NEWS DuPont agrees sale of Delrin


DuPont has agreed to sell an 80% stake in its Delrin POM (acetal) business to private equity group TJC (formerly known as The Jordan Company). It said it aims to complete the sale by the end of the year. The deal completes DuPont’s exit


from the engineering plastics sector following last year’s divestiture of most of its former Mobility & Materials segment to Celanese. The business is valued at around $1.8bn.


The Delrin business unit produces and markets acetal homopolymers, which are typically used in high-load mechanical applications such as conveyer belts, safety restraints, gears and medical devices. DuPont Executive Chairman and CEO Ed Breen said the move will advance the company’s position as a premier multi-industrial company. “We are excited to partner with TJC given their successful track record of creating


value through an operations-focused approach and are confident in their ability to drive growth and opportunity for employees and customers of the Delrin business,” he said. “Delrin is widely recognised as the


material of choice for safety critical and high cost-of-failure applications,” said TJC Partner Ian Arons. “We look forward to working closely with the entire Delrin team to drive future growth.” �www.dupont.com


Covestro to pilot PC recycling


Covestro says it is to step up its chemical recycling process for converting PC resin to monomers suitable for reintroduction to the production process from laboratory to pilot scale.


The company said it is planning a multi-million euro pilot facility to be set up at its Technical Centre at Leverkusen in Germany to further develop the chem- olysis technology.


Covestro is to move ahead with a pilot chemolysis plant for recycling PC


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streams containing a product content of more than 50% polycarbonate can be recycled this way. This has been successfully demonstrated with various polycarbonate-containing plastic waste streams,” said Markus Dugal, Head of Process Technology at Covestro. “With the help of this chemolysis, the cycle can be closed to a direct precursor of polycarbon- ate. This makes the recycling process very sustainable,” he said. �www.covestro.com


Ampacet launches pharma antistat


Ampacet has introduced ProVital+Permstat, a non-migratory antistatic masterbatch specifically developed for use with polyolefin films for pharma- ceutical applications. Used in the external


layers of packaging films, ProVital+Permstat is said to create a dissipative poly- meric network that allows


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electrostatic charges on the film surface to dissipate. The antistatic effect lasts as long as the film is in use, prevent- ing particles from sticking to the inside of the packaging when it is emptied. According to Ampacet, the masterbatch can also be incorporated into PE-based cleanroom films used to store and transfer pharma-


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ceutical raw materials or active ingredients used in drug production. ProVita+Permstat is


offered with full consistency of formulation and a no-change policy for raw materials at the CAS and commercial level. It is manufactured under controlled-room conditions. �www.ampacet.com


IN BRIEF...


MBA Polymers UK is expanding its recycling activities with a new plant — its fourth — at Wimbling- ton in Cambridgeshire. The facility will begin operation later this month and is part of the com- pany’s plan to lift its capacity to 100,000 tonnes of recycled PE, PP, PS and ABS by 2030. www.mbapolymers.co.uk


BASF has broken ground on a new polyethylene (PE) plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. Sched- uled to start up in 2025, the 500,000 tpa plant will be backward integrated and will serve fast-growing demand in the region for products such as pipes and specialty films. www.basf.com


Private equity group INVL Baltic Sea has acquired a 70% stake Polish PVC window recycler, Metal- Plast. The Świebodzice- based company has an annual capacity of around 29,000 tonnes. www.metal-plast.pl


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