news Conductive Plastics set for US
Places are booking up for AMI’s first Conductive Plastics conference in North America, which takes place in Philadelphia on 27-28 September. The two-day event, which is supported
by Compounding World’s sister magazine Injection World, looks at the development, processing and application of electrically and thermally conductive thermoplastic compounds for use in areas as diverse as fuel cells and batteries to LED lighting and thermal heat sinks.
The programme includes expert
speakers from many of the established players in this market, including Premix, Imerys, HPF, RTP, LehVoss and PolyOne. It also includes some new names with innovative conductive offerings, including CarbonX, Mackinac Group, Ocsial Group and Aplied Nanostructured Solutions. Application expertise will be provided by ZBT, Integral Technologies and Outlast Technologies. Delegates already booked to attend the
event are drawn from a wide range of industry sectors and include representa- tives from Amphenol FCI, Enersys, Epcos-TDK, Forbo Group, Pentair, Rockwell Automation and SC Johnson. To find out more about the conference,
or to book a place, contact AMI North America’s Senior Conference Coordinator Kelly DeFino Tel: +1 610 478 0800; Email:
KC@amiplastics-na.com. Full details can also be downloaded from the conference website.
Plastic Resins adopts X-Rite technology
X-Rite, the Swiss-based specialist in colour science and technology that owns Pantone, has announced that US firm Plastic Resins has standardised on X-Rite colour management systems for all colour formulation and tasks. Plastic Resins focuses its
business on the development of small-lot custom colour concentrates. By using the X-Rite Ci7800 benchtop spectrophotometer with Colour iMatch software, X-Rite said the company “is able to easily measure samples and
quickly generate accurate colour recipes” based on parameters such as colour difference, metamerism,
opacity, lowest cost or number of colourants in a formula. According to Plastic Resins CEO Paul Warnell, the new
equipment and software enables it to create colour formulations and to adjust if a batch is slightly off spec. “If we are building a formulation for a custom colour, Colour iMatch gets us 99% of the way there with accurate recipes and guides us to making proper colour adjustments for each lot. If we are matching a colour to the Pantone Matching System, Colour iMatch provides us the closest possible match.” ❙
www.plasticresinsinc.com ❙
www.xrite.com
Emery opens new apps lab
Natural chemicals giant Emery Oleo- chemicals has opened an application laboratory for its Green Polymer Additives business within the new 6,770m2
and Edenol plasticisers; formulation and applications testing for rigid and flexible PVC and engineered resins. “Our lab housed in the TDC in
technical development centre
(TDC) at its site in Cincinnati, Ohio. The new facility will feature applica-
tion testing for regional customers, mirroring those at the company’s site at Loxstedt, Germany, which opened in 2013. Key features include: custom lubricant and plasticiser development, scale-up of Loxiol brand ester lubricants
10 COMPOUNDING WORLD | August 2016
Cincinnati is specifically designed to leverage our in-depth application knowledge of polymer processes and technical capabilities to deliver custom- isable market-ready solutions to the North American Market,” said Dr Harald Klein, Global Business Director of the Green Polymer Additives business. ❙
www.emeryoleo.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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