news Domo compounding PA in China


Domo Chemicals, a fully integrated Germany-based caprolactam and PA 6 producer, has started produc- tion at its PA compounding plant at Jiaxing in China’s Zhejiang province. The plant currently has 10,000 tonnes/ year of capacity and will double this in two stages by 2019.


The new plant, which was


officially opened on 28 April, will supply a variety of engineering plastics to the Asian market, including the company’s Domamid brand of


PA 6, PA 66 and high tempera- ture polyamide functionalised compounds for the automotive, electrical and consumer goods industries.


The operation will also


supply Domo’s Econamid and Econamid ORO polymers made from pre-consumer waste feedstock and offer a ‘fast


Domo's site in China


response colour match service’ for pre-coloured PA compounds. “We have seen a clear signal that the market demand for high value and high quality engineering plastics is increasing. For example, we have doubled our sales in the past year and automotive, especially the under-the-hood applications, is driving this increase,” said Ludovic Tonnerre, Asia Managing Director at Domo Engineering Plastics. ❙ www.domochemicals.com


Techmer PM invests at Batavia plant


Materials design firm Techmer PM is expanding its 7,400 m2 plant at Batavia, Illinois, US, “as part of ongoing invest- ments to support increasing marketplace demand for advanced solutions and rapid response from operational efficiencies.” The move will also see the


company close a facility at Avon in Ohio, which was


acquired as part of Accel in 2008, and consolidate it into the new Midwest Centre of Excellence at Batavia. The company will spend about $2m this year to add several new extrusion lines at Batavia, comprising both new equipment and hardware and some relocated from Avon. This will add around 30% more capacity at Batavia.


The company will also take


on new employees in produc- tion, technical, and other support positions, while implementing its ‘small-lot’ know-how to enhance quality, lower scrap rates and speed up small orders in a variety of polymer systems. Techmer also used the


Batavia announcement to update on developments at its


Techmer ES subsidiary, which is nearing completion of its New Castle, Delaware, manufacturing plant. It said the first production line started up in April and all lines are expected to be running by the end of June. The plant represents a $2.6m investment in Techmer’s engineering polymer capabilities. ❙ www.techmerpm.com


Arkema and Xenia co-operate


Arkema and Xenia, an Italian firm with expertise in compounding carbon fibres with thermoplastic polymers, have signed a cooperation agreement covering development of carbon fibre-reinforced long chain polyamides. The development deal includes


Arkema’s Pebax brand of TPE, which the partners will seek to develop to higher rigidity while retaining its existing characteristics of “enduring elasticity and impact resistance even at


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extremely low temperature, and also outstanding processability through direct injection moulding”. Pebax compounds are mainly found in sports, optical and consumer electronic applications and the focus will remain on those markets. Arkema said it also intends in the longer term to apply this technology to its other high performance polymers, such as Rilsan PA 11 and Rilsamid PA 12. ❙ www.pebaxpowered.com


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