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Celanese starts US expansion
Celanese broke ground last month on a major expan- sion of its manufacturing operation at Florence in Kentucky, USA that will see it add production scale compounding facilities. The new compounding unit will begin production in the first quarter of 2015, according to the company. Other additions to the Florence facility include new prototyping and product development capabilities. “Our manufacturing
facility in northern Ken- tucky is a centre for innovation that drives research and development and the advancement of high performance engi- neered materials,” said Phil McDivitt, vice president and general manager of the Celanese engineered materials business. ❙
www.celanese.com
BYK opens its new USA additives production plant
Germany’s Altana group officially opened its new US$50 million BYK additives produc- tion plant at Wallingford in Connecticut, USA, earlier this month.
The investment, the largest
Altana has ever made outside of Germany, doubles the company’s production capacity for additives in the USA. It will also enhance supply chain security for BYK’s additives customers worldwide, said the company. “This expansion enables us
to efficiently service our US customers with an enhanced portfolio of BYK additives manufactured in a facility built to the highest standards of safety”, said Dirk Plas, president of BYK USA. Aside from the Wallingford
facility, BYK has USA produc- tion sites at Gonzales and Louisville. The company also operates plants at Wesel,
BYK’s new Wallingford plant has doubled its USA production capacity for plastic additives
Kempen, Moosburg and Schkopau in Germany, Deventer and Denekamp in the Netherlands, Widnes in the UK, and at Tongling in China. Altana group generated
sales of around €290 million in the USA last year, around 16% of its global revenues. The
investment in the new Wallingford plant is a key step in its global growth strategy, according to Altana CEO Dr Matthias Wolfguber. “With this expanded facility we will accelerate our growth in North America,” he said. ❙
www.byk.com
@PlasticsWorld attracts 8,000 Twitter followers
@PlasticsWorld, the Twitter page for AMI’s magazines, publications and events, has now attracted more than 8,000 followers from around the globe, making it more popular than any other Twitter feed run by plastics industry magazines. The @PlasticsWorld Twitter page is
used to announce plastics industry news as it happens, providing useful links to relevant web pages, docu- ments, images and videos. Our expert editors and journalists add breaking news stories on a regular basis, as well as reporting live from major exhibitions and conferences.
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Compounding World, Film and Sheet Extrusion, Injection World and Pipe and Profile Extrusion. In addition, the @PlasticsWorld Twitter page is used to announce special discount offers on our books and publications, as well as delivering news about our comprehensive programme of plastics industry conferences. If you already have a Twitter
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