Innovative Polymer Compounds (IPC) compounder of the month
Location: Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland
Date founded: September 2008 Chairman: Alan Looney Ownership: Privately owned
No. of employees: Seven Current capacity: 350 tonnes
Profi le: Innovative Polymer Compounds is dedicated solely to materials for use in the medical device sector, working with designers, extruders and moulders from concept through to production. It carries out compounding in a purpose-built Class 100k clean room facility located at the heart of the world-class medical device cluster in Ireland. The company is certifi ed to the ISO 13485 medical device quality standard as well as ISO 9001. The Kilbeggan plant features a Leistritz twin-screw extruder equipped with K-Tron loss-in-weight feeders, plus a choice of Automatik strand-cut or Gala underwater pelletizers.
Product line: Innovative Polymer Compounds processes a wide range of polymers for medical applications including PEBA, PA, TPU, PEKK, PEEK, PP, PE, PC and PC/ABS. It carries out its own in-house colour matching using US-FDA approved pigments to Munsell, Pantone, and RAL colour standards.
Strengths: Innovative Polymer Compounds specialises in meeting rapid lead times and has the ability to produce small lots in support of medical R&D activities. The company also focuses on delivering the highest levels of material consistency and quality backed up with excellent customer support.
Website:
www.i-p-c.ie
Forthcoming features The next issues of Compounding World magazine will have special reports on the following subjects:
February Thermally-conductive compounds Materials handling Additives for polyolefi ns
March Additives for PET Twin-screw extruders Natural fi bres and fi llers
Editorial submissions should be sent to Andy Beevers:
abe@amiplastics.com
For information on advertising in these issues, please contact Claire Bishop:
claire@amimagazines.com Tel: +44 (0)20 8686 8139
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