NEWS
Production volumes up by 4.5% at R&P Polyplastic
Russian compounder R&P Polyplastic said it sold more than 80,000 tonnes of polymer compounds during 2018, up by 4.5% on the previous year. Managing Partner Andrey Menshov said
the growth had been achieved in the face of some key challenges. “Depreciation of the national currency led to an increase in prices of foreign raw materials. Another issue is the advanced growth of prices of basic poly- mers including polypropylene,” he said. The company said it had made “signifi-
cant progress” in its strategic plan to expand its export activity, citing a number of shipments to customers in the Baltic States and Western Europe. It also said it had commenced bulk deliveries to some local customers at the end of last year, allowing them to benefit from logistics savings. R&P Polyplastic supplies mostly PE, PP
and PA compounds to customers in the automotive, appliance and construction
Ampacet adds
capacity in Europe
Coperion compounding lines at R&P Polyplastic
industries (36%, 24% and 17% of its total production respectively). Batch sizes range from 5 to 60 tonnes. The company operates six Coperion compounding lines – a combination of STS and ZSK models – at its production sites at Engels and Togliatti and three ZSK lines at its R&D centre in Moscow. �
www.polyplastic-compounds.ru/eng
Readco launches lab scale mixer
US-based Readco Kurimoto has introduced the RK-1 continuous mixing proces- sor, a table-top laboratory- scale version of its propri- etary mixing design capable of throughputs of 4.5 kg/h.
The RK-1 features twin
shaft, co-rotating 25mm diameter screws set in a closed barrel and is said to be suitable for mixing, blending, reacting, crystal- lization, and/or encapsula-
tion applications. It com- bines heat transfer, mixing and shear to process multiple powdered, liquid and viscous ingredients in a single step. �
www.readco.com
Ampacet has announced the start-up of two new colour production lines at its site in Dudelange, Luxembourg. It has also expanded the R&D and colour labs at the site, adding new injection and blow moulding machines to speed up its colour matching services. The new capacity will
reduce lead times and increase flexibility for delivery of polyolefin- based colour masterbatch- es, the company said. One of the lines will be dedi- cated to production of engineering polymers. “Our focus is to provide high quality services and innovative solutions to our customers while reducing our impact on the environ- ment. The new lines are designed to support this goal,” said Marcello Bergamo, Managing Director Ampacet Europe. �
www.ampacet.com
Evonik expands PMMA compounding
Evonik has started up an additional line for compounding its Acrylite brand of PMMA moulding compounds at its site in Osceola, Arkansas, US. The expansion, originally announced in January last year,
near doubles the site’s capacity for the Acrylite compounds. The company said it has been made to meet growing demand for speciality acrylic-based compounds. Evonik claims that its Cyro Methacrylates business line is the only manufacturer with fully integrated MMA-PMMA production networks including downstream compounding in the Americas, Europe and Asia. �
www.evonik.com
10 COMPOUNDING WORLD | February 2019
Evonik officials cut the ribbon at the Osceola plant
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PHOTO: COPERION
PHOTO: EVONIK
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