news BASF invests in pigments
BASF has announced plans to add to its production network for pigments with investments at its sites at Ludwigshafen in Germany and Nanjing in China, in both cases in response to growing demand generally. The company has also sold a masterbatch subsidiary to PolyOne, North America’s largest compounder and concentrate maker.
At the Nanjing site, which opened in 2013, BASF has already increased capacity for the Irgazin brand of high-per- formance diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments. These are widely used in plastic applications, and are described as “colour- intensive and extremely lightfast and weatherproof”. At Ludwigshafen, mean- while, BASF plans to expand
capacity for alpha blue pigments by the autumn of 2016. These are said to have good fastness properties and versatility for use in plastics and other applications. l Separately, BASF has sold its Magenta Master Fibers (MMF) subsidiary to PolyOne for $22m. Operating from sites in Italy and China, MMF makes polyester and polyamide masterbatches and offers related technical services for the mass dyeing of synthetic fibres. It has annual sales of around $16m. PolyOne president and CEO
New capacity is to be installed at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site
Robert Patterson called the buy an “excellent strategic acquisition that will further accelerate our speciality strategy.” BASF, meanwhile, will be focusing on its customised colour master- batch business. ❙
www.dispersions-pigments.basf.com ❙
www.polyone.com
UV agents added to SVHC Candidate List
Two UV protection agents for use in the plastics, rubber and other industries are among five substances added to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)
for Authorisation under REACH by ECHA. 2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-(5-chlo-
robenzotriazol-2-yl)phenol (UV-327, CAS 223-383-8) and 2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-
4-(tert-butyl)-6-(sec-butyl) phenol (UV-350, CAS 253-037-1) were both added because they are deemed to be very persis- tent and very bioaccumulative. ❙
http://echa.europa.eu
Lucomax software release
The three-year Lucomax project in France is set to pre-release software aimed at simulating the co-knead- er compounding process. The Lucomax project, which was undertaken to optimise process conditions of co-kneader equipment, is said to now be able to provide information about material temperature, pres- sure and viscosity. The project was led by
France’s National Research Agency with participants including Sciences Comput- ers Consultants, Arkema, cable, wire and tubing group Acome, flooring group Gerflor, IMP (Material Polymer Engineering), the engineering school Mines ParisTech, Université Jean Monnet in St-Etienne and CEMEF, the Centre for Material Shaping. Co-kneader compound-
ers are used to help control temperature in shear sensitive materials through the simultaneous combina- tion of rotation and linear movement of a single screw. ❙
www.scconsultants.com
Hyosung appoints Feddersen for polyketone
KD Feddersen has been appointed official distributor for South Korea-based Hyosung Corporation’s polyketone (PK) polymers. Originally developed by Shell and marketed under the Carilon name, PK was
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withdrawn from the market in 2000. Hyosung resumed production on a pilot scale in 2011, putting a 50,000 tonne/ year plant into operation at Ulsan last summer. According to KD Feddersen, the polymer offers perfor-
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mance in areas such as temperature and impact resistance, chemical resist- ance and barrier performance that cannot be matched by other high performance polymers such as PA12. “We distribute these raw
polymers in Europe and Latin America in the three standard types of high-flow, medium- flow and high-impact”, said Lukas Musial, Head of Polymers & Compounding Technology at K.D. Feddersen. ❙
www.kdfeddersen.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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