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❙ PMC Biogenix, a subsidiary of diversified chemicals and plastics supplier PMC Group, is to increase capacity for fatty amide slip agents at its facility in Gyeongju, South Korea, by 30%. The plant is one of the company’s two world-scale facilities for slip agents, the other is at Memphis, Tennes- see. The company is anticipat- ing growth in demand alongside the global polyole- fins industry.
www.pmc-group.com
❙ UK recycler and compound- er Luxus and plastic pipe systems maker Polypipe have jointly launched a Compound- ing Polymer Apprenticeship scheme as part of the UK government’s new Trailblazer Apprenticeship Standards initiative. The scheme will see two apprentice technicians from Luxus and one from Polypipe undertake two year, multi-site apprenticeships in polymer processing and is intended to address a skills shortage in engineering talent in the UK.
www.luxus.co.uk www.polypipe.com
❙ Feddersen group company K.D. Feddersen became the official distribution partner of the Hyosung Corporation for polyketone (PK) in November 2015. Hyosung of Korea took up production of PK in 2011, opening a 50,000 tonnes/year plant at Ulsan, Korea, in mid-2015. K.D. Feddersen said it will will distribute the material into the extrusion industry with an emphasis on compounding applications.
www.kdfeddersen.com
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EC regulates to force REACH cooperation
The European Commission has adopted a new Implementing Regulation, which requires the European Chemical Agency to ensure all companies register- ing the same chemical substance within REACH are part of the same registration. The adoption of the
regulation means companies will not be able to submit a registration dossier for a substance under REACH separately if a registration for the same substance already exists. They will also not be able to update registrations that have been submitted individually if another registra- tion for the same substance exists in ECHA’s REACH-IT dossier submission tool. ECHA briefly closed
REACH-IT in the last week of January and readapted it to reject submissions outside of a joint registration. Companies making
registrations not in line with the new obligation will have them rejected at the ‘business rules’ step of the submission process and will be instructed
to co-operate with existing registrants of the same substance and submit jointly. This will mean discussing substance sameness, sharing data and costs and ultimately registering the substance jointly with any other manufac- turers and/or importers. ❙
http://echa.europa.eu
Mercedes turns to Polykemi
Swedish compounder Polykemi said that Mercedes Benz has started to use one of its 40% glass fibre-reinforced (GFR) PP compounds - Polyfill PPH GF5040HC – for the internal frames of sun visors used in
some of its C-Class range. The single-material design
replaces an assembly of metal and glass reinforced PBT, reducing weight while maintaining the same technical properties, reducing cost and simplifying assembly,
according to Polykemi. The Polyfill compound is
approved by Mercedes for this application according to Werknorm DBL 5404.45 and is on its approved list at 10–40% glass content for use in Europe. Polykemi said work is continuing to secure approval for the compound in North America and Asia and to extend application to further models. Polykemi said it
Polykemi’s Polyfill compound is used for the single-piece structure in this sun visor
COMPOUNDING WORLD | February 2016
expects to see high performance PP grades displace PA6 and PBT in more automotive applica- tions in future.
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www.polykemi.se www.compoundingworld.com
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