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❙ Gear pump to pelletiser maker Maag has opened a new service centre at Vadodara in India. The new facility, which has a staff of seven, is equipped to provide a full rotor grinding and equipment repair for gear pumps and pelletisers for Maag customers in India. It is the company’s sixth service centre in Asia, joining pre-existing operations in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan.
www.maag.com
❙ Ferro Corporation has extended its distribution arrangement with Simon & Werner in Germany to include the range of ultrama- rine, iron oxide, chrome oxide green and bismuth vanadate pigments resulting from Ferro’s acquisition of Nubiola in 2015. The company already handled Ferro’s heat and weather stable complex inorganic colour pigments. The company said consoli- dating the pigment offering would improve its ability to support its customers in an important and demanding market.
www.ferro.com www.simon-und-werner.de
❙ Nynas has opened a new subsidiary in Colombia to support sales of napthenic oils in the Andean and Central American region. The company said the office will have two local sales staff; support services will be provided from the company’s existing Buenos Aires office in Argentina.
www.nynas.com
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Extricom acquired by CPM Extrusion
US headquartered compound- ing and processing machinery group CPM has acquired Extricom Blach Extruder & Components, a supplier of twin screw extruder replacement parts based at Lauffen in Germany.
CPM said Extricom
represents a technology and geographic complement to its CPM Extrusion Group’s existing operations, which include Century Extrusion based at Traverse City, Michigan, US, and Ruiya Extrusion located at Nanjing in China. Aside from its expertise in twin screw extruder parts,
Extricom is also the inventor of the RingExtruder, a novel multi-screw extruder devel- oped for compounding of high viscosity materials. “The CPM Extrusion Group
has grown to meet the needs of our global customers and this acquisition will allow us to further complement that service with a major base in Europe,” said CPM Extrusion Group President Bob Urtel. “Extricom’s advanced twin screw and multi-screw design and process knowledge will enhance the group’s applica- tions capabilities and with it out value proposition to the
customer.” Extricom Blach Extruder & Components has been renamed Extricom Extrusion. Managing Director Markus Blach said: “With our expand- ed portfolio of compounding equipment and a world class applications group we will deliver highly innovative solutions to a wide array of applications.” Established in 1883, CPM is
a leading supplier of process- ing equipment for food, animal feed and plastics. The company employs more than 1,000 people worldwide. ❙
www.cpmextrusiongroup.com
Foster introduces PA nano-alloys
Foster Corporation, a Con- necticut, US-based specialist in polymers for healthcare applications, has launched the Nanomed Max range of nanoclay-reinforced PA compounds. The new compounds are based on an alloy of meta- xylene diamine polyamide (PA), are USP Class VI tested and are said to be suitable for medical device components that require high strength but which cannot use metals or traditional reinforced plastics, such as reusable instruments or components that must withstand gamma, e-beam and ethylene oxide sterilisation. Nanomed Max compounds
incorporate up to 10 wt% nanoclay platelet particles and are claimed to provide
COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2017
Foster Corporation says Nanomed Max nanoclay-modified PA compounds can be used in medical applications that cannot use metals
reinforcement at a molecular level. According to the company, the nanoclay “enhances strength and rigidity of the polymer without hindering flow into thin sections”. Foster said Nanomed Max
will compete with PEEK in some applications as the compounds provide 15% more
tensile strength than unmodi- fied PEEK at approximately half the price. In addition, it said they do not require high temperature injection moulding or extrusion equipment, processing on the same moulds and barrel heaters as conventional PA and polyester compounds. ❙
www.fostercomp.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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