NEWS
IN BRIEF...
German compounder PETEC Rust und Brune has taken delivery of a new plantetary roller extruder from ENTEX Rust & Mische at its plant at Bochum. The TP-WE 150/5400-M6 is equipped with six modules that can be configured for a variety of applications, including compounds with heavy filler loadings, natural fibre products, preparation of recyclates, and reactive extrusion.
www.petec-cs.de www.entex.de
Beon3D is a new line of PP compounds from Lyondell- Basell formulated for additive manufacturing applications. The grades are said to combine easy processability in extrusion- based 3Dprint manufactur- ing equipment with high hydrophobicity, good acoustic and optical performance, high dimen- sional stability and high surface quality.
www.lyondellbasell.com
Zeppelin buys MTI Mixers
Above: Detmold, Germany-based MTI is now part of Zeppelin Systems
German plant engineering group Zeppelin Systems has acquired mixing machinery maker MTI Mischtechnik, which went into administra- tion in October last year. Zeppelin said the deal includes MTI’s product line, employees and its plant at Detmold. It said the busi- ness will continue to manufacture at Detmold but will be integrated with Zeppelin’s Kassel-based Mixing Technologies division, which was estab- lished in 2009 through the acquisition of Reimelt Henschel and is headed by
Dr Stephan Poller. MTI Managing Director and former owner Christian Honemeyer has not joined Zeppelin. “With this acquisition, we
are further expanding our market position in mixing technology,” said Rochus Hofmann, Managing Director of Zeppelin Systems. “MTI has great products and an excellent service concept that will benefit us and our customers.”
Hofmann said the MTI
product range comple- ments its own. “The overlap of the portfolio is small,” he
said. MTI has a particularly strong presence in the European and US PVC mixing market; Zeppelin is stronger in the powder coat- ing, compounding and masterbatch sectors. MTI sales amounted to
around €7m in 2018. A spokesperson for Zeppelin said it did not expect the business to reach that level this year but said it esti- mates the acquired business will expand its Mixing Technologies sector sales by around 25%. �
www.zeppelin.com �
www.mti-mixer.de
Polyplastic adds two more lines in Russia
Russian compounder R&P Polyplastic is investing more than €3.3m to expand capacity at its plant at Engels in Russia. Two new lines based on KraussMaffei ZE 80 42D BluePower twin-screw extruders will be installed this year, with an expected start date set for the autumn. Polyplastic says the move is a response to growing demand for engineered compounds in Russia. It will use the new lines to manufacture products for the construction industry. “Faced with a continuously increasing demand, we have to
Above: R&P Polyplastic is installing two more lines at its Engels plant in Russia
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ensure energy-efficient and resource-conserving production while meeting the ever more exacting quality standards requested by our customers,” said Director Andrej Menschov. �
www.polyplastic-compounds.ru �
www.kraussmaffei.com
www.compoundingworld.com
IMAGE: R&P POLYPLASTIC
IMAGE: ZEPPELIN SYSTEMS
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