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ColorFabb to stand alone
Rowa Group's manufacturing site at Pinneberg in Germany Rowa invests at Pinneberg
Rowa Group is expanding capacity at its Rowa Master- batch operation at Pinneberg with the installation of a new manufacturing line from Coperion. It is also adding a 250mm wide cast film line for development work. According to the company,
the new Coperion line is designed for flexible manufac- turing and will include upstream container mixing, gravimetric dosing and underwater strand pelletiser. Side feeders will allow
incorporation of shear-sensi- tive pigments and additives. The line will be in operation by the end of the year. The new cast film line will be equipped with a 250mm co-extrusion die and will enable the company to better support customers’ develop- ments in packaging films. It is the latest in a series of investments in the Rowa Masterbatch Technical Centre at Pinneberg; last year the company upgraded its injection moulding equipment to handle
high temperature plastics. Meanwhile, Rowa Group subsisidary Romira has opened its new Competence Centre, also at Pinneberg, that will develop customer specific technical compounds for demanding markets such as automotive. Headed up by Julia Paul, the centre will work closely with other members of the Rowa Group to meet the increasingly stringent demands of the automotive industry. ❙
www.rowa-group.com
Masterbatch distributor Helian Polymers has set up its ColorFabb 3D printing filament business as a stand-alone company. According to Helian, the
ColorFabb filament business has grown at such a pace over the past two years that it can no longer be managed as a ‘brand’ operation. ColorFabb operates six
extrusion lines at its plant at Venlo, where it manufac- tures filament in its own proprietary PLA/PHA blends and in Eastman’s Amphora copolyester. It offers an extensive range of standard colours and offers a custom colour matching service. ❙
www.helianpolymers.com
Plasticomp extends LFT hybrid compounds
USA-based LFT producer PlastiComp has extended its Complet Hybrid long glass and carbon fibre reinforced product lines to include two new base polymers. The company said the line now includes PP and TPU as well as the original PA66 option. According to PlastiComp, the
Complet Hybrid products are designed to provide performance at an affordable price.
“Hybrids really provide a lot more
material options for product designers and engineers to better balance performance versus cost instead of having just all-glass or all-carbon reinforcement choices,” said Eric Wollan, technical director at PlastiComp. The company sees the introduction
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of a PP-based Compet Hybrid as particularly attractive to automotive customers, where LFT PP is already delivering weight reductions but is performance-limited in some applica- tions. “To meet increasing fuel economy
regulations they still need to go lighter, but LFT-PP can’t get any stronger and jumping straight to carbon fibre is a bold economic step for a price-sensitive industry. Using our long glass+carbon hybrids we can incorporate carbon fibre in small increments to achieve the performance boost needed to switch more components from metal to plastic while keeping material costs reason- able,” said Wollan. ❙
www.plasticomp.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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