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Teijin’s site at Ayutthaya in Thailand Teijin to compound in Thailand
Japan’s Teijin plans to build a 10,000 tonnes/yr resin compounding plant and related R&D facility for customer technical support at its site in Ayutthaya, central Thailand. The company said the move will give it “a framework for responding faster to demands in the ASEAN region”. The compounding plant, which will cost about $13 million to build, should begin operations in mid-
2019 and will be built on a 6,000m2
site with capacity to
allow future production expansion depending on demand growth. The R&D facility, meanwhile, will be the company’s third in Asia, complementing existing sites in Japan and China. Thailand has been at the
heart of Teijin’s polyester fibre production for more than 50 years; the company set up a subsidiary in Bangkok in September 2013
Repsol making high impact copolymers
Coperion’s new service centre at Jubail in Saudi Arabia
Repsol of Spain has produced high impact PP copolymers for the first time. The resins will be marketed under the Repsol ImpactO brand, both in their basic PP form and as base polymers for high impact compounds used in the automotive sector and for technical parts and compounds. The ImpactO range is specifically designed to comply with the automotive market’s need for low VOC emissions and weight reduction for fuel savings. Repsol said it is already seeking to add low temperature, high impact grades to the range for interior parts, such as door panels and dashboards, plus items like shopping trolleys, suitcases and child re- straints systems for cars and bicycles. �
www.repsol.energy
10 COMPOUNDING WORLD | March 2018
Coperion ups service in Middle East region
Coperion Middle East has officially inaugurated its service centre at Jubail in Saudi Arabia. The facility, which has been in operation since September 2017, covers 1,400m2
and includes an 800m2 workshop for die plate, extruder
barrel and screw elements servicing and rotary and diverter valve maintenance. The centre also holds a spare part inventory for supply throughout the region. Coperion, which supplies compounding, feeding and bulk materials handling systems, has been present in Saudi Arabia for 30 years. It established Coperion Middle East in 2011. �
www.coperion.com
www.compoundingworld.com
to handle sales. Teijin has also launched its Solfiga brand of high- performance polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) compounds. Full-scale production will begin at its site in Mihara, near Hiroshima in Japan, this summer. In time, these compounds will also be produced at the company’s sites in China and Thailand. The Solfiga products are
targeted mainly at automo- tive and electronic applica-
tions. They draw on the proprietary PPS resin technologies of Initz, Teijin’s joint venture with SK Chemicals of Korea, and its own material and com- pound technologies such as aramid and carbon fibres and speciality polycarbon- ate resin. The Initz JV was founded in 2013 to make PPS compounds at a 12,000 tonnes/yr plant at Seongnam. �
www.teijin.com
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PHOTO: COPERION
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