NEWS
New presidents at European associations
Plastics Europe, the Euro- pean plastics producers trade body, has appointed Marco ten Bruggencate, Commercial VP for Packag- ing and Speciality Plastics in the EMEA region at Dow, as its new president. Ten Bruggencate succeeds Markus Steilemann, CEO of Covestro. During Steilemann’s
two-year tenure, Plastics Europe sought to promote the industry’s transition towards net zero carbon emissions and circularity, including calling for a mandatory EU recycled content target for plastics packaging of 30% by 2030. It also launched the Euro- pean Operation Clean Sweep certification scheme,
Technimark expands global HQ
Marco ten Bruggencate
plus a new visual identity and website, among other initiatives. Meanwhile, at its recent
general assembly in Brussels, European Plastics Converters (EuPC), the association for plastics processors in Europe, elected Benoît Hennaut, CEO of Herige Group, as its new President
Benoît Hennaut
for the period 2022-2024. Hennaut replaces Renato
Zelcher, who had spent the last four years as EuPC President. This was the first time the EuPC assembly had taken place in person in two years, due to restrictions caused by Covid-19. �
https://plasticseurope.org �
www.plasticsconverters.eu
Engel, Koch develop interface
Engel and Werner Koch, which makes peripheral equipment, have jointly developed an OPC UA interface for the integration of mixing and dosing machines on Engel’s
injection moulding ma- chines. As of now, Koch’s units can be integrated with the CC300 control unit of the Engel injection moulding machines via OPC UA and
operated via the control panel. The dosing process is centrally controlled via the machine display, removing the need for an additional control unit. �
www.engelglobal.com
Technimark has acquired a site adjacent to its global headquarters at Asheboro, North Carolina, USA. The company plans to add a 204,000 sq ft facility there. This will have Class 7 and 8 clean rooms and will specialise in medical manufacturing, including precision injection moulding, value-added assembly, finished device assembly, contract manufacturing and logistics operations. The expansion will bring the total space at Asheboro to 1.4m sq ft. Further expansions are under way now or planned to begin in 2023 at other Technimark sites in Mexico, UK, Ireland, Germany and China. Kris Peavy, CCO &
President of Healthcare, said: “Creating open capacity to meet our customers’ future manu- facturing needs is a pillar of our organic growth strategy.” �
www.technimark.com
Faurecia targets recyclates for interiors
Tier 1 automotive supplier Faurecia and Veolia have signed a cooperation and research agreement to develop compounds for automotive interior modules, notably instrument panels, door panels and centre consoles, with the aim of achieving 30% average recycled content by 2025. Veolia will start production at its sites in France from 2023.
10 INJECTION WORLD | June 2022 “The strategic partnership will
leverage the companies’ complemen- tary competencies across sustainable compound formulations, stringent automotive architecture requirements, sourcing and innovative treatment of industrial and post-consumer plastic waste,” the two companies said. Veolia has been supplying recycled PP compounds to the automotive
industry in France for over five years, while Faurecia was the first automotive supplier to introduce a complete range of bio-composite cockpit materials in 2011. These have since been used in around 13m vehicles, with a CO2
footprint 28% lower than
that of their conventional counterparts. �
www.faurecia.com �
www.veolia.com
www.injectionworld.com
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