙ Fast parts manufacturer Proto Labs has added liquid silicone rubber (LSR) capabilities to its production offering. The service has been available to customers in North America since the end of last year and to European customers since February. Proto Labs expects the service to appeal to medical industry customers in particular, where LSR is quite widely used for its unique property set.
www.protomold.com
❙ BASF is to sell its France- based liquid masterbatch operation to Audia Plastics, which owns the US-based masterbatch maker Uniform Color, polyolefin compounder Washington Penn Plastics and resin distributor Southern Polymer. BASF said the disposal will allow it to concentrate its efforts on its core solid and powder masterbatch activities.
www.basf.com www.audiaplastics.com
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Engel Korea hands 5,000th machine to Flextronics
Engel’s production plant in South Korea delivered its 5,000th
injection moulding
machine at the beginning of this year – an Engel Victory model with ecoDrive power unit destined for a Flextronics facility in Malaysia producing electronic parts. Engel established its plant
at Pyungtaek City in South Korea in 2001. The factory serves as the company’s manufacturing base for small and medium-sized machines for the Asian market (large machines are built at its recently expanded plant in Shanghai in China). Flextronics is a long
standing Engel customer with close to 400 of the company’s machines in operation across the group. The contract manufacturer says one of the reasons for buying Engel
Engel CEO Dr Peter Neumann hands over the 5,000th
machine
from the company’s Korean plant to Flextronics President of Global Operations Mechanicals Gerhard Zebe
machines is the company’s global manufacturing pres- ence. “Our project running times
are constantly getting shorter”, says Gerhard Zebe, President of Global Operations Mechani- cals at Flextronics, based in
Zhuhai, South China. “As a company with global produc- tion, we value partners that also have a global presence and provide the same quality and service worldwide.” ❙
www.engelglobal.com ❙
www.flextronics.com
Celanese extends composites R&D
Celanese Corporation has signed a two-year contract extension with the Aachen Centre for Integrative Lightweight Production (AZL) at the RWTH Aachen Univer- sity in Germany to jointly develop thermo- plastic composite solutions for automotive, construction and oil and gas applications. RWTH Aachen
University officially launched AZL in 2013 with 33 founding members,
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including Celanese. The centre undertakes research covering production from carbon and glass-fibres, textile preform- ing, high-volume plastics
processing, automation, machining and testing. “The effort in developing
potential new business opportunities for applications that use composite solutions from the Celanese broad portfolio of engineered materials is significantly reduced by approaching the task with a strong network
collaborator such as AZL,” said Michael Ruby, global
Door module in Celanese Celstran LFT
composites business manager, Celanese. ❙
www.celanese.com ❙
www.azl.rwth-aachen.de
www.injectionworld.com
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