NEWS Songwon teams up with Uniwel
South Korea’s Songwon Industrial has announced a strategic co-operation agreement with JiangSu Uniwel Chemistry to develop and manufacture PVC stabilisers for sale under their respective brand names. Philippe Schlaepfer,
Executive Vice President of Songwon’s Performance Chemicals division, said the alliance will give the company “immediate access to state-of-the-art production of liquid and solid mixed-metal stabilisers and competitive Chinese
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European ABS and butadiene styrene producer ELIX Polymers has joined Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), which aims to develop chemical recycling technologies for styrenic plastics waste. Existing members of SCS include COEXPAN, INEOS Styrolution, Repsol, Total, Trinseo and Versalis (Eni).
www.elix-polymers.com
www.styrenics-circular-solutions.com
Celanese recorded a reserve of $88m in Q4 2019 following an update by the European Commission into a competition law investigation, opened in 2017, into past ethylene purchases made by a number of its subsidiaries. It said it continues to cooperate with the Commission.
www.celanese.com
10 Uniwel stabiliser deal gives Songwon better access to Chinese market
raw materials”. Songwon will retain its
PVC stabiliser production in South Korea, which it says will be needed to meet rising demand in South-East
and South Asia. Uniwel produces a broad
range of PVC heat stabilisers for a wide variety of end products, including window profiles, pipes and fittings,
indoor decoration boards, rigid foam boards, stone- plastic-composite floorings, films, leathers, wires & cables. �
www.songwon.com
Ineos Styrolution to build 600kt world-scale ABS plant in China
Ineos Styrolution is to build a world-scale, 600,000 tonnes/year ABS plant at Ningbo in China. The facility will be placed
on a greenfield site adjacent to an existing polystyrene plant, one of two in China Ineos Styrolution acquired under a year ago. Construction is planned to start in 2020 and be completed in 2023. The new plant will
produce material for customers in China, which is the world’s largest ABS market, but will also supply across the Asia-Pacific region. n Separately, Ineos Styrolution has announced that it and Agilyx, which converts post-consumer plastics to low-carbon fuels, chemicals and plastics, are to move forward with engineering and design of a recycling facility for PS in
Channahon, Illinois, US. The decision follows a successful development programme that qualified Agilyx’s chemical recycling technology, which breaks PS down to its base monomers, can meet Ineos Styrolution’s specifications. The facility will convert up to 100 tonnes/ day of post-consumer PS into “styrene product.” �
www.ineos-styrolution.com �
www.agilyx.com
Birla Carbon looks to nano
Carbon black producer Birla Carbon and ChasmAdvanced Materials, a US-based specialist in printed electronics materials and battery materials, have agreed to develop and manufacture hybrid nanomaterials based on carbon substrates and carbon nanotubes. These will be targeted at multiple market segments. “The combination of Chasm’s expertise in
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nanotube enhancement and our deep knowledge of carbon substrates and applications offers us the chance to rapidly advance our understanding of these high-performance, scalable nanomaterials,” said Birla Carbon CEO Dr Santrupt B Misra Chasm acquired Southwest
NanoTechnologies in 2015. �
www.birlacarbon.com
www.compoundingworld.com
IMAGE: SONGWON
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