2013
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Emerald invests in feedstocks
Emerald Kalama Chemical plans to re-start a second benzoic acid rector train at its Rotterdam facility in the Netherlands during the second quarter of 2014. It will add 75,000 tonnes/year of new capacity and help to meet increasing demand for the company’s K-Flex non-phthalate plasticizers. Emerald commissioned a
new K-Flex production plant at Rotterdam in 2012 and it has also increased capacity for the plasticizer at its site in Kalama, Washington, USA. It acquired the Rotterdam benzoate facility from DSM in 2010. K-Flex glycol dibenzoate
esters are fast-fusing, high-polarity plasticizers that are used in a range of applications, including vinyl flooring. ❙
www.emeraldmaterials.com
Clariant launches its first Project House in Italy
Clariant announced at K 2013 that it is investing €2 million in its first Project House in Pogliano, Italy. The 400 m2 facility is scheduled to open this month and it will be used to develop “breakthrough concepts and solutions in masterbatches”. The company says that this
first Project House will connect teams of experts from around the world to focus on “what’s next” in functional packaging for food and beverages, personal care products, and household and cleaning materials. A second Project House is planned for Asia and this will have a different market focus. The Pogliano facility will house chemists and techni- cians as well as extrusion machinery and analytical equipment. The idea is to identify strategic areas and to
ensure the sustainability of the masterbatches innovation pipeline”.
He added that the initial
work at Pogliano on functional packaging masterbatches will include technologies for improving barrier properties, such as oxygen scavenging additives. The Project House will have
Hans Bohnen: Project House will look at masterbatches to improve barrier properties
explore emerging technologies and advanced concepts that can lead to new market innovations.
Hans Bohnen, head of
Clariant’s Masterbatches business unit, said: “We are committed to generate cutting-edge products, processes and services that
strong links with Clariant’s brand new €100 million Innovation Center in Frankfurt, Germany, which was first announced back in 2010 and was officially opened on 31 October 2013. It will coordinate Clariant’s global R&D activities. Discussing the different
roles of the two facilities, Bohnen said: “The Project House will not be developing new molecules – that will be carried out at Frankfurt”. ❙
www.clariant.com
SolVin Award celebrates PVC innovation
The winners of the SolVin Award for innovation in PVC were announced at a ceremony during K 2013. Molecor of Spain took the gold prize for its work on advanced PVC-O pipe technologies, extending the diameter and market potential of such pipes. The silver award went to
Forbo Siegling of Germany for its AmpMiser conveyor belt that saves energy and can also be made using bio-based materials, while bronze was won by Depestele of France for
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its NanoVin flax-reinforced PVC composites. Spain’s Plasticos Escanero
took the recycling award for its reprocessing of waste sludges from PVC production, and the
industrial design award went to FIP of Italy for its Easyfit PVC-U ball valves that were developed in conjunction with Giugiaro Design.
The judging panel, which
The SolVin Awards went to six European teams leading the way in innovative PVC developments
COMPOUNDING WORLD | November 2013
included Compounding World’s editor Andy Beevers, awarded a special prize to BASF, Renolit and Sanquin, for their development work on blood collection systems made using PVC formulations containing Hexamoll DINCH non-phtha- late plasticizers. ❙
www.solvinaward.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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