NEWS TITK opens €1.5m tech centre
The Thuringian Institute for Textile & Plastics Research Rudolstadt (TITK) in Ger- many has officially opened its new €1.5 million techni- cal centre, which is equipped with three Leistritz twin-screw extruders. The extruders will be used
in several projects, including development of isocyanate- free polyurethanes, special medical polymers, and biodegradable adhesives and foams. The extruders incorpo-
rate a number of special features. One is configured
Celanese goes bio for POM
Celanese has launched Hostaform POM Eco-B, a POM resin produced from renewable feedstocks and aimed at the growing demand for such materials from the automotive, consumer and medical device industries. POM Eco-B grades are
certified as containing up to 97% bio-content within the International Sustain- ability & Carbon Certifica- tion (ISCC) Plus system using a mass-balance
approach. It reduces CO2 content per kilogram of polymer by up to 1.15 (more than half). The introduction follows the launch last month of the company’s BlueRidge cellulosic pellets, which are based on cellulose acetate. �
www.celanese.com
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Left: TITK and Leistritz officials at the opening of the new €1.5m centre
with a melt recirculation facility, allowing the time the material spends in the processing section to be controlled. Another is
equipped to allow gases to be introduced directly into the melt. The most powerful of the three machines is config-
ured with an extended process section for reactive processing work and is equipped with Leistritz’s in-line rheometer. “This allows us to produce high-performance plastics that are used in medical technology as implants or as high-strength surgical nails, among other things,” says Reinemann. �
www.titk.de �
www.extruders.leistritz.com
Foster and Aran Biomedical work on implantable PP
Foster Corporation of the US, which com- pounds plastics for medical devices and general pharmaceutical applications, has partnered with Aran Biomedical of Galway, Ireland, which specialises in biomaterial products for implantable medical devices. Foster currently provides cleanroom compounding services to companies that require functionality compounded into permanently implantable materials such as
bioresorbable polymers, PEEK and polysul- phones. It will now add Aran’s ProTEX Med grade of PP to its offering. The two companies plan to work together
to market ProTEX Med, which is offered as a custom synthesised, permanently implant- able PP backed by FDA Master File refer- ence data and certified to ISO 10993-5. �
www.fosterpolymers.com �
www.aranbiomedical.com
Maag supplies DSM
As part of the ongoing modernisation and expansion of its compounding plant at Evansville, Indiana, US, DSM has installed an unsdisclosed number of Jet Stream
DSM has chosen Maag’s Jetstream pelletiser technology
Granulation (JSG) strand pelletising lines from Maag Group. JSG systems are fully automated from the die head, with any strand breaks being immedi-
ately fed back into the pelletiser during production. According to the company, this makes them “particularly popular for the pelletising of highly filled compounding products.” �
www.maag.com
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