news Arkema sells stabilizers to PMC
PMC will take over Thermolite PVC stabilizers
Itochu signs CNT deal with SWeNT
SouthWest NanoTechnolo- gies (SWeNT) has appointed Itochu Plastics to distribute its carbon nanotube (CNT) products throughout Asia. The agreement covers commercially-produced specialty multi-wall and single-wall CNTs. SWeNT’s CEO Dave Arthur said: “Sales opportunities in several key target markets are increasingly to be found in Asia, and the need for a strong distribution partner there has become evident. Itochu is the ideal partner to help us maximize our penetration of display, semiconductor, energy storage and advanced composites markets.” The research market in
Asia will continue to be served by Sigma-Aldridge. ❙
www.swentnano.com ❙
www.itc-ps.co.jp/e
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Arkema plans to sell its tin stabilizer business to the PMC Group. The deal, which is expected to be completed this autumn, includes Arkema’s Thermolite heat stabilizers for PVC compounds plus Fascat catalysts and fine chemicals. The tin stabilizer
business has a turnover of approximately €180 million, employs 234 people
and runs four industrial sites around the world. The plants in Beijing, China, and in Carrollton, Kentucky, USA will be transferred to PMC along with certain assets of Arke- ma’s facility at Mobile, Alabama, USA. In addition, part of the Vlissingen site in the Netherlands will be run by Arkema on behalf of PMC. Arkema says that the tin
stabilizers sale is part of it strategy to “refocus its
activities on fast growing core specialty businesses”. It sold its vinyl division to the investment company Klesch in November 2011. Headquartered in Mount
Laurel, New Jersey, USA, the PMC Group manufactures performance chemicals including a wide range of plastics additives and master- batches. ❙
www.arkema.com ❙
www.pmc-group.com
Vinyl Compounds adds new line
Vinyl Compounds of the UK has ordered another Batten- feld-Cincinnati extrusion line for the production of rigid and flexible PVC granules. It brings the total number of com- pounding lines at the com- pany’s plant to eight, all based on Battenfeld-Cincinnati extruders. The new line features a BEX 2-130-22V twin-screw extruder with an energy-efficient AC drive, a nitrided steel barrel and an electrically adjustable shear gap. Its screws are optimized for the application and nitrided and coated for wear resistance, with a double venting zone and internal screw temperature control. The line’s hot-cut pelletizer includes a swing-mounted head and die. Outputs between 1,200 and 2,000 kg/h can be achieved for flexible PVC compounds and between 850 and 1,500 kg/h for rigid PVC formulations, depeneding on the application. Richard Loynes, commer-
COMPOUNDING WORLD | August 2012
Finalising the deal at the NPE 2012 exhibition in Florida: Battenfeld-Cincinnati’s regional sales manager Hartmut Hachmeister together with Vinyl Compound’s managing director Chris Makin and commercial director Richard Loynes
cial director at Vinyl Com- pounds, said: “We have been buying Battenfeld-Cincinnati machinery since 1976 and have always been really happy with their performance; this has been proven time after time by us coming back to buy new machines.” Battenfeld-Cincinnati has
updated its EMS extruders for pelletizing/compounding appli- cations. It says that it has recently achieved the highest number of orders for com- pounding machines in its history, with a total of 15 orders in one year. ❙
www.battenfeld-cincinnati.com ❙
www.vinylcompounds.co.uk
www.compoundingworld.com
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