news Gabriel-Chemie expands in Spain
Gabriel-Chemie, an Austrian- based masterbatch manufac- turer, has expanded into Spain by opening a new subsidiary, Gabriel-Chemie Ibérica, in Madrid.
The new unit will be headed
by Jose Luis Santamaria Palacios, alongside sales director Rafael Becedas Diez.
Xinda Group forms R&D partnership
China XD Plastics subsidi- ary Xinda Group, which mainly makes polymer composite materials for automotive applications, has formed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Chem- istry (ICCAS) for R&D in high-end polymer materials and related technologies. Under the agreement a
joint Xinda Group-ICCAS laboratory is to be estab- lished, which will be funded by the former. This, Xinda said, is “intended to take advantage of China XD Plastic’s leading role in the polymer materials industry and ICCAS’s extensive research resources and expertise in polymer materials and related fields”. The Xinda Group will also gain access to 57 of ICCAS’s patents in additive manufacturing, supra polymers and functional polymer materials. ❙
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The company will also invest in a laboratory and production facilities for colour master- batches to develop business in Spain, Portugal and North Africa.
Spain is Europe’s seventh
largest plastics market, consuming about 2.7m tonnes of polymers in 2015. Until now,
Gabriel-Chemie has been exporting colour and additive masterbatches to the Iberian Peninsula. The company said in a
statement that it hopes that the new subsidiary “will help generate further growth in this important market”. This is Gabriel-Chemie’s
seventh subsidiary, alongside others in Germany, the UK, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. The company, which dates back to 1950 and claims to be one of Europe’s leading masterbatch manufacturers, employs about 530 people. ❙
www.gabriel-chemie.com
Erema wins Austrian patent prize
Erema has been awarded an Inventum prize by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation & Technology and the Austrian Patent Office for its Intarema plastics recycling technology (pictured). The Inventum prize, which has been awarded four times previously, honours the most innovative patent filed in Austria each year. Erema was chosen from a short list of ten entries in December. Launched at K in 2013,
Intarema uses a patented counter current technology that is said to offer high levels of productivity, flexibility and energy efficiency. Implemented where the outlet from the cutter/compactor meets the tangentially connected
TER Plastics buys Proquibasa
TER Plastics Polymer Group subsidiary TER Plastics Iberica has acquired the plastics division of Proquibasa, a family-owned chemical distrib- utor headquartered at Barcelona, Spain. The company said the Proquibasa portfolio of
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products will continue to be available to customers almost unchanged. They will be offered alongside the TER Plastics Iberica range of commodity and engineering plastics, which includes its own manufactured Terez compounds. In a statement, the
company said the regional expansion will enable its customers and business partners to benefit from TER Plastics’ technical expertise in Spain and Portugal while strengthening its European presence. ❙
www.terplastics.com
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extruder, the technology is said to enable the extruder to handle more material in a shorter time and to be less dependent on the degree of pre-compacting. l The prize award comes at the end of a busy year for Erema. The company launched its €2m UpCentre service in
November, which is built around a 500 tonne/month Corema single step recycling system and is intended to pilot new recovery schemes for customers. At the end of the year it opened its first wholly-owned subsidiary in Moscow, Russia. ❙
www.erema.at
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