news S&E adds new extruder
USA-based S&E Specialty Polymers has added an Entek twin-screw compounding line at its plant at Lunenburg in Massachusetts, extending production capacity for its own product lines and allowing it to increase its toll compounding potential to 15 million lbs/year (6,800 tonnes/year). The installation includes an
Entek 53-mm co-rotating twin-screw extruder complete with specialty feeders and
auxiliary equipment. The equipment has been supplied with three additional screw sets to allow the company to make faster changeovers between different materials. “We invested in the new
screw sets to run an expanded portfolio of products and increase our processing flexibility,” said Duane Shooltz, president of S&E. “This new line will expand our capabili- ties and allow us to provide additional solutions – including new and better materials compounds and concentrates –
to the plastics industry.” S&E Specialty Polymers
offers a toll compounding service covering a wide variety of polymers, including PVC, PVC alloys, TPOs, TPRs, flame retardant polyolefin, flame retardant/low smoke PVC Plenum and low smoke zero halogen compounds. It also markets its own product lines, which include TufPrene TPEs, TufFill polyolefins, and a range of custom concentrates. l S&E Specialty Polymers’ president Duane Shooltz will give a presentation on “Key trends and opportunities in the North American compounding market” at the Compounding World Forum 2014. The
S&E has increased capacity with a new Entek 53-mm Emax compounding extruder
event takes place in Philadelphia, PA, USA on 9-10 December – details at
http://bit.ly/CWF2014. ❙
www.sespoly.com ❙
www.entek.com
AmTopp increases capacity
USA-based masterbatch producer AmTopp is installing a seventh compounding line at its plant at Lolita in Texas, taking its capacity to 68 million lbs/year (31,000 tonnes/year). The new line incorpo-
rates a Farrel CP 1000 continuous mixer extruder. “We are excited about
the installation and expect the new capacity for concentrates to be available in the first quarter of 2015,” said Homer Hsieh, president of AmTopp, which is a division of Inteplast. AmTopp manufactures a
variety of colour, white and additive concentrates at the Texas plant. ❙
www.amtopp.com ❙
www.farrel-pomini.com
BASF completes Chinese compounding expansion
BASF said this month that its expanded Ultramid PA and Ultradur PBT compounding operation at Pudong, near Shanghai in China, is in production around six months ahead of schedule. The company has more than
doubled capacity of the Pudong plant from 45,000 to 100,000 tonnes/year, making it the company’s largest compound- ing plant for the products in the Asia Pacific region. The investment includes a line for local compounding of speciality grades.
BASF said the new Chinese 12 COMPOUNDING WORLD | June 2014
capacity, together with the compounding plant currently under construction at Yesan in Korea that is scheduled to commence operation at the
BASF has completed its Pudong compounding expansion ahead of schedule
end of next year, will help lift its compounding capacity in Asia from 130,000 to 225,000 tonnes/year. The company has also
increased production capacity for its Elastollan TPU at the Pudong site and is currently building three new lines that will double its production capacity for Cellasto microcel- lular PU materials when completed next year. “As the leading producer of
polyamide, PBT, TPU and Cellasto… we continuously strengthen our position in key markets,” said Raimar Jahn, president for performance materials at BASF. “These capacity expansions will support this future growth.” ❙
www.basf.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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