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DECEMBER 2018
ISSN 2053-7174
POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES COME OF AGE
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FLAME RETARDANTS
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CONTENTS
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5 News
DuPont invests €80m in Chinese compounding unit; European
recyclers warn over WEEE flame retardants; BASF lays out its
future strategy; The Compound Company doubles capacity;
Clariant and Neste look to renewable feedstocks; free registration
opens for next year’s US Compounding World Expo.
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17 Compounding on a small scale
Small enough to keep costs down, yet capable of scaling
processes to production levels. Mark Holmes looks at
developments in laboratory compounding technology.
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27 Nanocomposites set to deliver
Developers of nano-materials and nanocomposite compounds
have learnt a lot over the past three decades and the technology
may now be ready to deliver. Peter Mapleston reports.
41 Developments in flame retardants
Tougher building fire regulations and the rapid development of
electric vehicles call for more effective and more environmentally-
acceptable flame retardant systems, writes Peter Mapleston.
51 Compounding World marks 10 years
This 116th edition of Compounding World marks the
magazine’s 10th anniversary. Chris Smith looks back at
its beginnings and how it has tracked compounding
industry developments over the past decade.
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65 Speeding up weather testing
Legacy test protocols may be entrenched, but industry is working
to improve weathering test equipment and methods to obtain
faster and better results, Jennifer Markarian finds out more.
78 Diary
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NEWS
PHOTO: DUPONT
DuPont invests $80m in
Chinese compounding
Kafrit
acquires
Polyfil
Israel-headquartered
masterbatch and com-
pounds producer Kafrit
Industries has acquired
Polyfil Corporation of
Rockaway, New Jersey, US,
from its owner Gerry
Fabiano.
Polyfil has been making
additive masterbatches for
35 years. Kafrit said the
acquisition will enable it to
both expand its US
footprint geographically
and add to its technology
capabilities in the field. Avi
Zalcman, CEO of the Kafrit
Group, said the combined
companies “will enjoy
strategic advantages,
allowing them to create a
robust and technical
portfolio that will substan-
tially increase its operating
strength”.
Kafrit plans to offer a
wider product range
based on the two organi-
sations’ combined exper-
tise. Fabiano will remain in
place as an advisor, while
Juan Castaneda will serve
as General Manager.
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www.polyfilcorp.com
New Chinese site will supplement DuPont’s existing compounding operation at Shenzhen
DuPont is to invest more
than $80m to build a new
compounding facility at
Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu
Province in East China. The
new facility is expected to
commence production in
2020 and ramp up to full
capacity by 2023. It will
produce Zytel PA, Delrin
POM, Hytrel and Multibase
TPEs and specialty silicone
materials.
The production facility
will be built on the Yangtze
River International Chemical
Industrial Park and will
support DuPont’s Transpor-
tation & Advanced Polymers
(T&AP) business unit. It will
be equipped to support
production of automotive
adhesives and additional
specialty products.
“This investment rein-
forces our commitment to
China and the Asian market
where we see strong growth
potential across our
businesses,” said Randy
Stone, President of DuPont
Transportation & Advanced
Polymers. “Our new manu-
facturing facility will position
us well to support antici-
pated growth in the auto-
motive sector due to strong
customer demand for our
advanced polymers and
solutions from end users
such as electric and hybrid
vehicle manufacturers.”
The T&AP business unit
already operates a com-
pounding plant in the west
of China at Shenzhen, which
opened in 2016. At the time,
the company said the
Shenzhen plant would
become a regional hub and
ultimately its largest global
compounding facility.
A spokesperson for the
company said that while
part of the same T&AP
business unit, the two
locations are intended to
address different geograph-
ical focuses within the
region. For the immediate
term, the Shenzhen facility
will remain DuPont’s largest
compounding operation but
that may change as the
regional business develops.
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www.dupont.com
Albis adds Solplast FR TPEs to its line-up
Albis Plastics has added the Solplast series of halogen-free flame retardant,
styrene-based TPEs from Slovenian compounder Uteksol to its portfolio. It has
already been distributing Uteksol’s Solplast TPS compounds since 2010.
The new grades, according to Albis, achieve V-0 classification in the UL94 test
and pass the glow wire test at 960°C, both at 2 mm thickness. Their limited
oxygen index is above 30%. They are available in the hardness range from Shore
A45 to Shore A85 in natural colour as well as in black. They can be used for both
injection moulding and extrusion. Applications include housing seals, grommets,
cable bushings and assembly elements.
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www.albis.com
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