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Domo Chemicals sells film to up focus on PA
Germany’s Domo Chemi- cals is to sell its Italy-based Domo Films Solutions (DFS) business to the European subsidiary of India’s Jindal Films. The deal is expected to close in Q1, subject to required regulatory approvals. According to Domo Chemicals CEO Yves Bonte, the move will allow the company to “concentrate in its competence area of polymers and engineered materials.”
Domo bolstered its polyamides business in 2019 with the acquisition of Solvay’s PA66 production activities in Europe, sold by BASF to gain regulatory approval for its acquisition
product line (albeit with a time-limited restriction to Europe.) This month Domo announced it was preparing to rebrand all of its PA products under the Technyl banner and commence global sales from February 2022.
DFS is one of the largest
Above: Domo Chemicals CEO Yves Bonte
of Solvay’s global polyam- ide activities. That move roughly doubled the size of Domo’s polyamide polymers and compounds activities and included the Technyl
European producers of biaxially oriented and cast PA films for flexible packag- ing in the food, pharma, medical and other industrial sectors. Jindal said the business will complement its existing capabilities in polyolefin-based films for the pharma, medical and other high end flexible packaging segments. �
www.domochemicals.com
Barlog re-merges design unit
German compounder and distributor Barlog Plastics has re-integrated its standalone materials formulation company Bahsys. “Bahsys GmbH was founded around 12
years ago as an independent company in order to sharply separate the service competence bundled in it from the previous
materials business”, said Boris Korlatzki, Commercial Director of Barlog Plastics. “However, it turned out that the offers of both companies had to be much more closely intertwined in the interest of our customers than initially thought.” �
www.barlog.de
Plast/NPE shows hit by Covid
The ongoing Covid pandemic continues to impact the global plastics exhibition calendar, with NPE, the biggest show in the US, now cancelled and Italy’s Plast fair postponed. US-based Plastics Industry Association, organiser of NPE, an- nounced earlier this month that it had decided to cancel the event, which takes place every three years and was due to take place in Orlando in Florida on 17-21 May this year. The US show typically attracts close to 55,000 visitors and more than 2,000 exhibitors. Meanwhile, in late December last year, Plast show organiser Promaplast announced that the 2021 event in Milan, Italy, was to be rescheduled from 4-7 May to 22-25 June. The show also takes place on a three-year cycle and attracts around 50,000 visitors. �
www.npe.org �
www.plastonline.org
Useon delivers in Russia
Chinese extrusion machinery maker Useon commissioned a twin screw compounding system last year for a Russian producer of polyolefin steel pipe coating materials. The line is built around an Useon SAT series 175mm diameter extruder with a 1,850kW Elin motor, Siemens drive and Zambello gearbox. It provides an output of 5 tonnes/hr. The complete line includes storage silos, seven-compo-
This Useon extruder is in production in Russia 14 COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2021
nent Brabender loss-in-weight feeding system, melt filter, BKG underwear strand pelletiser, classifier, and packaging equipment. �
www.useon.com
www.compoundingworld.com
IMAGE: USEON
IMAGE: DOMO CHEMICALS
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