NEWS Clariant installs medical line in US
Clariant has started up a new com- pounding line at its facility at Lewin- ston, in Maine in the US, that will allow it to offer faster delivery of large (3,000-6,000kg) batches of its Mevopur pre-coloured medical compounds. The new line, which includes a twin
screw compounding extruder, materi- als handling and weighing stations, is the final element in a major investment at the site that has seen it expanded by 40%. It follows the installation last year of a smaller line for production of fluoropolymer compounds such as FEP, ETFE and PVDF. The Lewiston plant is one of three global Clariant sites capable of producing materials for medical devices and pharmaceutical packaging (the others are located at Malmö in
Birla Carbon appoints for
EMEA
colour and white masterbatch and compound ranges to bring them into full compliance with the new USP 661.1 standard for pharmaceutical packaging and drug delivery devices. USP 661.1comes into effect in May
Sweden and Singapore). “Demand continues to grow worldwide for these specialised compounds and master- batches,” said Eric Rohr, North America Segment Manager, Medical and Pharmaceutical for the company. Separately, Clariant announced that it has completed testing of ingredients used in its Mevopur and Remafin-EP
2020. Clariant said it has acted now to future-proof any packaging launched in the interim and to be able to offer data to support the ICH-Q3D guide- lines for risk assessment. Replacing the current USP 661, the new standard modernises testing and enforces more robust risk assessment. Food contact statements that have long been used to support the use of many materials in drug packaging will be deemed ‘insufficient’ to support their future use, Clariant said. �
www.clariant.com/mevopur
Mexichem pays $39m for Sylvin
Carbon black supplier Birla Carbon, a subsidiary of India’s Aditya Birla, has named John Davidson as its new President for Europe and Africa. He will report to COO John Loudermilk.
Davidson has more than
28 years of industry experience. He joins Birla from Lanxess, where he led the Bromine & Derivatives business following its acquisition of Chemtura. �
www.birlacarbon.com
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Chemicals and plastic pipes group Mexichem has acquired Sylvin Technolo- gies, a niche PVC com- pounds manufacturer based in Denver, Pennsylvania, US, in a deal with an enterprise value of $39m on a debt- free basis. Sylvin posted sales of about $29m in 2017, mainly from the supply of PVC resin, plasticisers and stabilisers to
the wire and cable, electri- cal, industrial, automotive, medical and food products markets. It will become part of Mexichem’s Vinyl business group, which had sales of $2.2bn in the year to September 2017. This in turn is part of the Mexico-head- quarted company’s Com- pounds business unit, which supplies PVC compounds. Mexichem said Sylvin’s
customer-focused business model and application development capabilities will allow it to add greater value to US customers, while also bringing synergies in raw materials. CEO Antonio Carrillo called the move “a further step towards downstream integration in speciality products with higher margins”. �
www.mexichem.com
Carbodeon gains US nano approval
Silicon Sense, the US-based representative for nanotech- nology firm Carbodeon, said it has been granted registration by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to import the Finnish company’s detona- tion nanodiamonds for industrial purposes. Carbodeon’s detonation
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nanodiamond additives are said to be suitable for a number of industrial applications, including modification of thermal and electrical conductivity of polymer compounds. The new registration covers four product ranges – three mono-functionalised and one multi-functionalised.
The EPA has granted LVE
[Low Volume Exemption] registration for all Carbo- deon proprietary nanodia- mond materials currently supplied in the USA,” said James Meriano, Vice-Presi- dent of New Hampshire- based Silicon Sense. �
www.carbodeon.com �
www.siliconsense.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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