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Alcom LD ECO for light- diffusors). From next year, the
company will also be able to extend its offering in lightweight materials using the additional carbon fibre recycling and compounding capacity — more than 3,000 tonnes/yr — being installed at the Wipag plant at Gardelegen. “The new production facility in Gardelegen is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year,” Kaatze said. “We will start with one extrusion line and the equipment for processing the carbon fibres from post-industrial waste for compounding. The hall is dimensioned in such a way that additional extrusion lines can be accommodated.”
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own terms. And he deems that decision to have proved a success, with the sales of the combined compound- ing business now standing at more than €350m. Kaatze said the business
A 3,000 tonnnes/yr recycled carbon fibre compounds line is being installed at the Wipag plant at Gardelegen in Germany
The merger with Wipag is
the latest step in Mocom’s emergence as a standalone compounder (the company was created in 2020 when Otto Krahn Group decided to separate its compound- ing activities from its much larger Albis polymer distribution business).
The goal, Kaatze ex-
plained, was to change the compounding business from one that effectively plugged gaps in its parent company’s distribution portfolio to a standalone enterprise that could make investment and product portfolio decisions on its
environment has been challenging over the past two years with the global economy generally flat. He expects that to remain the case for the immediate future but is positive for the longer term. “I’d say next year will be challenging but it will improve after that. It will not be a big upswing but I believe we will see some rebound effects. Just look at the installed capacity at every step in the different industries. There’s still room for growth.” �
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