NEWS IN BRIEF...
Bayport Polymers, a 50/50 JV between Borealis and TotalEnergies, has commenced commercial operation of a new ethane cracker at the latter’s site at Port Arthur, Texas, US. It will supply feedstock for Baystar’s existing 400,000 tonnnes/year PE unit and new 625,000 tonnes/year line, currently under construction.
www.baystar.com
Gabriel-Chemie has supplemented its sustain- able MaxiLoop and MaxiBlue product lines with a new premium white masterbatch offering a 10% reduced CO2 footprint. The new masterbatch is produced at the company’s Austrian location using 100% renewable energy.
www.gabriel-chemie.com
Germany’s Brüggemann has acquired Italian developer and manufac- turer of functionalised polymers Auserpolimeri. The company says Auser- polimeri’s chemically functionalised products complement its own range.
www.brueggemann.com
www.auserpolimeri.it
KraussMaffei unlocks its new extrusion facility
Two years after construction began, KraussMaffei has been handed the key for its new extrusion production site at Laatzen, near Hano- ver in Germany. The new 97,000m2 plant
offers space for up to 750 workplaces and will pro- duce extrusion and com- pounding systems and recycling equipment. It has already commenced the move into the facility, which it aims to complete by the end of the year.
In addition to new offices
and production buildings, a customer experience centre has been established along with an innovation centre allowing technical trials to be performed. The com-
Above: KraussMaffei accepts symbolic key to its new extrusion plant from project developer VGP
pany says demanding and complex extrusion applica- tions can also be tested on up to 26 lines under realistic conditions.
“In the new Laatzen plant,
all extrusion technologies from pipe and profile extrusion through sheet and
flat film extrusion to rubber and foam extrusion, as well as compounding and recycling technologies, are combined at a single location,” said Dieter Thewes, CEO of KraussMaf- fei Extrusion. �
www.kraussmaffei.com
Mitsui and Teijin target bio-PC
Mitsui Chemicals and Teijin have announced plans to develop and market biomass-derived BPA and PC resin. The initiative follows Mitsui Chemicals securing ISCC Plus certification that
allows it to supply BPA, which it produces using the mass-balance approach to verifiably track the complex value chain. Teijin will buy biomass- derived BPA from Mitsui Chemicals to produce its
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own biomass-derived PC resins, which will possess the same physical character- istics as the company’s existing petroleum-derived types. �
www.mitsuichemicals.com �
www.teijin.com
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