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❙ Perstorp’s Capa 6500D and 6800D bioplastic polyesters have secured food contact use approval in the US. Both are said to show excellent biodegradability and are mainly used for applications such as bags and films, paper cup coatings and packaging. Capa 6800D is a new introduction. The high molecular weight linear polyester is derived from caprolactone monomer and is said to be as durable, stable and processable as the standard lower molecular weight product.
www.perstorp.com
❙ Russian compounder R&P Polyplastic is to supply materials for production of exterior and interior parts on Great Wall Motor’s Haval model. Great Wall, a Chinese car maker, is building a plant in the Tula region of Russia that is due onstream in early 2019 and will have an initial capacity of 80,000 cars/year, covering eight different off-road and cross-over models. The supply deal follows two years of negotia- tions between the companies.
www.polyplastic-compounds.ru
❙ Evonik Industries has combined its isophorone chemistry and epoxy curing agent businesses into a new Crosslinkers business, which will mainly serve the coatings and adhesives, civil engi- neering, high-performance elastomers and composites markets. The new business employs around 1,000 worldwide.
www.evonik.com/crosslinkers
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EU backs NIR pigment study to ease recycling
A consortium of companies from the UK, Ireland and Sweden has secured a €1.47m investment co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme to develop near-infrared (NIR) detectable pigments as an alternative to carbon black and other colorants that cannot be easily sorted during recycling. Carbon black reflects very
little or no IR radiation so materials containing it are ‘invisible’ to sorting machines in recycling operations. Black plastics represent about 5% of packaging and 30% of both electric/electronic and automotive waste. The two-year NIRSort
project will be led by UK-based technical plastics recycling and compounding firm Luxus. Earlier this year it acquired additive and masterbatch supplier Colour Tone, which
has previously carried out some research in the field. Other consortium members include Swedish compounder Polykemi, which will formu- late, process and test materi- als, then evaluate them for use in innovative packaging material via its subsidiary, Scanfill. Ireland-headquar- tered rigid plastics manufac- turer One51 will contribute its injection moulding manufac- turing expertise. The ultimate aim of the NIRSort project is to develop a range of polymer colorants
that will enable NIR sorting operations to segregate black and coloured plastics from waste streams to a level of purity suitable for highly engineered polymers. Luxus’s role includes identifying formulations with optimal cost-effectiveness in packag- ing recycling and extending the technology across to electronic and automotive waste, which have their own specialised needs. ❙
www.luxus.co.uk ❙
www.polykemi.se ❙
www.one51.com
Carbon black loaded trays (shown left under IR light) are invisible to IR sorting technologies
PolyOne adds colour with Mesa
PolyOne Chairman, President and CEO Robert Patterson
COMPOUNDING WORLD | August 2017
PolyOne has acquired Mesa, a US-based supplier of solid and liquid colourant technologies for markets including packag- ing, consumer products and outdoor equipment. The deal includes facilities in Arizona and Arkansas. This is the fourth acquisition in the speciality colours area in the past eight months for PolyOne. Chairman, President and CEO Robert Patterson said: “We continue to focus on these successful bolt-on opportuni- ties where we can invest to
grow, leverage our service and innovation expertise and collaborate across all our PolyOne businesses.” l PolyOne has also reached a definitive deal to sell its Designed Structures and Solutions (DSS) business, including sheet, rollstock and packaging assets, to Arsenal Capital Partners for $115m. The business, which was acquired as part of Spartech in 2013, is considered to be non-core. ❙
www.polyone.com
www.compoundingworld.com
PHOTO: POLYONE
PHOTO: LUXUS
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