Plastics Color opens clean compounding plant in California

(PlasticsToday) -- Plastics Color Corp. has opened its new clean compounding facility in Sun Valley, CA, modeling its fourth production plant after its segregated "Plant Within a Plant" concept initially unveiled at PCC's Asheboro, NC campus. The supplier of color concentrates, additive masterbatches, pre-colored resin, and toll compounding initially announced plans for the facility in Southern California in May 2010.


The 30,000-ft2 Sun Valley plant will employ 14 at startup and operate two segregated clean lines, targeting the medical, pharmaceutical, and food-packaging industries The plant will also warehouse PCC's commodity products for distribution to locations in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as storing PCC's black and white products for quick delivery.


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Injection molder Jyoti investing in western India

(PLASTICS NEWS) -- Indian injection molder and compounder Jyoti Plastics Work Pvt. Ltd. is building a US$10 million facility in western India to serve as a base for bringing in manufacturing partnerships, particularly with American and other foreign firms.


The Mumbai-based company plans to open the first phase of the factory in Khadki, Gujarat state, in the next few months with injection molding capability, and finish the other three phases by the end of 2011.


The company currently has three facilities, two in Daman, near Mumbai and one in Dungri, Gujarat. It plans to shift injection molding from one of the two Daman factories, and is going to use the vacant plant for research and development.


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Germany's Bruckner buys Swiss packaging machinery firm

(PLASTICS NEWS ) -- Germany's Bruckner Group, the maker of film stretching lines, cast film machinery and thermoforming and welding machines, has purchased PackSys Global Ltd., a Swiss company that makes specialized packaging equipment. Bruckner of Seigsdorf announced Jan. 31 that it has acquired all shares of PackSys Global from private equity investors.


Based in Zurich, Switzerland, PackSys Global makes lines for aluminum, plastic and laminate tubes, metal and plastic closurtes and monobloc aerosol cans. The company also makes equipment for dry offset printing, which can be integrated into production lines for tubes, metal caps and cans.


PackSys will generate sales of about 70 million Swiss francs ($74 million). The firm employs about 300 people in manufacturing and assembly operations in Switzerland and Thailand, and a software development center in India.


The deal signals that Bruckner is in acquisition mode after selling Kiefel Extrusion GmbH, its blown film machinery business, in 2009 to Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. KG.


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Co-Extruded plastic tubing from NewAge Industries

(Food Online) -- Polyethylene-lined EVA tubing is a co-extruded product now available from NewAge Industries. The tubing combines the functionality of polyethylene with the flexibility of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and is used in applications such as food and beverage processing, pharmaceutical uses, chemical transfer, appliances, computer equipment, laboratories, fluid feeds and drains, and more.


Polyethylene tubing is typically a semi-rigid product. The addition of EVA gives it enhanced flexibility and allows its use with economical barb-style fittings. The tubing's patented manufacturing method ensures a permanent bond between the inner and outer layers. First the core of low density polyethylene is extruded, then farther down the production line, the EVA covering is extruded around the core using a patented process. The result is a tubing that offers different performance characteristics for the inside and outside of the tube ≈ cleanliness inside, flexibility outside.


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Polystyrene consumption in Russia in 2010 reached the level of peak 2007

MOSCOW (MRC) -- Polystyrene consumption in Russia over 2010 made 456 KT which was 24% more than in 2009, according to MRC Annual reports.

After two-year recession in the sector of PS conversion in Russia, in 2010 the recovery in this sector was marked. Total volume of PS and styrene plastics consumption in Russia exceeded the peak level of 2007 (454 KT). One third of the consumed materials fell at the domestic producer Nizhnekamskneftehim.


A part of the imports (210 KT) in the total volume of consumption in 2010 made 46%. Still a considerable part of the total volume of the imports falls at EPS and ABS (47% and 22% correspondingly).


About 40% of all consumed PS fall at EPS and XPS production.


The growth of PS consumption in Russia is stipulated by development of car industry and electrical goods production as well as growth in the sector of heat insulation materials.


More detailed analysis of PS consumption and production capacities by types, technologies and sectors for each producer is presented in the Annual report PS and styrene plastics in Russia - 2010.


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