NEWS
Avient expands Colorworks network in Latin America
Avient has opened a new Colorworks Design & Technology Centre in the Mexico City area. The new facility, which strengthens the company’s ability to offer colour design services to customers in the Latin America (LATAM) region, will complement an existing Colorworks centre in Itupeva, São Paulo, Brazil. The company said these facilities are a source of ideas, inspiration, and technical guidance. “With the addition of our Mexico site, we will be more accessible to custom- ers in the Mexico and Central America
regions and as a result, offer more opportunities for onsite collaboration to help streamline product development,” said Allan Bojorge, General Manager, North LATAM at Avient. The new location will offer Colour,
Material, and Finish (CMF) trend consultation, in-person or virtual colour development, and rapid prototyping, allowing customers to work directly with Colorworks teams in the early stages of product development to shorten their time to market, control costs, and manage colour consistently. �
www.avient.com
Huntsman opens innovation centre at Belgian location
US polyurethanes company Huntsman has opened an innovation centre in Tienen, Belgium, strengthening its R&D capabilities and reinforcing its commitment to customers in the region. The new 11,000 m² facility comprises an analytical laboratory, two machine halls, and fully
equipped and automated product testing facilities. Together, these assets boost Huntsman’s ability to carry out product development from formulation of ideas at lab scale through to the manufacture of novel systems and trial samples. The centre, staffed by more than 100 scientists
from the company’s Polyure- thanes and Performance Products businesses, will support the application of Huntsman technologies in key markets including adhesives, coatings and sealants, automotive, elastomers, energy, furniture and bedding, and insulation. �
www.huntsman.com
Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim to collaborate at Indian project
Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim, both operating companies of Hillenbrand, are collaborating on a plant for PET bottle-to-bottle recycling for Indian preform and packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer.
In addition to mechanical processing of used PET
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bottles, the recycling system encompasses all process steps leading up to extru- sion with a ZSK twin screw extruder, including pelletis- ing and a Solid State Polycondensation (SSP) reactor. The system is designed for a throughput of 5,500
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kg/h and will deliver PET recyclate that is approved by the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for direct contact with food. �
www.coperion.com �
www.herbold.com �
www.magnumgroup.in
Neste and MC form partnership
Neste and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) are establishing a strategic partnership focusing on developing value chains for renewable chemicals and plastics for and with Japanese brands, target- ing the food and bever- age, apparel, and consum- er electronic industries. Neste will provide
expertise in sustainability and the use of more sustainable materials, including renewable Neste RE, while MC brings region-specific experience in business development and supply chain manage- ment. The two companies have co-operated on several projects in the past. �
www.neste.com �
www.mitsubishicorp.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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