NEWS Benvic buys Dugdale
Benvic Europe has acquired Dugdale Compounds, which was hitherto the largest independent PVC compounder in the UK. The move is Benvic’s sixth acquisition in just over 18 months, following the purchases of Vinyloop, Plantura and Modenplast in Italy, Alfa PVC in Poland and Ereplast in France. “The integration of a major player like Dugdale within Benvic will allow us to significantly strengthen our operations in the UK and Irish markets, where the group has become a major player over recent years,” said Benvic CEO Luc Mertens. Headquarted at Chevigny Saint Sauveur in France, Benvic sales amount to €225m annually and it has seven production sites in
five countries. Its key markets are the construc- tion, packaging, automotive and medical sectors. Based at Sowerby Bridge in the UK, Dugdale posted sales of around £36m in 2018 on volumes of around 26,000 tonnes of com- pound. Its main markets are
construction, leisure, healthcare, electronics and transport. Dugdale Manag- ing Director David Outen, Head of R&D Dr Jeff Ryan, and Finance Director Darren Rowell will all continue in their current roles. �
www.benvic.com �
www.dugdalepvc.com
Indonesia boost for blockers
Holland Colours has expanded capacity for light blocking colourants at its site in Surabaya, Indo- nesia, in response to growing demand from the Asian market for PET packaging for long shelf-life milk and other dairy products. “This expansion plan is
Dugdale Compounds is Benvic’s latest acquisition LB lifts capacity at Knapsack
LyondellBasell has started up a fifth produc- tion line at its site at Knapsack in Germany, adding 25,000 tonnes/yr of new capacity taking the total to more than 200,000 tonnes. The move is the latest in a series of
debottlenecking investment projects across its European operations. It makes the Knapsack site the world’s largest PP com-
pounding facility, according to the company. The company said it expected demand for its lightweight polymer compounds to grow in automotive for both conventionally- powered vehicles, where they can contrib- ute to reduced CO2
emissions, and in the
coming generation of electric vehicles. �
www.lyondellbasell.com
far more than solely a matter of production capacity. It aims to give operations the most advanced equipment in the market in order to provide our customers and team members with the technol- ogy and capacity they need to grow in a sustainable way”, said Henri Jacobs, director in charge of Asia. Holland Colours has been active in colourants for 40 years and special- ises in customer-specific products. In 2007, it introduced the first versions of advanced light barrier technology for monolayer PET UHT milk packaging under the Holcomer brand. �
www.hollandcolours.com
Automotive first for BASF Vision
BASF’s semi-crystalline Ultramid Vision high transparency PA is being used in a car interior for the first time in this window regulator module for an unnamed German OEM. The part was developed by BASF together with Valeo. Aside from transpar-
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ency, the Ultramid Vision grade offers good tempera- ture, chemical and scratch resistance and can be combined with other PA grades using multi-compo- nent moulding methods. “Due to its excellent prop-
erties, Ultramid Vision was a focus for us from the outset,”
said Sebastian Laukat, Project Manager at Valeo. “The balanced characteris- tics profile in terms of mechanics and processabil- ity in conjunction with the high scratch resistance and UV stability were ultimately the decisive factors.” �
www.ultramid-vision.basf.com
www.compoundingworld.com
PHOTO: DUGDALE COMPOUNDS
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