NEWS
Albis Plastic acquires CFRP firm Wipag
Albis Plastic, the Hamburg, Germany-based distribu- tor and compounder of technical thermo- plastics, is to acquire the Wipag Group with effect from January 2018.
Wipag specialises in carbon fibre compounds for injection moulding, which it makes at two sites in Germany using its fibre recycling technology. This takes waste carbon fibre, mostly from the automotive industry. Buying Wipag will enable Albis to offer PP and PA carbon fibre-filled com-
Wipag specialises in com- pounds containing recycle carbon fibre
pounds, which, the com- pany says, “offer excellent mechanical properties and low density” and have significant weight and cost advantages over highly-
filled glass fibre-reinforced PA compounds. As well as its experience in
closed-loop carbon fibre recycling, Wipag takes in PP
from post-industrial and post-consumer applications. Bernd Sparenberg, Vice- President of Technical Compounds at Albis, said that these activities “provide an excellent platform for our Altech Eco PP compounds and expand our range of high quality Near-to-Prime recycling compounds”. ❯
www.albis.com ❯
www.wipag.com
Braskem puts recycling in orbit
Brazilian polymer producer Braskem and US-based 3D print specialist Made In Space, are jointly develop- ing a new technology that will recycle plastic on NASA’s International Space Station (ISS). Part of the companies’
“Printing the Future” venture, the project will begin next year and will involve astronauts on the ISS using Braskem’s sugarcane ethanol-based PE to 3D print tools from filament recycled in space. The partners have developed a machine that will crush 3D printed parts and other plastics no longer required – such as food packaging – and extrude new filament to be used in the 3D printer already
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installed on the ISS. It is hoped this will help cut the cost of space missions by reducing the weight of payloads carried from Earth. ■ The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of October that LyondellBasell had initiated takeover
discussions with Braskem. This had not been con- firmed at the time of writing but Braskem’s biggest shareholder, Odebrecht, said it wanted to retain its investments. ❯
www.braskem.com.br ❯
www.madeinspace.us
NEWS IN BRIEF...
The additives business unit of Lanxess is increasing prices for its polydibromo- styrene products and its Firemaster 2100R decadi- bromophenyl ethane flame retardant by 15% from 1 November. The former is used mainly in PA housings for electronic products and electrical plug connectors, the latter in wire and cable insulation and speciality fabric coatings. ❯
www.lanxess.com
Industrial minerals pro- ducer Omya will represent Burgess Pigment Com- pany’s products in the polyolefin compounding and rigid PVC markets in the US and Canada. Burgess makes functional anhydrous and hydrous aluminium silicates for applications including plastics modification. ❯
www.omya.com
New project will recycle and 3D print plastics on the International Space Station
COMPOUNDING WORLD | November 2017
Ohio, US-based Aurora Plastics, a maker of PVC compounds, has acquired TPE producer S&E Speciality Polymers of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. It is Aurora’s second acquisition this year and is its first expansion into TPEs. It also expands Aurora’s footprint across the US and Canada , which currently includes plants in Ohio,Massachussetts, North Carolina and Quebec. The Lunenburg site will produce CPE, TPO, plastic concentrates and LSOH compounds. ❯
www.auroraplastics.com ❯
www.sespoly.com
www.compoundingworld.com
PHOTO: WIPAG
PHOTO: MADE IN SPACE
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