NEWS
Celanese ups compound capacities across Asia
Celanese has unveiled a three-year plan to expand its engineered material com- pounding capacities across three of its facilities in Asia. The company said it will add about 52,000 tonnes/yr of compounding and long-fibre thermoplastics capacity at its integrated
chemical complex in Nanjing, China, by the second half of 2023. It also plans to add 7,000 tonnes/yr of PA compounding capacity at its plant at Suzhou in China by Q2 2022 and will add a similar volume of general compounding capacity at its facility at
Silvassa in India by Q1 2022. Tom Kelly, Celanese
Senior Vice President Engineered Material, said the company “is adapting to local customer needs and gaining a competitive advantage in a complex and changing environment.” �
www.celanese.com
PA6 performs in oil pans
Germany’s IBS Filtran is using Durethan BKV35H2.0 PA6 from Lanxess in transmission oil pans, meeting the performance expectations of customers while providing a significant cost saving over the PA66 grades commonly used in the past. According to IBS Filtran, the 35% short glass fibre- reinforced PA6 grade provides the same ageing profile as PA66 while provid- ing better impact resistance and elongation at break, reduced shrinkage, and good weldability. It also offers very good surface characteristics, which is important for effective operation of the sealing
Maris
moves in recycling
Italian twin screw com- pounding machinery maker Maris has stepped up its focus on the recy- cling market with the launch of two new brands — Evorec Plastic and Evorec Plastic Plus. Maris has delivered a number of recycling lines over the past few years but this new move marks its “formal introduction” to the recycling solutions sector, according to a company spokesperson. “The intrinsic character-
IBS Filtran is using Lanxess PA6 in place of PA66 in auto oil pans
gaskets in service. PA6 is proving a good
alternative to more costly PA66 in a broad range of oil circuit components, accord- ing to Lanxess technical application expert Christof Boden. “In addition to car
transmission oil pans, we are increasingly seeing truck oil pans and cylinder head covers made from polyam- ide 6 being used in series production and develop- ment,” he said. �
www.lanxess.com
istics of co-rotating twin-screw extruders can ensure not only excellent homogeneity, degassing and filtration levels of the processed material, but also offer the possibility of adding fillers and/or additives,” according to Maris. Evorec Plast products
are targeted at applica- tions that require only the supply of a twin screw compounder; Evorec Plast Plus systems combine the twin screw extruder with a single screw extruder and handling equipment. �
www.mariscorp.com
PolyREC established to verify circularity
Plastics industry trade associations Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and VinylPlus have formed a new organisa- tion called PolyREC to monitor, verify and report their plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe using a com- mon data collection system, RecoTrace.
www.compoundingworld.com PRE president Ton Emans said:
“Setting up mechanisms that evidence progress in driving plastic circularity in a transparent manner is a must if we are to meet the EU targets.” PolyREC, he added “is a significant step towards a credible and systemic approach to genuinely improve plastic production,
collection and recycling.” Other interested organisations are also invited to join. The RecoTrace data collection system is based on the long standing Recovinyl system that was developed within the VinylPlus scheme. �
www.plasticsrecyclers.eu
April 2021 | COMPOUNDING WORLD 5
IMAGE: LANXESS
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