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Fainplast ups HFX
BASF kicks off its $10bn Chinese verbund project with ETPs and TPU
BASF breaks ground on China ETP expansion
BASF has officially launched its verbund project at Zhanjiang in China’s Guang- dong province, the first part of a $10bn investment project it announced in July 2018. The first plants are now under construction and will produce engineering plastics and TPU for the Chinese and wider Asian markets. By 2022, BASF said the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional 60,000
Cabot grows in Indonesia
Cabot has broken ground on its previously an- nounced carbon black capacity expansion project at Cilegon in Indonesia. Due for completion in
2021, the project will add about 80,000 tonnes/yr of capacity for the South-East Asian market, where demand is said to growing at 4-5% annually. The move is part of a
global expansion and debottlenecking project. �
www.cabot-corp.com
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tonnes/year in China, bringing its total capacity in the Asia-Pacific region to 290,000 tonnes. Production is aimed at the automotive, electronics and new energy vehicles industries. Completion of the
Chinese verbund chemical production operation (verbund means interlinked) is due in 2030. Ultimately, the site will be BASF’s third largest after its existing locations in Ludwigshafen in
Germany and Antwerp in Belgium. The project will use advanced technologies, including automated packaging and robot guided vehicles. This will make it “a role model for sustainable production contributing to the development of a circular economy in China,” according to Dr Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Executive Board of BASF. �
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capacity Italian compounder Fainplast has started up the first of two new lines for production of its HFX range of halogen-free, flame retardant and cross-linkable polyolefins for the cable industry. The company said that the second of the two lines is expected to be in production before the end of the year. Together, the new equipment will double its capacity for the HFX product lines. HFX compounds are
produced using Sioplas post-extrusion moisture crosslinking technology. The PE-based materials are said to be suitable for production of halogen-free flame retardant cables for operation at elevated temperatures. �
www.fainplast.com
Clariant laser tags without ATO
Working with laser technol- ogy company Coherent, Clariant has introduced a new system for moulding and laser-marking TPU ear tags used for identifying cattle and other livestock. The company has
replaced the traditional laser marking formulations based on antimony trioxide (ATO) with a patented additive masterbatch that uses an alternative metalloid chemical plus an enhancing agent. The masterbatch is designed to be used at a dosing level 2-4%.
Unmodified TPU is essentially transparent to near-infrared laser light, so an additive is required to produce the carbonisation and/or foaming reactions
Clariant is offering an ATO-free laser marking additive for TPU
required to make a laser mark. ATO is effective and commonly used but is a classified by ECHA as a suspected carcinogen. �
www.clariant.com
December 2019 | COMPOUNDING WORLD 5
IMAGE: BASF
IMAGE: CLARIANT
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