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The Biocidal Products Committee of the Euro- pean Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has decided not to support approval of four antimicrobials for product- type 4 (food and feed) area applications: silver zinc zeolite, silver zeolite, silver copper zeolite, and silver sodium hydrogen zirco- nium phosphate.
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Prince International is to acquire Ferro in an all-share deal that is expected to close in Q1 2022, subject to and regulatory shareholder approval. The deal values the firm at about $2.1bn and will see it combine with ChromaFlo Technologies.
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Farrel Pomini has invested in WF Recycle-Tech, a UK company with a pyrolysis system for recycling end-of-life tyres. It means WF will able to use its continuous mixing technol- ogy “to create a solid platform within the pyrolysis sector”. Farrel Pomini’s R&D team will optimise compounding applications using recov- ered carbon black.
www.wfrecycle-tech.com
www.farrel-pomini.com
ECHA withdraws lead pigment restrictions
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) last month withdrew its twice-delayed intention to restrict certain lead chromate pigments (CI Pigment Yellow 34 and CI Pigment Red 104) saying it is unable to complete the required REACH Annex XV restriction dossier until the European Commission has determined a decision-mak- ing route on proposed restrictions on the use of lead stabilisers in PVC. The Commission had put
forward a proposal — based on a 2016 ECHA Annex XV restriction report — that set lead limits in recycled PVC above virgin norms to allow legacy products containing higher levels of lead stabilisers, to be reprocessed at end-of-life. That proposal, however, was voted down in the European Parliament in February of 2020. ECHA said that while its pigment restriction has a wider scope it is interlinked with the Commission’s PVC stabiliser proposal as both consider use of lead in plastics and both identify release at end-of-life as the main potential source of
Above: Pigment decision impacted by European Parliament rejection of recycled PVC stabiliser limits
emissions. “Therefore, policy discussions on lead in PVC are expected to have an impact on the underpinning analysis presented in the lead chromates dossier,” accord- ing to a spokesperson. ECHA said the pigment
restriction proposal could be further affected by a ruling in the European Court of Justice in February of this year against a Swedish challenge to the Commission’s 2016 decision to authorise use of the same pigments in certain safety- critical applications where alternatives were not deemed to be available. “The deliberations
following this case may also
have an impact on the restriction as it was made under Article 69(2) of REACH and is therefore complementary to the authorisations,” the spokes- person said. The Commission has yet to determine a way to address the Parliament decision on lead stabilisers. An official told Compound- ing World it intends to “find the right balance” between minimising substances that pose potential health and environmental problems in recycled materials while meeting its circular econo- my and carbon neutrality ambitions. �
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Arkema acquires compounder Agiplast
Arkema is to acquire Italy-based technical compounder Agiplast. The company, which operates two produc- tion plants and generates sales of around €15m, offers an extensive range of high performance polymer com- pounds, including speciality recycled PA and fluoropolymers grades.
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Arkema has worked with Agiplast since 2019, when they jointly launched the Virtucycle programme for collec- tion and regeneration of high perfor- mance polymers. Arkema said the acquisition will enable it to “offer a full service to customers in terms of materials
circularity, addressing growing market expectations in this field”. It said it will also make it the first fully integrated high performance polymer manufac- turer to offer both bio-based and recycled materials. �
www.arkema.com �
www.agiplast-compounding.com
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