NEWS IN BRIEF...
Americhem has created a new Healthcare division. Based on its clean com- pounding expansion at Morrisville, PA, US, it will support customers in the healthcare and medical device sectors via material selection, product devel- opment and cross-collabo- ration between teams.
www.americhem.com
Avantium has signed a conditional offtake agreement for PEF from its FDCA flagship plant with Sukano, a Swiss producer of additive and colour masterbatches and compounds for polyester and speciality resins. Sukano aims to develop masterbatches for use with PEF resins.
www.avantium.com
www.sukano.com
Distrupol, a UK-based pan-European distributor of thermoplastics and elastomers, has acquired Baritec. Based at Espoo near Helsinki, Baritec has a network of warehouses in Finland and the Baltic States.
www.distrupol.com
www.baritec.fi
PSC Group acquires TSI
PSC Group, a specialist in product handling, site logistics, and railcar repair for the petrochemical, refining and marine indus- tries based in Pasadena, TX, US, has acquired Thermo- plastics Services (TSI), a custom compounding and pelletising business located at Dequincy, LA. The move is PCS Group’s second plastics compound- ing acquisition. Last December the company
— which is owned by private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners — bought Akrotex Extrusion & Recycling, a custom compounding and pelletising business based in Orange, TX.
“In the last 12 months, PSC has made strategic investments in human capital, equipment and M&A to establish a leading plastic resin sustainability offering,” said CEO said Joel Dickerson.
“The TSI acquisition
reinforces PSC’s focus on providing ESG [Environmen- tal, Social and Governance] solutions to our customers and supporting our custom- ers’ Operation Clean Sweep initiatives while reprocess- ing and repurposing scrap plastic into products used every day,” he said. PSC is an Operation
Clean Sweep member. �
www.pscgroup.com �
https://thermoplasticservices.com/
ESU backs Polykemi LCA tool
Swedish compounder Polykemi Group said it has gained new third-party certification for the method- ology behind its web-based materialsmart carbon footprint reduction tool, which it launched last year. The certification was carried out by ESU Services, the Switzerland-based competence centre for Sima Pro LCA software. Its analysis concluded that the Polykemi methodology was appropri- ately defined and the methods used in its imple- mentation are scientifically and technically valid.
Henrik Palokangas, Sustain- ability Specialist at Polykemi
“The process of conduct- ing a life cycle analysis (LCA) is complex and the results are based on the assump-
tions that were made. The third-party certification proves that our assumptions were correct,” according to Henrik Palokangas, Sustain- ability Specialist responsible for polymer materials at Polykemi Group. The materialsmart tool aims to provide customers with accurate information to calculate the climate impact of their material choice and is said to allow the selection of the optimal solution for both sustainability and cost efficiency. �
www.polykemi.com �
https://materialsmart.info/
BENVIC IN MOTION EXPANDING NEW COMPOUNDS FROM BUILDING TO DATACOM
IMAGE: POLYKEMI GROUP
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