NEWS Autotech-Sirmax grows in India


India’s Autotech-Sirmax — a joint venture between Mumbai-based Tipco Group and Italy’s Sirmax — has invested INR90m (around $1m) in new equipment to lift capacity of its compounding plant at Valsad. The investment includes high


speed, multi-port, co-rotating twin screw extruders with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes/yr, the company said.


Installed in February, these increase installed capacity to more than 45,000 tonnes/yr. According to Autotech-Sirmax


Marketing Director Ankur Betai, the new lines will help it cater for rapidly increasing market demand for high-quality engineering thermoplas- tics such as PA6 and PA66, ABS, PC, PC/ABS, PBT and PP compounds.


Solvay announces plans to expand in polysulphones


Solvay has announced a multi-year expansion plan for its US-based sulphone polymers business “to build capacity in this field to support a growing global customer base.” The first steps will include 25% capacity increases for Udel PSU at Marietta, Ohio, and for the building block dichlorodiphenyl sulphone at Augusta, Georgia. The latter is due onstream by the end of 2022, with much of the PSU expansion expect- ed online by early 2023. The company said it also plans to increase capacity for Veradel polyether sulphones and Radel poly-


The Autotech-Sirmax joint venture was established in 2017. Tipco Group has been producing PP compounds in India since 1982. It also makes engineering plastic compounds, LFTs, biodegradable compounds and recycled materials, which it supplies to the Indian and Southeast Asian markets. �www.autotechsirmax.in


Cabot ups compounds


in Asia Cabot Corporation has broken ground on a new speciality compounds facil- ity to be co-located with its existing carbon black manufacturing site at Cilegon in Indonesia. Expected to operational


Above: Solvay’s production site at Augusta in the US


phenyl sulphones (scale of that expansion has not been disclosed). Key application market segments for the materials include life science applica- tions such as haemodialysis,


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medical instruments and pharmaceuticals. They are also used in water purifica- tion, where Solvay expects double-digit global demand growth. �www.solvay.com


at the end of 2022, the new facility will add 20,000 tonnes/yr of new capacity for speciality compounds, including black master- batch and conductive compounds. The company said the new unit will satisfy increasing demand in Southeast Asia. �www.cabotcorp.com


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