news Luxus buys Colour Tone
UK-based technical com- pounder Luxus has acquired Colour Tone Masterbatch, a manufacturer of additive and colour masterbatches based in the south of Wales.
Luxus said the acquisition
will enable a strategic realignment as well as improvements in production capabilities at the Colour Tone site at Bedwas Caerphilly. “This strategic investment
is a natural progression of our 20 year working relationship. It will enable us to significantly enhance our offering to deliver highly engineered coloured polymers that our global client base requires, providing the strongest possible market position,” said Luxus Managing Director Peter Atterby.
Baerlocher invests in metal soaps
Baerlocher USA, the American arm of Germany’s Baerlocher Group, is to install a new reactor at its site in Cincinnati in the US to expand capacity for calcium, zinc, sodium and other metal soaps by 50%. The facility will be
operational in June of this year and will meet growing demand for the products from the North American polyolefin and PVC sectors. Metal soaps are used as acid scavengers, stabilis- ers, lubricants and mould release agents. ❙
www.baerlocher.com
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Schulman improves flow
Luxus MD Peter Atterby (left) with Colour Tone’s Tony Gaukroger
He said that Colour Tone, which generated sales of around £5m last year, will continue to operate indepen- dently under the control of Tony Gaukroger. Atterby said the move will
enable the two companies to exploit technological syner- gies. He said that Colour
Tone’s expertise in develop- ment of infra-red reflection (IIR) pigments for packaging, for example, can be utilised in the Luxus Hycolene range of automotive compounds to ease recycling and modify heat build-up. ❙
www.colourtone-masterbatch.co.uk ❙
www.luxus.co.uk
A Schulman claims its new PolyBatch EasyPour additive masterbatches can improve dispensing of liquids from stand-up pouches and other pouch packaging formats. The EasyPour products optimise the polymer surface properties on the pouch interior to enable the content to flow more smoothly, resulting in improved dispensing and evacuation. The new masterbatch
can be used in both flexible and rigid multilayer constructions. ❙
www.aschulman.com
Dow and SK agree EAA deal
Dow Chemical has agreed to sell its global ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) copolymers and ionomers business to SK Global Chemical, a subsidiary of SK Innovation. The condi- tional deal includes sites at Freeport, Texas, and Tarra- gona, Spain, plus associated IP and trademarks. The agreement is part of the ongoing regulatory approval process for Dow’s
merger with DuPont and is conditional on the merger being completed, which is expected to take place within 1H 2017. SK Global Chemical has
agreed to honour certain unspecified customer and supplier contracts and other agreements. Dow makes EAA copoly-
mers under the Primacor brand as part of its Packaging
& Speciality Plastics business. Primacor EAA copolymers are mainly used in flexible packaging, where they combine the water resistance, chemical resistance and barrier properties of the ethylene segments with the polarity, toughness, hot tack strength and low temperature heat seal of acrylic acid. ❙
www.dow.com ❙
www.skglobalchemical.com
Americhem's Vi-Chem targets Europe
Americhem is introducing the range of automotive window encapsulation TPE compounds manufactured by its Vi-Chem subsidiary, which it acquired last year, to Europe.
COMPOUNDING WORLD | March 2017 “We’ve been making PVC
window encapsulation products for over 20 years and these compounds provide the perfect combination of UV stability, product consistency,
tool-tailored flow, proven adhesion to glass and cost effectiveness,” said Bryan Kazmer, Vi-Chem General anager. ❙
www.americhem.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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