news Leading producers invest in PEEK
Two of the leading players in high performance polymers, Solvay Specialty Polymers and Victrex, have separately announced big investments in their PEEK activities. Solvay said last month it is to
build a new PEEK production unit at its site at Augusta, Georgia, USA. Expected to come on stream in 2016, the new production unit will, together with that already being built at Panoli in India, raise the company’s global PEEK capacity to more than 2,500 tonnes. The two capacity expan-
sions represent an investment of more than US$85 million, the company said. The new Augusta production facility will be located alongside its existing resin and monomer
A complex gearbox component produced by BPG using Victrex PEEK
ment’s Regional Growth Fund, will focus on turning labora- tory concepts into real-world mass production solutions. “Victrex is continuing to
operations and will use the same technology as its Panoli plant.
“This major expansion drive
will make Solvay the only player in the industry to produce PEEK at two different sites in two different, growing regions,” said Augusto Di Donfrancesco, president of Solvay’s Specialty Polymers Global Business Unit. He said that having two manufacturing
locations will enhance security of supply for customers of its KetaSpire PEEK and AvaSpire PAEK products. Meanwhile, leading PAEK
polymer producer Victrex has announced that it is to build a new Polymer Innovation Centre at its UK headquarters. The company said the centre, which will benefit from £2 million (US$3.2 million) of funding from the UK govern-
Erema claims Intarema success
Austrian recycling systems specialist Erema has an- nounced that it already has 150 of its Intarema recycling systems in operation world- wide, a little more than a year after the machine was launched. Users include in-house and
commercial recycling con- cerns, such as SML Maschinengesellschaft of Austria, Copo-Plast of Germany (pictured), Preston Plastics and BPI Recycled Products in the UK, Polykar Industries of Canada, Belgotex Floorcoverings of South Africa,
and Megaport in Bulgaria. Copo-Plast managing
director Heinz Winkler said the company has been particularly pleased with the Intarema’s degassing performance and consistent throughputs, while SML product manager Thomas Rauscher said the system is processing one third more material than earlier equip- ment of the same size. The Intarema system was
introduced at the K show in Germany in 2013 and uses Erema’s Counter Current technology, which is claimed to provide high levels of process stability and produc- tion throughputs over a broader range of processing temperatures. ❙
www.erema.at
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invest in cutting-edge technological leadership in advanced polymers,” said Dr John Grasmeder, technical director at Victrex. “Improved application performance at the same or reduced cost is a common objective that we’re helping our customers to address across industries.” Victrex is currently
expanding its production capacity at its site at Thornton Cleveleys. The new plant will lift total capacity to around 7,000 tonnes/year. ❙
www.solvayspecialtypolymers.com ❙
www.victrex.com
BKS factory sharpens up in Indonesia
Belgium-based BKS has opened a new factory for the production and grinding of pelletizer blades at Cikarang/Bekasi, around 50 km east of Jakarta in Indonesia.
The plant, which
currently has a staff of 10, is equipped with five-axis CNC grinding and five-axis machining centres as well as a PTA welding centre. It is intended to allow BKS to offer shorter lead times to local customers while maintaining its European quality levels and also controlling costs. ❙
www.bks-knives.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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