NEWS Premix to build first US plant
The US Department of Defense, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $79.9m contract to Premix Inc – the US subsidiary of Finland’s Premix Group – to establish a plastic compound manufacturing plant in North Carolina. The facility will primarily produce electrically conductive plastic materials for use in diagnostic testing. It will be built in Gaston County and is planned to be operational by September 2025. Premix Group is a leading player in electrically conductive plastic com- pounds. During the Covid-19 pandem- ic the company supplied electrically
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Krahn Chemie is to distribute UPM Biochemi- cals’ BioMotion renewable functional fillers (RFFs) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The deal covers the BioMotion X10, X20 and X40 product grades for use in plastics and other markets. RFFs are said to be a new category of functional fillers made from sustainably sourced and certified hardwood.
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PVC industry recycling initiative VinylPlus has released its activity report for 2021showing that 810,775 tonnes of PVC waste was recycled into new products, equivalent to 26.9% of the total generated in the EU-27+3 countries. The report further details VinylPlus achievements in increasing sustainability performance and use of PVC.
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conductive plastic resin for manufac- turing pipette tips used in diagnostic equipment. The increased production capacity will result in material sufficient to make pipette tips for more than 200m COVID-19 PCR tests each month. “The new capacity will improve
Premix’s global supply capability and mitigate risks in global supply chains,” says Jari-Matti Mehto, President and CEO of Premix, Inc. “With the new US factory, we will improve our ability to serve our customers in the important US market.” �
www.premixgroup.com
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conductive compound produced by Premix
EU recycling edges ahead
Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE), the association representing reprocessors of plastic waste in Europe, said total installed plastics recycling capacity in the EU27+3 countries grew by 13% from 2019 to 2020 to 1.1m tonnes. “The new figures show
that the plastics recycling industry remains resilient while continuing its path towards making plastics genuinely circular,” PRE said.
“The exceptional growth in the sector, despite the difficulties brought on by the pandemic, was possible thanks to the booming demand driven, among others, by the new legisla- tive targets,” the association said.
PET, flexible polyolefins and rigid HDPE and PP account for 80% of the total, with the latter seeing the highest (more than 20%) growth in capacity in 2020.
PRE estimated that flexible polyolefins capacity grew by 10%. “Comprehensive legisla- tive support would unlock additional collection and high-quality sorting ton- nages while incentivising investments in recycling technologies and infrastruc- tures, leading to a tripling of plastics recycling capacities by 2030,” according to the association. �
www.plasticsrecyclers.eu
TotalEnergies aims to go circular
TotalEnergies and Vanheede Environment Group have signed a long-term commer- cial agreement for supply of post-consumer recycled (PCR) raw material as feedstock for the production of circular polymers for durable applications. Under the deal, Van-
heede Polymers & Com- pounds will supply TotalEn- ergies with PCR from its
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sites in France and Belgium, including its facility at Dottignies where a new plastic waste treatment facility is currently under construction. “This new agreement is
an important step in securing high quality post-consumer raw materi- als. It will allow us to accelerate our growth in recycled polymers and
develop new projects to reach our ambition of producing 30% circular polymers by 2030”, said Valérie Goff, SVP of Poly- mers at TotalEnergies. TotalEnergies’ Synova subsidiary is currently doubling its automotive PP recycling capacity to 45,000 tonnes/year. �
www.totalenergies.com �
www.vanheede.com
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IMAGE: PREMIX GROUP
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