NEWS IN BRIEF...
Danish medical polymers distributor and compound- er Melitek has broken ground on the first stage of a planned expansion at its site at Nørre Alslev. The company is building a 2,000 m2
high-storage
warehouse for its proprietary Meliflex production that will provide an extra 1,800 tonnes of storage capacity.
www.melitek.com
Microtec, part of Italy’s Sirmax Group, has launched four new bio-based plastic grades. Biocomp IM 95, IM 95CP, IM DPLA and IM CFLE have all been developed specifically for injection moulding and extrusion and thermoforming.
www.sirmax.com
BASF is increasing prices globally for its plastics additives by 10%. The company is also raising prices in Europe for its Ecovio F, M and T part- renewable biodegradable plastic materials by €350 per tonne.
www.plastics.basf.com
HPF starts up in Korea
Quarzwerke subsidiary HPF The Mineral Engineers has started production at its high performance fillers facility at Dangjin in South Korea, its first production unit in Asia. HPF Minerals Tech is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quarzwerke. According to the company, the new plant uses world-class technolo- gies for processing and surface coating minerals. It will process raw materials such as silica sand and wollastonite from local regional sources. Initially, the operation will produce a variety of Silbond
The new HPF minerals processing unit at Dangjin in Korea
and Tremin grades for the regional Asian market. It will offer silane-coated products as well as uncoated mineral
flours and high filling grades with optimised particle-size distributions. �
www.hpfminerals.com
Bada expands its PA portfolio
Germany’s Bada said it has extended its Badamid range of engineered PA com- pounds with new high-tem- perature PPA and PA blend grades.
Badamid PPA-HT offers dimensional stability to near 300°C, together with high rigidity and low water absorption. It is available with fibre loadings to 60%.
Badamid PPA-GP grades offer slightly reduced performance but can be processed at mould temperatures below 100°C. The company has also
introduced four lines based on blends and alloys of aromatic and aliphatic PAs. These are said to provide good processing and surface quality. Badamid
PPA-HPX is said to offer a similar mechanical and thermal profile to PA66, Badamid PPA-HP2X is optimised for weld line strength, Badamid PPA-HP offers a high surface quality, and Badamid PPA-HP2 is formulated to provide good weld line stability in PA66- like processing conditions. �
www.bada.de
TetraPak certifies its recycled PE polymers
TetraPak has introduced certified recycled polymers for its food and beverage packages, in the process gaining Roundtable on Sustain- able Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification. The packaging producer worked with Ineos to source recycled
PE that met its performance and purity requirements. The recyclate used is certified under the RSB attribution model, which tracks recycled and non-recycled materials through the company’s supply chain and is verified by external audit. The move is part of a commitment to incorporate a minimum of
10% recycled plastic content on average across carton packages it sells in Europe by 2025. �
www.tetrapak.com �
https://rsb.org/
8 COMPOUNDING WORLD | March 2021
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