NEWS Polykemi to add capacity at Ystad
Swedish compounder Polykemi is to install three new extrusion lines at its plant at Ystad during this year to keep pace with increasing demand for reinforced PP and technical compounds based on PA, PC/ABS and PC/PBT. The company said that
one of the lines will replace an existing older installation, the other two are additional and will increase capacity at the site from 65,000 to 73,000 tonnes/year. The investment follows the installation of two new lines at the facility during
Borealis inks Kazakhstan PO deal
Borealis and United Chemical Company (UCC) of Kazakhstan have signed a joint development agree- ment (JDA) for a two-unit Borstar PE plant with total capacity of 1.25m tonnes/ yr and an integrated ethane cracker. The agreement follows
a recently concluded pre-feasibility study. The next phase of that is likely to run to Q1 2019, follow- ing which a local JV with UCC could be signed. A final investment decision would take place in 2020. The two companies have also signed a memorandum of under- standing to work together on a 500,000 tonnes/yr PP project. �
www.borealisgroup.com
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2017. This saw a 7,000 tonne capacity increase and took the total number at the Ystad plant to 25 (33 across the Polykemi Group). Polykemi also upgraded its laboratory and offices last year.
Left: Polykemi is to expand capacity at its site at Ystad in Sweden
Right: Polykemi Sales Manager Mattias Persson
Polykemi Group Sales Manager Mattias Persson said the company had commercialised many new projects during 2017, which helped it push sales up 20% to SEK1.2bn (€116m). “I
predict that the strong international market will persist and we expect further growth with increas- ing volumes during this year,” he said. �
www.polykemi.com
Distribution event set for Barcelona
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AMI’s Polymer Sourcing & Distribution conference moves from Hamburg in Germany to Barcelona in Spain for its 13th edition, which takes place from 15-17 May 2018. Already an established meeting point for polymer suppliers and traders, as well as distributors, this year’s event includes a special Engineering Polymers focus, with contribu- tions from Ineos Styrolution Head of Product Management Standard ABS Dr Eike Jahnke, Covestro Head of PCS Industrial Marketing EMLA Jochen Hardt, Radici Performance Plastics Global R&D Manager Nicolangelo Peduto, and Aspen Global Solutions
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Founding Partner Pojhan Vahabi. Other expert presentations cover European, North American, African and Indian market analysis, 3D printing, and sustainable product design and the circular economy. Sustain- ability issues will also be ex- plored in a discussion session including Ford Motor Advanced Materials & Processes Specialist Maira Magnani and Bruj Interna-
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tional Managing Director Johan Vanhees. To find out more about Polymer Sourcing & Distribution 2018 visit the conference website or contact Maud Holbrook. Email:
maud.holbrook@ami.international; Tel: +44 (0)117 314 811;
Lomon Billions buys Sichuan Anning Chinese TiO2 giant Lomon
Billions has announced its intention to purchase Sichuan Anning Iron and Titanium, also based in China, in a deal valued at $710-790m.
COMPOUNDING WORLD | April 2018 the largest TiO2
Lomon Billions, which is supplier in
Asia and the fourth largest in the world, said it is making the move “to satisfy essentially all its sulphate pigment feedstock require-
ments”. Based in Panzhihua, Anning produces around 480,000 tonnes/yr of ilmenite and 2.3m tonnes/yr of iron ore concentrate annually. �
www.lomonbillions.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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