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Worldwide Dispensers of North America, which is part of DS Smith’s Plastics division, has completed the expansion of its injection moulding facility at Lester Prairie, Minnesota. An official opening ceremony will take place in June. The company has invested $4m to increase the manufactur- ing footprint by 2,300 m2 7,400 m2


, add high-preci-


sion injection moulding machines, sub-assembly equipment and warehouse space. Another key new feature is a laboratory with advanced computer aided-design, 3D-printing and other equipment aimed at improving product development cycle performance. � www.dssmith.com


Lanxess has commissioned a €7m production line for speciality engineering plastic compounds at its Krefeld-Ürdingen site in Germany. With a capacity of 10,000 tonnes/yr, the new line complements its existing compounding lines for Durethan PA compounds and Pocan PBT compounds, the company said. The twin screw compounding line is optimised for production of Lanxess’s glass fibre- reinforced PAs, com- pounds with high mineral content, and flame-retard- ant compounds. The investment is a response to growing demand for complex compounds in automotive and E&E. � www.lanxess.com


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Albis aims to leverage Wipag’s CF compounds


Investment from its new owner Albis Plastic will enable Wipag


to


Deutschland to move to full-scale produc- tion of polypropylene or polyamide com- pounds reinforced with carbon fibre sourced from post-industrial sources. A pilot plant at Wipag’s facility in Neuburg, Germany, started in 2014 and is now running at its 600 tpa capacity, meeting strong demand for injection moulding compounds, Albis executives told Injection World. A €1m investment in the plant, including a new extrusion line, will allow Wipag to scale-up produc- tion from May and expand its capacity to 4,000 tpa. Albis acquired Wipag’s German business in January, comprising the recycling- compounding facility in Neuburg and another in Gardelegen (Wipag’s shares in joint ventures with ACI in the USA and PPR in the UK were not part of the deal). Wipag uses automotive waste — recycling bumpers, instrument panels and wheel arch liners to produce PP compounds as well as recycled PA, ABS and PC/ ABS materials. This Closed- Loop process is a prime example of the circular economy, recycling parts and components to a level where they can be re-used in the same applications. Wipag’s new innovative recy- cling of carbon fibre (CF) will add a new technology and


INJECTION WORLD | April 2018


30% CF filled PP compound leads to a big weight reduction while maintain- ing material properties. Sparenberg said that a volume pricing approach also shows the


Wipag is planning full-scale production of its PP com- pound reinforced with CF


allow Albis to offer CF-rein- forced PP and PA com- pounds to the automotive and other industries in the future, the company said. Albis is no newcomer to the use of recycled plastics. It was more than 15 years ago that an Albis glass-filled PA compound with recycled content was first used in automotive applications, such as engine covers, said Bernd Sparenberg, Vice President Technical Com- pounds at Albis. Its Altech ECO compounds use up to 100% recycled materials and have “Near-to-Prime” quality, the company says. Thomas Marquardt, who


now heads the acquired Wipag business, highlighted the efficient process devel- oped by Wipag for recycling offcuts from CF part produc- tion into an injection moulding compound. The attraction of Wipag’s CF material (WIC-series) is its ability to take lightweight construction in automotive and other sectors a step further. Replacing a 50% GF filled PA compound with a


CF-PP or CF-PA com- pounds to be more cost effective due to lower density. “We can come to the market with a CF compound that is much reduced in price, and it becomes affordable against GF,” he said. On the basis of price per kilogramme, CF-PP or CF-PA are more expensive than GF-PA, he said, but as the WIC CF-compounds have a lower density, the moulded part results in lower cost than a GF-PA equivalent. More investments are being planned around the Albis group to pursue a global growth strategy in its compounding business. In China, the group will add two new extrusion lines and expand compounding capacity at its Changshu plant in the third quarter of this year. An important element of its strategy is to grow in sustainable recy- cled materials, said Sparen- berg. This is seen in the Wipag acquisition, the latest EcoVadis certification of Wipag and also in the full takeover of its US joint venture Albis Barnet Polymers which recycles post-production polyamide fibres. � www.albis.comwww.wipag.com


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