NEWS
Mitsui to compound in Europe
Japan’s Mitsui Chemical and Prime Polymer, its 65-35 venture with Idemitsu Kosan, have agreed to establish a new European company to manufacture and market PP compounds. Mitsui Prime Advanced
Composites Europe will be based at the Chemelot Industrial Park in Limburg, Netherlands, and should begin operations in June 2020. It will have an annual capacity of 30,000 tonnes. Mitsui Chemical
identifies automotive as a key target market and said the investment recognises the growing use of PP compounds in lightweight automotive external and internal parts. �
www.mitsuichem.com
Sirmax invests in Poland; makes first move in TPEs
Italian-headquartered Sirmax is to build a second compounding plant in Poland. The €30m facility will be built on a 60,000m2 site in the Lodz economic zone at Kutno and will expand capacity for the company’s existing com- pounded products as well as supporting its first move into the TPE market. The new plant will be
located close to the com- pany’s original Polish facility, which opened in 2006 and has a capacity of around 80,000 tonnes of PP compounds. It will include a 12,000 m2
and 10,000 m2
production area warehouse
and will produce technical polymers based on polyam- ides, ABS and polycarbon- ate, plus long glass fibre- reinforced and
The existing Sirmax PP compounding plant at Kutno
self-extinguishing PP compounds. It will also produce SEBS and SBS TPEs and TPVs. “We want to be globally
present and, with the full range of our products, at the service of our large global customers in the automotive and household appliance sectors,” said Sirmax CEO
Sorting cost of NIR pigments
UK-based Colour Tone has launched a new generation of “competitively-priced” near-infrared (NIR) detectable masterbatch- es that meet recyclability concerns for single-use black plastic tubs, trays and films. Plastics coloured with carbon-black cannot be “seen” by the NIR technology used in commercial waste sorting operations. These new master- batches overcome this problem. The first two grades are
targeted primarily at polypro- pylene but can be applied to other polymers. The company said NIR black 958884 meets EU
www.compoundingworld.com
food contact legislation requirements. NIR black 95893 supports applications that meet the US FDA Code of Federal Regula- tions’ criteria at up to 10% dosage (which it claims is a first for an NIR-detectable black masterbatch). Colour Tone Director Tony Gaukr- oger said price has been a barrier to wide adoption of NIR-detecta- ble black masterbatches. However, he said the NIR black 958884 grade is priced 60% below the cost quoted in the first commer- cialisation project study for thes products carried out by UK waste reduction organisation WRAP.
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www.colourtone-masterbatch.co.uk
and President Massimo Pavin. Construction of the new facility will begin in August this year. The company, which expects to achieve sales of around €300m during 2018, said it expects to begin production at the plant in the second quarter of 2019. �
www.sirmax.it
Perstorp in 3D print JV
Swedish speciality chemi- cals company Perstorp has joined with 3D4Makers, a Dutch producer of high performance 3D printing filaments, to create a new 3D print materials joint venture in the Netherlands – ElogioAM. The first products from the new venture will include Facilan C8 com- postable PLA and Facilan PCL 100 polycaprolactone filaments. �
www.perstorp.com �
www.3d4makers.com
June 2018 | COMPOUNDING WORLD 7
PHOTO: SIRMAX
PHOTO: COLOUR TONE
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