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Clariant to manufacture masterbatch in Australia
Clariant is building a new mas- terbatch plant near Sydney in Australia. The facility is scheduled to be commissioned before the end of this year and will mainly serve the Austral- ian market with a full range of colour and additive master- batches. It will work closely with Clariant’s masterbatch plant in New Zealand. “Asia Pacific region is one of Clariant’s focal areas for future development. The new Australian masterbatches plant will support our
Lanxess combines businesses
Lanxess is consolidating its additives operations into one business unit as part of a major company-wide reorganisation designed to reduce costs. The Functional Chemi-
cals and Rhein Chemie business units will be combined along with the specialty chemicals product line of the Rubber Chemi- cals business unit to form the new Rhein Chemie Additives business unit. This will be headed up by Anno Borkowsky. Overall the number of
Lanxess business units is being reduced from 14 to 10, and administrative functions are being consolidated. ❙
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Masterbatches business to grow and to increase its customer service focus in the region,” commented Mathias Lütgendorf, member of the executive committee. “Building a local master-
Mathias Lütgendorf: “Asia Pacific region is one of Clariant’s focal areas for future development”
batches production plant is a key part of providing fast and reliable service to our Australian customer base, as well as to global and local brand owners,” added Heiner Mehrtens, head of RBL Masterbatches in Asia Pacific. ❙
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China XD plans Dubai facility
China XD is investing US$80 million in a new plastics compounding plant in Dubai, UAE. The facility is scheduled to open in early 2015 with an initial capacity of 5,000-10,000 tonnes/ year, company officials said in a Q2 earnings call. It will be the China XD’s
first production plant outside of China and it will serve markets in Asia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. ❙
www.chinaxd.net
Argex and Helm sign TiO2 deal
Argex Titanium has appointed Helm as a distributor for its titanium dioxide (TiO2) in the US and Canada. Under their agreement, Helm will exclusively market
and distribute 50% of TiO2 (up to 25,000 tonnes/year), produced from Argex’s first industrial-sized plant to be located in Salaberry-de-Valley- fied, Québec, Canada. The agreement is for a period of seven years, commencing when the plant reaches a certain capacity, which is currently expected to take place in the first quarter of 2017. “This agreement combined with the supply agreement with PPG Industries commits a significant quantity of the available capacity of Argex’s first full scale titanium dioxide production plant,” said Roy Bonnell, president and
Argex is commercialising a new process for producing TiO2
CEO of Argex Titanium. Philipp Mangold, president of Helm US, a subsidiary of Germany-based Helm, added: “We are extremely pleased to be able to secure an additional supply of high quality titanium dioxide for our customers and add another milestone to the development of our distribution network in North America.” Argex Titanium has
developed an advanced chemical process for the volume production of high-
grade TiO2 for use in plastics, paint, cosmetics and other applications. The proprietary process takes relatively inexpensive and plentiful source material and produces
TiO2 along with other valuable by-products. ❙
www.argex.ca
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