NEWS Kraiburg adds capacity in Europe
Kraiburg TPE has started up a new extrusion line for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) at its headquarters site in Waldkraiburg, Germany. The investment brings the company’s total capacity to 56,000 tonnes/year – 36,000 tonnes at the German site and 10,000 tonnes each at its produc- tion sites at Buford in Georgia, US, and Kuala
Memolex acquired by Krahn
Krahn Chemie has ac- quired the French plastic additives distributor Memolex, which it has renamed Krahn France. Krahn Managing
Director Axel Sebbesse described the move as a “strategically important acquisition” that would enable the group to expand in the French market. The existing Memolex team has been retained and the firm will continue to operate out of its site near Paris. �
www.krahn.de
Lumpur, Malaysia. Kraiburg said demand for TPEs is increasing world- wide, “showing constant growth in the automotive, industry, consumer and medical markets”. It said the new capacity will guarantee its ability to deliver its TPE products, which include the Thermolast, Copec, Hipex and For Tec brands. �
www.kraiburg-tpe.com
Duromer targets water sector with polyketone compounds
Australian compounder Duromer Products has extended its range of polyketone compounds with a new glass-filled polyke- tone grade that carries US NSF 61 Commercial Hot 82° certification. The Durateck PK10G
grade was developed for a specific project for an undisclosed customer but is now available as a standard. It has a glass content of 10% and is said to offer very good hydrolysis and chemical resistance, tensile strength, toughness, and low levels of impurities.
According to Duromer
Products General Manager Andrew Stewart, the new grade is expected to find applications where PES, PPSU or PEEK has previously been required to withstand long term hot water expo- sure. Already certified to the US NSF standard, he said the company is midway through certification to the Australian AS/NZS 4020. Duromer’s site at Prestons in New South Wales has three twin screw compound- ing lines producing mostly engineering compounds. Its annual capacity is around
9,000 tonnes. The company also claims to be the only Long Fibre Thermoplastic (LFT) producer in Australia, running a pultrusion line with an annual capacity of 2,200 tonnes. That uses Plasticomp technology and produces LGF PP, PA and TPU products with glass contents ranging from 20-70%. Duromer also operates a standalone masterbatch business in Vietnam – Duro- Colour Vietnam – supplying into the local market and to Indonesia and Malaysia. �
www.duromer.com
UK’s Enva Group buys WEEE recycler Blue Sky
Enva Group, a UK and Ireland-based supplier of waste management and waste materials services, has acquired Blue Sky Plastic Recycling (BSP) for an undisclosed sum. BSP will become the fifth operating unit within Enva Group and will continue to be led by its Managing Director and main share- holder, Chris Riddle.
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Based in Bourne in Lincolnshire, UK, BSP is focused on recovering plastics mainly from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and reformulating it into regrind and compounds by means of its advanced separation technologies. These tech- nologies are said to be “a new strategi- cally important dimension” for Enva.
COMPOUNDING WORLD | February 2018 Formerly known as DCC Environ-
mental, Enva was bought out by Exponent Private Equity and its management team in a deal worth over €225m in June 2017. The com- pany also owns the William Tracey Group, Wastecycle, Enva Ireland and Oakwood Recycling. �
https://enva.com/
www.compoundingworld.com
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