news Lanxess ups iron oxide pigments
Lanxess is to increase global production capacity for iron oxide pigments from 375,000 to 400,000 tonnes/year by 2019. The company, which sells the pigments under the name Bayferrox for multiple applications, said it is making the move to safeguard long term customer supply. The expansion will take
place across several sites. At Krefeld-Uerdingen in Ger- many, claimed to be the world’s largest synthetic iron oxide pigment plant, capacities for red and black pigments will be increased by around 23,000 tonnes/year to 303,000 tonnes. Another 2,000 tonnes/year of
Teknor Apex appoints M Holland
US custom compounder Teknor Apex has appointed M Holland Company as its sole national distributor for engineered thermoplastic products in North America. M Holland has distrib-
uted the company’s Chemlon brand for 20 years into industries including transportation, consumer products, and industrial markets. This will now be extended to include Teknor Apex’s range of PA 6, 66, 6,10 and 6,12 compounds under the same brand. The transistion will be
complete by early autumn of this year. ❙
www.teknorapex.com ❙
www.mholland.com
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yellow pigments will be added at Porto Feliz, Brazil. Lanxess expects demand
for these pigment products to expand at 3%/year beyond 2018 and up to 4%/year by 2025 due to strong growth in
countries such as India and the continued recovery of the building industry in North America and parts of Europe. China is also expected to see strong growth. Lanxess said many smaller
pigment production sites in China have shut in recent years due to industry consoli- dation and increasingly stringent legislation, leading to supply constraints for red pigments especially. It said it believes this process will continue and that demand for high-quality pigments with uniform global standards will simultaneously increase, offering it more market opportunities in the country. The company’s new site at Ningbo, China, which started up in Q1 2016, will produce around 25,000 tonnes/year of yellow-cast red pigment. ❙
www.bayferrox.com
Borealis and Total in PE/cracker deal
Borealis and Nova Chemicals have signed a preliminary agreement with Total Petro- chemicals and Refining USA to form a joint venture to develop a 1m tonne capacity light feed cracker and PE production unit at Total’s site at Bayport in Texas, US.
The partners hope to finalise
the deal late this year, subject to required regulatory approv- als, with start up planned for late 2020. The JV will be set up alongside an existing 400,000 tonnes/year Total PE unit and will include a 625,000 tonne/ year Borstar PE facility. According to the partners, the JV “will create significant
synergies by enabling strong integration of the value chain and the first-time use of the proprietary Borstar PE process technology in the Americas”. The site would also export PE to other regions as demand grows. ❙
www.borealisgroup.com ❙
www.total.com
BASF to expand additives in China
BASF, which said last year it was to invest more than €200m globally to increase its production capacity for plastics additives, has announced plans for a new additives plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China. The company said the new additive manufac- turing plant will be completed in 2019 and will enter commercial production in 2020. It will manufacture antioxidants and associated forms and blends and will have a production capacity of 42,000 tonnes/year.
Hermann Althoff, Senior Vice-President of COMPOUNDING WORLD | April 2017
BASF’s Performance Chemicals unit in the Asia-Pacific region said that Asia, and China in particular, “offer significant growth opportuni- ties, driven by diverse applications including packaging, construction, consumer goods, automotive and many more”. He said that the new facility will be built to the highest environmental standards and will use one of the most efficient production processes. BASF’s regional application centre is also located in Shanghai. ❙
www.plasticadditives.basf.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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