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FOCUS running trend away from solvent-borne paints is expected to continue, though it is slowing down. In countries with scant legislation and/or enforcement on emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), further market penetration by water-borne systems will be slow. Also, in certain end-use sectors, solvent-borne paint systems wil continue to predominate. Those sectors include: marine paints, vehicle refinishes and corrosion-protection coatings. Within Freedonia’s report, the chapter on company profiles covers: AkzoNobel (including Sico and Changzhou Prime Automotive Paints); Asian Paints (including Berger International and Apco Coatings); BASF, Berger Paints (of India); Berkshire Hathaway (and its subsidiary Benjamin Moore); Boero; Brillux; Consorcio Comex (including Color Wheel Paint, Kwal Paint, General Paint, Frazee and Parker Paint); Dai Nippon Toryo; Deutsche Amphibolin; DunnEdwards; DuPont; Empils (of Russia); Flügger; Helios; Hempel; Jotun; Kansai Paint; KCC (of South Korea); KellyMoore; Masco (including Behr and Masterchem); Matéris; Nippon Paint; PPG Industries; Rock Paint; RPM International (including Rust-Oleum, Zinsser, Carboline and others); Sherwin-Williams; Tikkurila; and Valspar (including Wattyl and Huarun Paints). Original Source: ‘Coatings to 2015’ (Report 2845), 380 pp. Price: $6100 (electronic *.PDF format). Original Source: ‘US Paint & Coatings to 2015’ (Report 2812), 348 pp. Price: $4900 (electronic *.PDF format). Both available from: Freedonia Inc, 767 Beta Drive, Cleveland, OH 44143, USA, tel: +1 (440) 684 9600, website: http://www.freedoniagroup.com © Freedonia 2012
PLANTS Canada & Singapore: Cancarb – carbon black Cancarb Ltd recently opened a new warehouse in Singapore for storing carbon black, which will improve security of supply for its customers throughout Asia. Cancarb is one of the few companies in the world producing the high-quality N-990 carbon black grade employing the thermal process, as distinct from the widely used furnace process. Cancarb’s sole production facility is a
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45,000 tonnes/y plant at Medicine Hat in western Canada. Mr Brad Thompson (Marketing Manager, Asia/Pacific) commented: “This warehouse addition also allows us to better serve our customers in India by giving us increased access to the smaller Indian ports and more freight options than are available directly from Canada.” Original Source: European Rubber Journal, 16 Mar 2012, (Website: http://www.european-rubberjournal.com/) © Crain Communications Ltd 2012
China: Cabot & Risun – carbon black The creation of a 60:40 joint venture between Cabot Corp and Risun Coal Chemicals, with a view to building a 130,000 tonnes/y carbon black plant at Xingtai (Hebei province) was first announced in March 2011. (See ‘Focus on Pigments’, May 2011, 5-6). Thirteen months later, the foundation stone was laid, marking the start of construction work on the project. Budgeted investment in the project has increased from $100 M to $140 M and the target start-up date has shifted by about six months to “mid2013.” The plant has been designed so as to facilitate ready expansion to 300,000 tonnes/y in due course. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 23 Apr 2012, (590), 6 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie/) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
France: SA Color – pigments for food, cosmetics, paints & plasterwork Further details have been revealed on SA Color’s €3 M project to build a new pigments plant at Canteleu, near Rouen (See ‘Focus on Pigments’, Dec 2011, 6). There will be six production lines – three lines for Effercol food colorants (E-171, titanium dioxide, and E-172, iron oxides); two lines for Easysperse pigments for paints, paper and plasterwork; and one line for Effercos and Watersperse cosmetic colorants. The plant is expected to be commissioned in July 2012 and should be in full-scale operation by the beginning of 2013. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 16 Apr 2012, (589), 8 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
Germany: Clariant – research centre Clariant has committed €100 M to building a new research centre at its
Frankfurt-Hoechst chemical complex. The building will have 3.6 hectares of floorspace and about 500 scientists will be employed here. At a special ceremony on 29 February 2012, the foundation stone for the new centre was laid. Dr Ulrich Ott said: “Our global research activities will be centred here in Frankfurt. The city offers a number of infrastructure advantages, including an attractive industrial park, proximity to business partners and universities and excellent connections to the transport network.” Frankfurt-Hoechst is already an important site for Clariant’s production of pigments, additives and paper chemicals. An impressive feature of the new research centre will be the large 3-D molecular model of the aluminium salt of diethyl phosphinic acid (DEPAL), the key ingredient in Clariant’s Exolit OP range of flame retardants. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 12 Mar 2012, (584), 7 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie/) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
Germany: RTP – plastic compounds RTP Co (headquartered in Winona, MN) has acquired Clariant’s global business in electrically conductive plastic compounds and it has begun moving various items of equipment, including a Banbury mixer, from Clariant’s plant at Ahrensburg (25 km northeast of Hamburg) to its own manufacturing site at Ladenburg (about 15 km east of Mannheim, Germany). Clariant has stated that its existing agreement with Bayer Material Science regarding compounds and masterbatches based on Baytube carbon nanotubes will not be affected. RTP opened the Ladenburg complex in April 2011, housing plants for the custom manufacture of plastic compounds and for making long-fibre composite materials. Mr Hugh Miller (President & CEO) said: “Our acquisition of Clariant’s conductive compound business further enhances our global leadership position in the plastics compounding industry by expanding our existing conductive products portfolio.” Besides Ladenburg, RTP’s other European production site is at Beaune (45 km southwest of Dijon, France). In the US, RTP makes custom plastic compounds at: Winona, MN; South
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PLANTS Canada & Singapore: Cancarb – carbon black Cancarb Ltd recently opened a new warehouse in Singapore for storing carbon black, which will improve security of supply for its customers throughout Asia. Cancarb is one of the few companies in the world producing the high-quality N-990 carbon black grade employing the thermal process, as distinct from the widely used furnace process. Cancarb’s sole production facility is a
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45,000 tonnes/y plant at Medicine Hat in western Canada. Mr Brad Thompson (Marketing Manager, Asia/Pacific) commented: “This warehouse addition also allows us to better serve our customers in India by giving us increased access to the smaller Indian ports and more freight options than are available directly from Canada.” Original Source: European Rubber Journal, 16 Mar 2012, (Website: http://www.european-rubberjournal.com/) © Crain Communications Ltd 2012
China: Cabot & Risun – carbon black The creation of a 60:40 joint venture between Cabot Corp and Risun Coal Chemicals, with a view to building a 130,000 tonnes/y carbon black plant at Xingtai (Hebei province) was first announced in March 2011. (See ‘Focus on Pigments’, May 2011, 5-6). Thirteen months later, the foundation stone was laid, marking the start of construction work on the project. Budgeted investment in the project has increased from $100 M to $140 M and the target start-up date has shifted by about six months to “mid2013.” The plant has been designed so as to facilitate ready expansion to 300,000 tonnes/y in due course. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 23 Apr 2012, (590), 6 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie/) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
France: SA Color – pigments for food, cosmetics, paints & plasterwork Further details have been revealed on SA Color’s €3 M project to build a new pigments plant at Canteleu, near Rouen (See ‘Focus on Pigments’, Dec 2011, 6). There will be six production lines – three lines for Effercol food colorants (E-171, titanium dioxide, and E-172, iron oxides); two lines for Easysperse pigments for paints, paper and plasterwork; and one line for Effercos and Watersperse cosmetic colorants. The plant is expected to be commissioned in July 2012 and should be in full-scale operation by the beginning of 2013. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 16 Apr 2012, (589), 8 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
Germany: Clariant – research centre Clariant has committed €100 M to building a new research centre at its
Frankfurt-Hoechst chemical complex. The building will have 3.6 hectares of floorspace and about 500 scientists will be employed here. At a special ceremony on 29 February 2012, the foundation stone for the new centre was laid. Dr Ulrich Ott said: “Our global research activities will be centred here in Frankfurt. The city offers a number of infrastructure advantages, including an attractive industrial park, proximity to business partners and universities and excellent connections to the transport network.” Frankfurt-Hoechst is already an important site for Clariant’s production of pigments, additives and paper chemicals. An impressive feature of the new research centre will be the large 3-D molecular model of the aluminium salt of diethyl phosphinic acid (DEPAL), the key ingredient in Clariant’s Exolit OP range of flame retardants. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 12 Mar 2012, (584), 7 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie/) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
Germany: RTP – plastic compounds RTP Co (headquartered in Winona, MN) has acquired Clariant’s global business in electrically conductive plastic compounds and it has begun moving various items of equipment, including a Banbury mixer, from Clariant’s plant at Ahrensburg (25 km northeast of Hamburg) to its own manufacturing site at Ladenburg (about 15 km east of Mannheim, Germany). Clariant has stated that its existing agreement with Bayer Material Science regarding compounds and masterbatches based on Baytube carbon nanotubes will not be affected. RTP opened the Ladenburg complex in April 2011, housing plants for the custom manufacture of plastic compounds and for making long-fibre composite materials. Mr Hugh Miller (President & CEO) said: “Our acquisition of Clariant’s conductive compound business further enhances our global leadership position in the plastics compounding industry by expanding our existing conductive products portfolio.” Besides Ladenburg, RTP’s other European production site is at Beaune (45 km southwest of Dijon, France). In the US, RTP makes custom plastic compounds at: Winona, MN; South
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