DuPont launches new range of polymers for food applications

(DuPont) -- DuPont Performance Polymers is launching a new family of products, designated "FG" (Food grade) that meet demanding requirements for use in food contact applications.

The materials being introduced make the DuPont offering one of the broadest portfolios of engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers for food contact applications. These products utilize the company's expertise and long experience in polymer science, quality, safety and regulatory compliance for the global food products market.

The DuPont FG portfolio consists of numerous products including DuPont Hytrel TPC-ET, Delrin Acetal, Zytel HTN (High-Performance Polyamide), Crastin PBT, Zytel 6, 6/6 and 6/12 Nylon (Polyamide), Rynite PET and Sorona EP PTT.

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(prw) -- UPM Conveyors has worked with Intier Automotive to automate the product handling from a bank of seven large tonnage injection moulding machines at the automotive supplier's facility in Redditch.

The project offered a pay back time of only eight months against an investment of GBP 150,000 by improving efficiency and reducing labour.

Originally an operator was employed on each of the Krauss-Maffei machines to visually check and carry out secondary operations on the moulded parts. These would then be stacked in a stillage ready to be taken to the assembly area via a pallet truck or fork lift.

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(Plastics News) -- Bill Farrant has been appointed president and CEO of Kautex Machines Inc., effective Sept. 1. Farrant was appointed by Bonn, Germany-based parent company Kautex Maschinenbau GmbH.

He was previously business development manager focused on supporting the North American market. Kautex makes blow molding machines for consumer and industrial packaging and for the automotive market.

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(PackagingNews) -- Recycling firm Jayplas has started up its 30,000 tonne food-grade PET recycling facility in Northamptonshire. Jayplas bought the site last October and it has taken 10 months to convert it to recycle food grade.

Material comes from the firm's own sorting facility in Mansfield and from local authorities and other waste management firms. Jayplas said the facility would help increase the amount of recovered PET that could be turned back into food packaging in the UK.

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(Borealis) -- Chemicals manufacturer Borealis has appointed Gerd Lobbert as executive vice president, polyolefins, effective 1 October 2010. He was previously executive vice president, base chemicals, and succeeds Lorenzo Delorenzi, who has left the company. Lobbert joined Borealis in January 2010 having previously held a number of positions at BASF in the US and Europe, specifically in the area of pigments, polymers and additives.

Sergey Andreev, BASF's Russia and CIS CEO, is going to chair an upcoming international "Russian Polymers Summit - 2010" conference organizaed by ICIS and MRC. For more information please visit the Summit's http://www.polymersummit.ru/ official web page.

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