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China XD starts up Dubai plant
China XD has announced that its new plastics compounding plant in Dubai is now up and running. The US$80 million site has an initial capacity of 5,000- 10,000 tonnes/year and started up in May this year. Jie Han, chairman and CEO of China XD, said: “The facility contains state-of- the-art equipment that produces an array of specialized high-margin products and serves as a gateway to geographic opportunities in the Middle East and Europe. It is expected that further expansion of this facility will be mostly completed by the end of the year.”
The Dubai plant is the
company’s first production plant outside of China. China XD has said that it is also looking at options for expansion into North Ameri- ca, Singapore and India. ❙
www.chinaxd.net
LyondellBasell to buy Indian PP compounder
LyondellBasell has entered into a definitive agreement to buy SJS Plastiblends, a manufacturer of polypropylene compounds (PPCs) based at Aurangabad in India’s Maharashtra state. SJS employs 60 and makes about 12,000 tonnes/year of
PPCs for use in the automo- tive, home appliances and other markets. LyondellBasell CEO Bhavash
Patel said that this acquisition “will expand our global PPC manufacturing footprint and allow us to better compete in the long-term growth of India’s
automotive market”. India, which the company has supplied through imports and tolling arrangements since 2009, is said to be the world’s fourth largest growth market for automobiles, with 3 million cars produced each year. ❙
www.lyb.com
PolyOne works on wearable locator
PolyOne Corporation is collaborating with Filip Technologies on the Filip 2 wearable phone and locator for children. This newly launched device uses cell tower location and Wi-Fi triangulation to supplement GPS data, thus enabling parents to identify a child’s location accurately if they get separated from each other. As well as using PolyOne’s soft-touch GLS thermoplastic elastomer material, which is said
to offer a “smooth, silky texture for comfort”, the Filip 2 incorporates a range of PolyOne color- ants, such as Superhero Blue, Watermelon Red, Limesicle Green and Awesome Orange. These are designed to stay durable during outdoor play and sports, while also remaining bright and maintaining material performance attributes. ❙
www.polyone.com ❙
www.myfilip.com
Automatik improves the pelletizing of ETPs
Maag Automatik has developed Optimized Temperature Pelletizing (OTP) technology to improve the quality of engineer- ing plastic pellets produced using its Sphero underwater pelletizing systems. In the revised process,
pellets are cut in the presence of pressurised over-heated water at more than 100°C and subjected to the first cooling step. The pellets are then
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separated from the over-heated water and transported to the second cooling circuit which operates at below 95°C. After
this subsequent cooling, the pressure is released and the pellets are separated by the Centro dryer from the process water, ready for subsequent processing or packing. The process is claimed to minimise the formation of voids, which can be an issue with engineering thermoplas- tic pellets produced using underwater pelletizing. It takes place in a closed loop, so there
are no emissions to the air or product contamination. Automatik says that the
OTP technology yields high-quality spherical pellets, which have less wear during transportation, meaning lower dust formation. Target applications include resins for medical devices, optical polycarbonate mouldings and various automotive parts. ❙
www.maag.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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