NEWS
Record results at Nabaltec
Germany-haedquartered functional filler maker Nabaltec posted a near 6% increase in sales for last year to €168.6m and recorded a record EBIT result of €18.3m (up by 50% from €12.2m in 2016). The company said sales in its functional filler division were up by 2.8% to €112.2m and specialty alumina sales up 12.6% to €56.4m.
CEO Johannes Heck- mann said the 2017 result was particularly pleasing given the loss of revenues last year from its Nashtec business in the US. Production was halted last year to upgrade the facility, which was acquired by Nabaltec last year; production is expected to resume again in Q2 of this year.
Heckmann reconfirmed the company’s $12m plan to build a 30,000 tonnes/yr plant for production of refined alumina hydrox- ides at an as yet undis- closed US location for start up in mid 2019. �
www.nabaltec.de
RTP’s new plant in Poland will start up this summer
RTP to produce in Poland
US-headquartered com- pounder RTP Company is to open a 7,990 m2
facility at
Wroclaw in Poland, its third manufacturing operation in Europe.
Due to open this summer, the new facility will supply the wider central and
eastern European market and will employ around 25 people. The production area will house up to six produc- tion lines, with scope to expand operations in the future. The site will also include a laboratory , according to the company.
The plant will comple-
ment RTP’s existing Euro- pean facilities in France and Germany. The company also has two production sites in China, one each in Mexico and Singapore, and 12 across the US. �
www.rtpcompany.com
Three-way partnership yields sparkling 3Dprint effects
Effect pigment specialist Schenk Metallic Pigments and filament maker Herz, both from Germany, together with Austrian- based masterbatch manufacturer Gabriel-Chemie have developed a 3Dprint filament claimed to offer “an astonishingly authentic” metallic appearance. The three partners used ultra-fine pig-
ments from Schenk with Gabriel-Chemie’s masterbatch formula to create “a silky, homogeneous surface” free from visible glitter particles and with a deep shine. Read more about this and other special effect pigment innova- tions in our feature on page 57. �
www.gabriel-chemie.com
Lomon Billions to invest in TiO2
China’s Lomon Billions has approved an investment of around $285m to build two new chloride route titanium dioxide (TiO2
) manufacturing lines at
its site in Jiaozuo, Henan province. This move will give the company about 200,000 tonnes/year of extra capacity, as well as the ability to make
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more high-performance product for applications including plastics. Commercial production is expected to begin during 2019. Formed by the merger of Henan Billions Chemical and Sichuan Lomon Titanium Industry in 2016, Lomon Billions currently has a combined
PHOTO: GABRIEL-CHEMIE
Vases 3Dprinted using the new metallic-effect filament
capacity
700,000 tonnes/year of chloride and sulphate route TiO2
across three sites in
China, where it also owns an ilmenite mine. The company claims to be the
world’s fourth largest producer of TiO2 and the largest in Asia.
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www.lomonbillions.global
www.compoundingworld.com
PHOTO: RTP COMPANY
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