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India’s first carbon DSM Composite Resins plans for fibre plant growth in Turkey COMPOSITES MANUFACTURER Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd has commissioned the first carbon fibre manufacturing facility in India. Located in Vadodara, Gujarat, the plant has an initial capacity of 400 tonnes a year. The facility was set up with technology know-how from CSIR - National Aerospace Laboratory, Bengaluru, India. The project cost Rs200 crores. Kemrock will manufacture carbon fibre composites and prepregs for advanced composites applications in the defence, aerospace, wind energy, transportation and infrastructure sectors.
Speaking at the inauguration of the plant on 9 May, Kalpesh Patel, CMD, Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd, said: “In-house production of carbon fibre is the first step towards establishing a self sufficient domestic capability to produce composite products for the aerospace, defence and wind energy markets. The carbon fibre capability will be a strategic fit to our existing operations, augmenting our resin production, technical fabric capability and moulding ability.” Kemrock Industries; www.kemrock.com
HOBAS opens pipe research centre HOBAS has opened a research centre for glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) pipe systems in Wietersdorf, Austria. The €1.1 million HOBAS TechCenter was inaugurated on 30 April after a year of construction work. The laboratory is certified to international standards. Tests which can be performed include stiffness, ring stiffness, abrasion, burst, strain corrosion,
creep, cyclic internal pressure loading, and longitudinal tensile stress tests under temperatures up to 65°C. Couplings and fittings can also be tested. “There is no certification centre that is able to test 4 m diameter pipes,” explains Thomas Simoner, the HOBAS group’s Head of Quality Management, Raw Material and Product Development. “We can now conduct these tests in-house and if necessary the certification authorities can monitor us via camera.” The HOBAS Group, headquartered in Klagenfurt, Austria, produces centrifugally cast GRP (CC-GRP) pipe systems for potable water, sewer, drainage, hydropower and industrial applications.
HOBAS can now conduct tests on pipes up to 4 m in diameter.
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MAY/JUNE 2010
DSM COMPOSITE Resins, through its subsidiary Euroresins Kompozit Ürünler Tic Ltd Sti (Euroresins Turkey) (ERT) has outlined plans for closer cooperation with Turkish company Dyo Boya Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Tic AS (DYO). According to DSM’s letter of intent with DYO, DYO will begin toll manufacture of DSM Composite Resins standard resins by the third quarter of 2010, while DYO’s existing unsaturated polyester resins business will transfer to ERT. Announcing the news at a press conference at the JEC Composites Show in Paris in April, Michael Effing, President of DSM Composite Resins, noted that Turkey is an emerging economy, with a fast growing composites market. The country is also a solid platform from which to expand into the Middle East and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries (which include Ukraine and Russia). According to Effing, the resin business in Turkey was 60 000 tonnes in 2009, and the biggest markets (in terms of volume) are pipe and construction, and automotive. “The addition of DYO’s UPR [unsaturated polyester resin] business to ERT’s existing portfolio should not only create a significant amount of new business for DSM in the Turkish market but also bring new export opportuni-
ties to the Middle East and the countries surrounding Turkey including Russia, the Balkans and CIS countries,” comments Sertaç Sürür, managing director of DSM Composite Resins Turkey. “Moreover, establishing local production capabilities for DSM standard resins will make them locally available to the Turkish market with higher service levels, and will provide us with a platform to promote the use of our speciality and innovation products in Turkey’s growth industries, where manufacturers are seeking greater innovation and value as they compete at an international level,” he adds. DYO is a subsidiary of Yasar Holding group. It has two production facilities in Gebze (near Istanbul) and Izmir, the company’s headquarters.
■ At the JEC press confer-
ence, Effing also noted that DSM is currently investigating building a new plant for the manufacture of composite resins in China. DSM Composite Resins already has two production plants in the country. The market for thermoset resins (unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester) for composite applications in China was 770 000 tons in 2008; DSM will focus on supplying speciality products for the market. DSM Composite Resins; www.dsmcompositeresins.com
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India’s first carbon DSM Composite Resins plans for fibre plant growth in Turkey COMPOSITES MANUFACTURER Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd has commissioned the first carbon fibre manufacturing facility in India. Located in Vadodara, Gujarat, the plant has an initial capacity of 400 tonnes a year. The facility was set up with technology know-how from CSIR - National Aerospace Laboratory, Bengaluru, India. The project cost Rs200 crores. Kemrock will manufacture carbon fibre composites and prepregs for advanced composites applications in the defence, aerospace, wind energy, transportation and infrastructure sectors.
Speaking at the inauguration of the plant on 9 May, Kalpesh Patel, CMD, Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd, said: “In-house production of carbon fibre is the first step towards establishing a self sufficient domestic capability to produce composite products for the aerospace, defence and wind energy markets. The carbon fibre capability will be a strategic fit to our existing operations, augmenting our resin production, technical fabric capability and moulding ability.” Kemrock Industries; www.kemrock.com
HOBAS opens pipe research centre HOBAS has opened a research centre for glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) pipe systems in Wietersdorf, Austria. The €1.1 million HOBAS TechCenter was inaugurated on 30 April after a year of construction work. The laboratory is certified to international standards. Tests which can be performed include stiffness, ring stiffness, abrasion, burst, strain corrosion,
creep, cyclic internal pressure loading, and longitudinal tensile stress tests under temperatures up to 65°C. Couplings and fittings can also be tested. “There is no certification centre that is able to test 4 m diameter pipes,” explains Thomas Simoner, the HOBAS group’s Head of Quality Management, Raw Material and Product Development. “We can now conduct these tests in-house and if necessary the certification authorities can monitor us via camera.” The HOBAS Group, headquartered in Klagenfurt, Austria, produces centrifugally cast GRP (CC-GRP) pipe systems for potable water, sewer, drainage, hydropower and industrial applications.
HOBAS can now conduct tests on pipes up to 4 m in diameter.
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Hobas; www.hobas.com
MAY/JUNE 2010
DSM COMPOSITE Resins, through its subsidiary Euroresins Kompozit Ürünler Tic Ltd Sti (Euroresins Turkey) (ERT) has outlined plans for closer cooperation with Turkish company Dyo Boya Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Tic AS (DYO). According to DSM’s letter of intent with DYO, DYO will begin toll manufacture of DSM Composite Resins standard resins by the third quarter of 2010, while DYO’s existing unsaturated polyester resins business will transfer to ERT. Announcing the news at a press conference at the JEC Composites Show in Paris in April, Michael Effing, President of DSM Composite Resins, noted that Turkey is an emerging economy, with a fast growing composites market. The country is also a solid platform from which to expand into the Middle East and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries (which include Ukraine and Russia). According to Effing, the resin business in Turkey was 60 000 tonnes in 2009, and the biggest markets (in terms of volume) are pipe and construction, and automotive. “The addition of DYO’s UPR [unsaturated polyester resin] business to ERT’s existing portfolio should not only create a significant amount of new business for DSM in the Turkish market but also bring new export opportuni-
ties to the Middle East and the countries surrounding Turkey including Russia, the Balkans and CIS countries,” comments Sertaç Sürür, managing director of DSM Composite Resins Turkey. “Moreover, establishing local production capabilities for DSM standard resins will make them locally available to the Turkish market with higher service levels, and will provide us with a platform to promote the use of our speciality and innovation products in Turkey’s growth industries, where manufacturers are seeking greater innovation and value as they compete at an international level,” he adds. DYO is a subsidiary of Yasar Holding group. It has two production facilities in Gebze (near Istanbul) and Izmir, the company’s headquarters.
■ At the JEC press confer-
ence, Effing also noted that DSM is currently investigating building a new plant for the manufacture of composite resins in China. DSM Composite Resins already has two production plants in the country. The market for thermoset resins (unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester) for composite applications in China was 770 000 tons in 2008; DSM will focus on supplying speciality products for the market. DSM Composite Resins; www.dsmcompositeresins.com
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