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❙ Dr Mathias Lütgendorf, a member of Clariant’s executive committee, left the company by mutual consent at the end of 2015. His successor has yet to be named. Appointed to the executive committee in 2009, Lütgendorf held responsibil- ity for the Additives, Pig- ments, Masterbatches and Functional Minerals business units, as well as the Europe, Middle East & Africa and Japan regions and the group Procurement and Operational Excellence functions.
www.clariant.com
❙ Celanese is to expand manufacturing production capacity for its GUR UHM- WPE resin at its US facility at Bishop, Texas, to 38,000 tonnes/year. The new capacity will be available by May 2016 and will enable the company to introduce two new medical GUR grades for pharmaceutical applications including filtering, purifica- tion of liquid drug formula- tions, and mechanically operated devices used in drug contact and delivery.
www.celanese.com
❙ Germany’s Masterbatch Association (part of the VDMI German Minerals Associa- tion) elected Dr Martin Fabian of Lifocolor Farben to serve another two years as its chairman at its autumn meeting in Dresden. He will continue to head the board, alongside vice-chairs Werner Tschersich of BASF Colour Solutions and Bernd Schäfer of Deifel.
www.vdmi.de
8 news in brief Huber buys Martinswerk
J.M. Huber has agreed to acquire the Martinswerk mineral flame retardants and speciality chemicals business- es of Albemarle via its Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) division in a deal that is expected to close in early 2016. The move will expand its flame retardants and smoke suppres- sants range in both product and geographical terms. The businesses being
acquired include the Martinal brand of precipitated and ground alumina trihydrate and Magnifin premium precipitated magnesium hydroxide. These will become part of HEM’s Fire Retardant Additives (FRA) business unit. The deal also includes a 50% stake in Magnifin Magnesiaprodukte, a joint venture with RHI at Breitenau, Austria, which
Martinswerk acquisition expands Huber’s position in flame retardants
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produces magnesium hydroxide. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. This is HEM’s fourth and
largest acquisition in the FRA sector in recent years, following Sherwin Williams’s Kemgard flame retardant and smoke suppressant business in 2010, Almatis’s speciality hydrate flame retardants in 2012, and the Safire range of nitrogen and phosphorus flame retardants from the Floridienne Group and Catena Additives earlier in 2016.
l In a separate move, Huber said its Huber Carbonates business is “substantially increasing” ground calcium carbonate capacity at Marble Hill, Georgia, US, in response to rising demand and new product sales. The move follows recent expansion at another US site at Quincy, Illinois, and includes both medium fine and fine ground products. The products are used in thermoset composites and thermoplas- tics, among other applications. ❙
www.hubermaterials.com
Eastman’s Amphora used in new 3D filament from ColorFabb
Eastman Chemical and ColorFabb have introduced a new filament for 3D printing applications produced using Eastman’s Amphora AM3300 3D co-polyester polymer and designed to offer a broader processing window.
Introduced at the CES
consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, US, this month, the nGen filament is a tough, low-odour and styrene-free product suitable for a wide range of general 3D print projects. It offers a low
processing temperature range of 220-240˚C, yet parts produced using it are heat resistant to 180˚C. “nGen empowers a larger panel of users to create tough and useful items, as the filament is appropriate for any- one who wants to print a variety of objects without compromising quality, performance, colour or strength,” said Ruud Rouleaux, managing director of Color- Fabb, which manufactures the filament. ❙
www.eastman.com ❙
www.colorfabb.com
COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2016
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