NEWS Techmer gains ISO 13485
US compounder and materials development firm Techmer PM has secured ISO 13485:2016 certification for its site at Batavia in Illinois, where it plans to produce its recently launched HC medical grades. Techmer CEO Michael McHenry said that the move
“reinforces our corporate goals of continuous improve- ments and creating safe formulations for the medical device industry”. The company says ISO 13485 certification means that
its healthcare customers should be able to accept Techmer’s outgoing quality certifications as their incoming quality certifications. �
www.techmerpm.com
Recycling blockchain ideas
SABIC has launched a pilot project in partnership with technology company Finboot, chemical recycling firm Plastic Energy and packaging specialist Intraplás to investigate the use of blockchain technol- ogy in supporting end-to- end digital traceability of circular feedstock. Finboot’s Marco
software will be used to track Tacoil pyrolysis oil produced by Plastic Energy’s chemical recy- cling process, its delivery to SABIC for conversion into Trucircle, and ongoing delivery of polymer to Intraplás. The aim is to ensure that
all of the data gathered remains unchangeable while being shared, so providing “transparency, auditability and account- ability in a complex industrial ecosystem”, according to SABIC. �
www.sabic.com
8 IMAGE: TECHMER PM Above: Parts produced using Techmer PM’s HC medical compounds BASF steps up China plans
BASF has given final approval for construction of its long-planned verbund site at Zhanjiang in Guangdong province, China. The focus will now be on building the core, including a steam cracker and several downstream petrochemical and intermediate plants. The company commenced work at the site in 2010. The first engineering plastics
unit is currently starting up and another for TPUs will come onstream in 2023. BASF expects to invest up to €10bn at Zhanjiang by 2030, when it is expected to be fully operational. It will be its third largest verbund site after those at Ludwigshafen in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium.
www.basf.com
Sumitomo to launch LCP LFTs
Sumitomo Chemical Advanced Technologies plans to commercialise a new family of long fibre reinforced (LFT) compounds based on its high perfor- mance liquid crystal polymers (LCPs). Currently available for customer evaluation, the company says the two new development grades — Su- mikaSuper SCG-379 with 30-50% glass fibre and SumikaSuper SCG-420 with 30-40% carbon fibre — will significantly lift the thermal and mechanical perfor- mance available from LFT technology.
“It has long been estab- lished that mechanical properties of plastics
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increase with longer fibre lengths,” said Takayuki Sugiyama, Sumitomo Product Manager. “However, it also is well known that rarely do fibres longer than 2mm survive the screw, runners, and gates to make it into the mould and the moulded part.” The company believes the high flow rates of LCP resins means the new LFTs, which the company says have been under develop- ment for four years, will suffer much less fibre breakage during moulding. According to Sumitomo,
one area of interest for the new LFT compounds is production of automotive energy-management
structures such as bumper boxes and pillar reinforce- ments as the LCP-based parts can be mounted to the body-in-white (BIW) during initial vehicle build. “These materials are being positioned against lightweight metallic alloys and even steel where they offer comparable or higher mechanical performance at much lower weight, better energy management, elimination of corrosion, reduced manufacturing and finishing steps, and very-fast processing times, which will help offset initial higher material costs,” said Tomo- hiro Sato, Sumitomo Senior Manager. �
https://sumichem-at.com/
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