NEWS
Clean room moulding expansion at Röchling
The Röchling Group has expanded and upgraded its Medical division’s plant in Brensbach, Germany, at a cost of €7.2m.
Production is now carried
out in cleanrooms meeting GMP Grade C standards and under smart factory conditions, while the
cleanroom space was nearly doubled to 2,000 m2
. Work
originally began in Septem- ber 2017. To achieve maximum
Röchling Medical’s plant in Brensbach, Germany
flexibility, Röchling Medical said that it designed the new building to integrate injection moulding and assembly systems into the cleanroom. This ensures that machinery can be reposi- tioned or replaced quickly and it can respond quickly to changing requirements, especially in injection moulding. �
www.roechling.com
New IK president named
Roland Strassburger (right), CEO and chairman of the management board at Schütz, has been named president of IK, the German Association for Plastics Packaging & Films, succeeding Roland Roth. Strassburger had been treasurer at IK since 2010 and vice-president since 2014. He said that his priorities will includes strengthening the positive image of plastics packaging, focusing on its contribution to climate protection and resource conserva- tion. “While the often-emotional debate about plastics packaging is frequently reduced to the – undeniably important – topic of marine waste, we wish to give more space to the actual function of plastics packaging,” he said. �
www.kunststoffverpackungen.de
Borealis finds foam partner
Borealis has entered a strategic alliance with UK-based Bockatech to help accelerate the development of the latter’s EcoCore foam technology, which produces injection moulded packaging, such as cups, pots, trays and tubs, with a smooth outer wall and foamed core. The non-exclusive partnership will jointly develop reusable and recyclable solutions that will be made available for global use under licence. Andreas Leitner,
Borealis Head of New Business Development, called the alliance “a real step forward for more circularity in packaging.” In the development work, the Borealis grades BH381MO and Daploy WB140HMS will be used. Standard injection moulding machines can be used with EcoCore, along with commonly available blowing agents. �
www.borealisgroup.com �
www.bockatech.com
Celanese buys Indian compounder
Celanese has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Next Polymers, one of India’s largest domestic com- pounders of engineering thermoplas- tics (ETPs), from the JP Group. The company produces some 20,000 tonnes/year of custom compounds at its facility at Silvassa, including an increasing proportion of post-industrial content. The deal, for which terms were
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not disclosed, should close in Q1 2019. “Next Polymers complements our
rapidly growing India business to further establish Celanese as a leader in the Indian ETP market by broaden- ing our ability to serve nylon and other engineered materials customers in a high-growth region,” said Celanese COO Scott Sutton. He said the move will also enable the company to
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support customers in a market growing at a rate of 15% per year. Next Polymers compounds PA 6 and
6,6, PP, ABS, PC and PMMA for various industrial, automotive, electrical and electronic and consumer applications. Celanese will continue to operate the Next Polymers brand. �
www.celanese.com �
http://nextpolymers.co.in/
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