Compounding

Extrusion

More Growth & Equipment Investment For Processors This Year

Gardner鈥檚 research projects that processors will invest around $3.3 billion in primary machinery, auxiliary equipment, and molds and related supplies this year, about 10% more than its projection for 2013.

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Extrusion/Compounding at K 2013: Having It All

Extrusion processors no longer need to chose among speed, quality, and flexibility, based on exhibits at K 2013.

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Additives

NIOSH-Industry Collaboration for Safe Use of Nanomaterials

NIOSH has created a field studies team that aims to establish partnerships with companies that produce or use engineered nanomaterials in order to expand and share knowledge of appropriate health and safety practices.

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Multiscrew

K-Tron Adopts Coperion Name

Effective this month, K-Tron, Pitman, N.J., a global supplier of feeding, dosing, and pneumatic conveying equipment and systems, will operate under the brand name Coperion K-Tron.

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Postindustrial

Nordson Buys Kreyenborg

Nordson Corp. continues to add to its portfolio of plastics equipment companies with the purchase of Kreyenborg GmbH, which makes screen changers; and sister company BKG Bruckmann, which makes pelletizers.

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Techmer Buys TP Composites

Color and additives masterbatch supplier Techmer PM, Clinton, Tenn., has expanded its engineering thermoplastics portfolio with the acquisition of custom compounder TP Composites, Ashton, Pa.

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Automotive

Italian Compounder So.F.Ter. Adds U.S. Production

So.F.Ter. is building a plant in Tennessee.

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K 2013 Preview: Extrusion, Compounding, Recycling

Across all extrusion technologies, expect to see new standards in speed, quality, flexibility, and efficiency in both energy and material usage.

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A. Schulman to Acquire Network Polymers

Acquisition expected to be completed in the next few months.

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Commodity Resins

Mitsui to Boost PP Compounding to Meet U.S. Automotive Demand

Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (U.S. office in Rye Brook, N.Y.) has augmented its expansion plans for production of PP automotive compounds and TPOs in the U.S. by an additional 30 million lb/yr through its affiliate, Advanced Composites, Inc., Sidney, Ohio.

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