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needs, helping customers to meet indoor air quality certifications, sustainability requirements and produce products that are SVHC free, all while meeting performance targets,” says Brenda Hollo, Business Director Stabilizers at the company. Its high performance stabilisers include Ca/Zn powders and liquids without the use of regulated ingredients and can be made to be ultra-low and phenol free. Recent developments include Therm-Chek
VT382L, a liquid phenol-free and SVHC-free grade intended for flexible calendering applications requiring very good early colour. And as a tin alternative in rigid applications, the Therm-Chek VT 428P family of solid Ca/Zn stabilisers are said to be optimised for full or partial replacement. Valtris Therm-Chek stabilisers designed for
heavily filled base layers in LVT (luxury vinyl tile) applications offer good processing while reducing VOCs, critical for customers to meet requirements of indoor air quality certification, Hollo says. The Therm-Chek VT 420P family of solid Ca/Zn stabilis- ers is pitched at flexible LVT, as well as rigid core WPC (wood plastic composite) and SPC (stone plastic composite) applications. The products provide lubrication and stability performance with no VOCs. The company’s Therm-Chek VT 328L, which is liquid phenol-free and SVHC-free, can be combined with Therm-Chek VT 329P to produce an LVT wear layer with very high clarity. Valtris Specialty Chemicals owner HIG Capital said in May it is to sell Valtris to an affiliate of funds managed by SK Capital Partners. In a statement, HIG said that since the company’s carve-out from Ferro Corporation in late 2014 it had considerably extended its geographic reach, customer breadth and product portfolio — the company acquired Akcros Chemicals in the US and UK in 2016 and multiple INEOS Enterprises business units in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 2018. Valtris CEO Paul Angus says: “SK’s investment is a strong validation of our company and talented team and launches an exciting new chapter for Valtris.”
Expanding capacity Late last year, Baerlocher said it would install additional mixing and granulation units this year at its production plant at Bury in the UK to increase capacity for calcium-based PVC stabilisers by more than 50%. “This expansion will support the strong demand in all new and recycled PVC applications and reinforces the company’s commitment to the ‘post Brexit’ UK and Irish markets,” the company said. “For the past 25 years, the Bury site has estab- lished itself as the premier solid PVC stabiliser production plant in the UK,” says Andy Jones, the
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group’s Global PVC Additives Head. “This expan- sion begins the next chapter for the company, as we approach our 50th anniversary in the UK during 2023, with an increasingly challenging regulatory framework and complexity in supply chains.” Andrew Tate, Baerlocher’s Head of PVC Addi- tives EU/MEA, says the capacity increase delivers on customer needs for local security of supply, product consistency and speed of response, and will also support the anticipated new demand for solid Ca-based systems, due to increasing regula- tory pressure to convert from existing liquid stabilisers, in many PVC applications. The announcement was made a few months
after Baerlocher embarked on an expansion of its production site at Dewas in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. This new production facility will have a capacity of 30,000 tonnes/yr and will exclusively produce Ca-based PVC stabilisers. A previous expansion at the stie was completed only a little over a year earlier. Jayen Modi, Managing Director of Baerlocher
India Additives, says the company will focus on investing only in calcium-based stabiliser capacity while continuing to provide choice for convertors with traditional systems to enable their transition towards sustainable calcium-based stabiliser systems for all PVC applications. “The PVC industry globally is under varying stages of transition to more sustain- able additive solutions,” he says. “We want to be ready when our customers decide to convert their products away from using traditional stabilisers.” In January this year, Songwon announced it had
entered an exclusive PVC additives partnership covering Latin America with Omya, a leading distributor of specialty chemicals. Omya will provide marketing and sales, customer service as well as distribution and logistics for Songwon’s PVC product lines across the Latin American region. “With its extensive distribution network, strong service capabilities and solid reputation, we are confident that the Omya team can drive Songwon’s PVC business in this region and that our Latin American customers will receive excellent support and service,” says Joe Vermeersch, Sales Manager TPU, TIN and PVC at Songwon International Americas.
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