NEWS
Tecnaro doubles up in bioplastics production
Tecnaro, a specialist producer of renewable plastics compounds, has doubled capacity at its Ilsfeld-Auenstein facility in
Germany with the installa- tion of a new ZE Basic 62 twin-screw extruder from KraussMaffei Berstorff. The new line has a
Tecnaro CEOs Helmut Nägele (left) and Jürgen Pfitzer with the new investment
maximum output rate of 800 kg/h. The company said it has made the investment to meet anticipated growth in demand for alternative plastics compounds at larger volumes. Tecnaro’s products include Arboform lignin- based compounds for loudspeakers, musical instruments, toys, design objects and urns, and Arboblend optionally biodegradable raw materi- als for packaging, office supplies, household items, films, sheets and semi-fin- ished products. �
www.tecnaro.de
Albis growing in healthcare
Germany-based multina- tional compounder Albis Plastic is expanding its portfolio to include custom- ised compounds for healthcare applications, such as medical products, pharmaceutical packaging and diagnostic applications. The new products, which
are based on a range of polymers with mineral, glass fibre and barium sulphate
additives, will be grouped under the Alcom Med brand and will be produced on a new self-contained produc- tion line the company is installing at its Hamburg site. The line will operate to medical industry-compliant quality management standards. “We are seeing a continu-
ously growing demand from the processing industry for
compounds that both comply with the regulatory requirements and offer customer specific material solutions,” said Mike Freudenstein, Director of Marketing for Healthcare. “Our investment will enable us to be flexible even with small quantities whilst also being able to deliver worldwide.” �
www.albis.com
Carolina Color ups capacity
US-based colour concentrate specialist Carolina Color has installed a new extruder from NFM Welding Engineers to meet growing demand for its G2 and G3 products. Carolina Color COO Jeff Smink said the company has relied on NFM for the extru- sion equipment at its two plants in North
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Carolina and Ohio for the past 15 years “because these machines are very reliable and capable of extruding the highest quality material we need”. The TEM Series Extruder uses a co-rotat-
ing, intermeshing twin-screw manufactured under licence from Toshiba Machine Japan. �
www.carolinacolor.com
NEWS IN BRIEF...
Italy-based Fimic, together with US-based Zimmer America Recycling Solutions, has installed an RAS500 melt filter at the Aaron Industries plant at Leominster in Massachus- setts, US, to process recycled PP. The filter is equipped with a 35 mesh punched screen and is running at rates of up to 900 kg/h. �
www.fimic.it �
www.zars-usa.com
Austria’s Gabriel-Chemie has broken ground on a 27,500m2
site at Vorsino,
near Moscow, in the first phase of a major expan- sion of its masterbatch production capacity in Russia. The company is investing around €5.5m in the project, which will add an additional 2,000 tonnes of capacity at the site. Capacity will eventually be lifted to 20,000 tonnes. �
www.gabriel-chemie.com
Ineos has announced plans to build a €2.7bn world scale ethane cracker and propane dehydroge- nation plant at an as yet undetermined location on the north-west coast of Europe. The project will be its biggest ever single investment. “This new investment builds on the huge investment we made in bringing US shale gas to Europe and will ensure the long-term future of our European chemical plants,” said Ineos Founder and Chairman Jim Ratcliffe. �
www.ineos.com
www.compoundingworld.com
PHOTO: KRAUSSMAFFEI BERSTORFF
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