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Ford/Roechling share insight at LFTs 2019
Engineers from Ford and Roechling will detail the development of the company’s D-LFT MegaBox multi-functional luggage compartment – which will be launched on the upcoming Puma car – at AMI’s Long- Fibre Thermoplastics conference in Dusseldorf in Germany in December. The MultiBox is the first composite multi-functional luggage compartment box to be put into a series production vehicle by Ford. Manufactured using compression insert mould- ing by Roechling Automo- tive, the part glues to the rear vehicle floor and can be purposed to hold luggage, spare wheel or Li-Ion battery
and Egemen Erbil from Ford Otosan in Turkey, Matthias Hellriegel from Ford Motor Company in Germany, and Egon Moos from Roechling Automotive. Attendees at AMI’s third
Ford’s D-LFT MultiBox luggage compartment system will be detailed at Long-Fibre Thermoplastics 2019
according to the specific vehicle specification. The thinking, develop- ment and production of this novel component will be explained by Meltem Öztürk
Long-Fibre Thermoplastics conference, which takes place on 4-5 December 2019, will also hear from material and technology experts from LFT specialists including Borealis, Cela- nese, Fraunhofer, Lotte Chemical, SABIC, SKYI Composites and Xiamen LFT Composite. To find out more about
Long-Fibre Thermoplastics and to book a place, download the conference brochure:
bit.ly/LFTs2019
PolyOne reclaims black
PolyOne has launched OnColor RC Environmental Black, a colour concentrate made using a reclaimed carbon black sourced from scrap rubber from end-of- life tyres. According to Bolder Industries, which manufactures the carbon black
pigment, production uses 90% less water and 61% less electricity while emitting 90% less CO2
than manufacture of virgin carbon black. PolyOne said that OnColour RC Environmental Black passes all relevant
REACH and RoHS requirements. Applications are envisaged in the automotive, appliances, electronics and office furniture market. �
www.polyone.com
PolyOne’s latest OnColor product uses reclaimed carbon black
Italian plastics machinery sales slow in first half
Amaplast, the Italian plastics machinery association, released mid-year figures showing that the country’s trade in plastics machinery continued to decline in 1H. Overall, the association said imports
were 17% down on 1H 2018, while exports were 5% down.
10 COMPOUNDING WORLD | October 2019
The decline is mainly the result of a slump in trade with Germany, which is Italy’s largest import and export partner for plastics machinery. Imports and exports fell by 26% and 33% respectively, Amaplast said. Most other European national markets were also down for Italian
exporters, as was South America. North America was slightly up but by far the strongest markets were in the Far East and Middle East, with China showing a 39% increase, Thailand 55% and Indonesia more than doubling albeit from a low base. �
www.amaplast.org
www.compoundingworld.com
Teijin opens plant in Thailand
Teijin has begun opera- tions at its compounding plant and technical centre at the Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate near Ayutthaya in Thailand. Teijin said it “is position- ing the new technical centre in Thailand as a development hub for the ASEAN region”. The intention is to accelerate its business expansion by strengthening product development capabilities, particularly in the Chinese and ASEAN markets. The plant is the Japa- nese company’s third resin-related R&D hub in Asia – it has others in Japan and China. �
www.teijin.co.jp
PHOTO: FORD MOTOR CO
PHOTO: POLYONE
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