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and includes two roofs with photovoltaic panels and heating supplied by heat pumps. “Our innovation centre will become an incubator


for future-oriented technologies in methacrylate chemistry, and strengthen our leading position in Europe and beyond,” said Michael Pack, CEO of Röhm. Röhm has already invested at the site in recent


IMAGE: LUCA HOFFMANNBECK, SKZ


Above: Germany’s SKZ can now offer practical training on a new blown film extrusion line


line can be operated with different material systems and film thicknesses from around 50 250 microns. In future, SKZ will offer several courses in blown


film extrusion, which will differ in their entry level. These will range from courses for experienced machine operators – in which detailed technical knowledge will be imparted – to those for career changers, who will learn the process and plastics processing from scratch. “We are pleased to now include blown film


extrusion in our advanced training portfolio,” said Andreas Büttner, group manager for education material development, compounding and extru- sion at SKZ. “Until now, we unfortunately did not have any equipment available at SKZ.”


Innovation centre German chemical company Röhm – whose prod- ucts include Plexiglas acrylic sheet – has opened a new innovation centre at its site in Worms. The company is pooling its European research activities at new complex, which comprises a laboratory building and a technical centre with pilot plants. The plant has taken 18 months to build


years, including new production plants and capacity expansions. The innovation centre will create a further 100 jobs at the location. Employees working in research, development, and application technology will collaborate on the development and optimisation of products, processes, and applications at the new centre. In addition, Röhm has recently begun operations


at research centres in China and the US. PC pilot


At the same tie, Trinseo has inaugurated a polycar- bonate (PC) dissolution pilot facility in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. Currently in the R&D phase, the pilot facility is situated in a temporary area and will later be moved into the Central Process Research Laboratory at the same site. “We are excited to have started up the pilot facility for PC dissolution,” said Francesca Rever- beri, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer at Trinseo. “This technology deepens the potential in circularity.” Dissolution recycling is a process whereby polymer is extracted using solvents which dissolve PC contained in end-of-life parts while other materials will remain.


CLICK ON THE LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION: � www.norner.no � www.collin-solutions.de � www.skz.de � www.roehm.de � www.trinseo.com


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