NEWS Obituary: Adam Dreiblatt
CPM Century Extrusion Director of Process Technology Adam Dreiblatt passed away on 15 February this year at the age of 66 after a near year-long battle with neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. Dreiblatt described himself as an
“extrusioneering professional”. He had worked for CPM since 2007, having previously run a twin screw extrusion training and simulation software business for 13 years. A true extrusion expert, sharing compounding expertise was a key
priority for Dreiblatt. He regularly spoke about process technology at conferences and expos — including our own Com- pounding World Expos — and was known by CPM customers and beyond. Dreiblatt was also an enthusiastic contributor to Compounding World, most recently in December last year, and we would like to acknowledge his insight over the years. Dreiblatt is survived by his wife
Michele, children Alex, Perri and Ethan, and grandchildren Aviv and Zev.
LyondellBasell and Kirkbi invest in APK Newcycling
LyondellBasell and Kirkbi (the investment arm of Lego Group) are to make a €130m investment in Germany’s APK, which has developed a solvent-based plastics recycling technol- ogy for PE-based films. Marketed as Newcycling,
the APK process can separate the different polymers of multi-layer and multi-material PE-based packaging materials and produce recycled resin with a high level of purity. Under the agreement, LyondellBasell and Kirkbi
APK’s Newcycling plant at Merseburg in Germany
will become minority shareholders in APK. “We need to advance the
recycling of all types of plastic waste material gener- ated today to support the goal of a circular economy,” said Yvonne van der Laan, LyondellBasell Executive Vice President, Circular and Low Carbon Solutions.” n In a separate move, LyondellBasell has signed a long-term contract with Nexus Circular to source around 24,000 tonnes of recycled feedstock each year from the latter’s planned chemical recycling facility. �
www.lyondellbasell.com �
www.apk.group
Solvay set to exit Rusvinyl
Solvay said it is in “ad- vanced negotiations” to sell its share in the 50/50 Rusvinyl PVC joint venture to its Russian partner Sibur. The company said
preliminary clearance has been obtained from the Russian authorities but further approvals are required. Solvay suspend- ed Rusvinyl dividend payments in March last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rusvinyl’s PVC plant at Kstovo started up in 2014 with a PVC capacity of 335,000 tonnes. �
www.solvay.com �
www.sibur.com
European Loop PET recycling site selected
Resource management group Suez, recycling technology firm Loop Industries, and petrochemicals producer SKGC have chosen the Chemesis industrial platform at Saint-Avold in the Grand Est region of
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France as the site for their first Euro- pean manufacturing facility. The €450m project aims to use
Loop’s depolymerisation technology to recycle up to 70,000 tonnes of PET annually. It is supported by the French
Ministries of Industry and Ecology, the Grand Est region and the Saint-Avold Synergy region community. �
www.suez.com �
eng.skgeocentric.com �
www.loopindustries.com
www.compoundingworld.com
Adam Dreiblatt speaking at the Compounding World Expo
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