news Recycled carbon black standards
ASTM International has set up a new technical committee to develop standards for the fast growing area of recycled and recovered carbon black products. The new Committee on
Recovered Carbon Black (D36) is comprised of members of ASTM’s existing Committee on Carbon Black (D24) plus other specialists in this field. It will focus on creating and updating standards in areas such as
decomposition of scrap tyres and other end-of-life rubber components, as well as material characterisation. ASTM said the first priority
of the new committee will be to revise and adopt a number of standards that currently fall under the jurisdiction of the D24 Carbon Black group. Anthony Thornton, who
formerly served on ASTM’s board of directors has been appointed to chair the new
Evonik buys Huber’s silica unit
JM Huber has agreed to sell the Silica business unit of its Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) subsidiary to Evonik Industries for $630m in a deal expected to close in 2H 2017. The proposed sale includes HEM’s silica facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Huber’s Silica business unit is expected to generate sales
of about $300m for this year and an adjusted EBITDA of approximately $60m. The business is oriented towards the dental care sector, while Evonik’s silica activities have been focused more strongly on industrial applications, notably tyres and coatings industry. It is unclear how much the move will impact Evonik’s
operations in tyres. However, Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Evonik Executive Board, said Huber Silica “will be an outstanding reinforcement for our growth segment Resource Efficiency” and will further expand its operations in North America and Asia. ❙
www.hubermaterials.com ❙
www.evonik.com
Faci picks Nordmann Rassmann
Nordmann Rassmann has taken over distribu- tion in Germany of a number of high-quality metallic soaps - including calcium stearate, zinc stearate, magnesium stearate, sodium stearate and aluminium stearate - and certain other
additives previously sold by Italy’s Faci Group, one of the world’s leading producers of metallic soaps. The company’s say the new arrangement will improve support for German customers. ❙
www.nrc.de
committee. He is currently director of product integrity and performance at Micromer- itics Instrument Corporation, based at Norcross in Georgia, US.
The first meeting of the new
committee will be held on March 27 in Brussels, Belgium, alongside the European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) annual conference. ❙
www.astm.org
Radici adds high heat PA grade
Radici Group said that its Performance Plastics business unit has developed a new PA for production of blow moulded automotive parts that can withstand continuous exposure to hot air at up to 230°C. The new addition to the
company’s Radilon range was developed with Röchling Automotive and was introduced at the 21st Plastic Materials Congress in Varese, Italy, last year. ❙
www.radicigroup.com
Wacker invests in pyrogenic silica production
Wacker Chemie has an- nounced plans to build a new 13,000 tonnes/year production plant for its HDK brand of pyrogenic silica at its site in Charleston, Tennessee, US, to meet growing world demand. Pyrogenic silica is mainly
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used as a filler in silicone elastomers and as a rheology control additive in unsaturated polyester resins, plastisols and some other applications. It is produced from tetrachlorosi- lane, which is a by-product of polysilicon manufacturing.
COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2017 The new production facility
will cost around $150m. Construction will begin in Q2 of this year with completion planned for 1H 2019. Wacker is currently
expanding its Charleston facility into a fully integrated
silicon site and will integrate pyrogenic silica production into this process, as it already does at its locations at Burghausen and Nünchritz in Germany. The company also manufactures pyrogenic silica in China. ❙
www.wacker.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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