November 2009

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Special features

  • The latest advances in flame retardant technology
  • China's leading producers of masterbatches
  • The implications of REACH legislation for compounders
  • Continuous mixers deliver high filler loadings
  • Benchmark the performance of your additives

Regular items

  • Business news including Clariant, Schulman, PolyOne, AEI Compounds, Ter Hell and ShengdaTech
  • Fakuma review including news from Automatik, Leistritz, Akro-Plastic, BASF, and Reimelt-Henschel
  • The latest polymers and additives from Evonik, Arkema, Bayer, Lubrizol, Dow, Dugdale and Clariant
  • Compounder of the month: Nord Color
  • Dates for your diary - we look ahead to the major plastics industry exhibitions of the next 12 months, plus the most important conferences for the compounding market

Editorial index

A. Schulman - plans for masterbatch plant in India 5
A. Schulman: additive masterbatch, Dongguan, China 12
Additives for Polyolefins by Michael Tolinski - review 48
AEI Compounds relocation - Gravesend to Sandwich 6
Akro-Plastics - Akromid PA6.10 and Akromid T 44
Arkema bio-based Pebax Rnew 100 TPEs 46
Automatik Plastics Machinery EBG pelletizer 43
BASF - Jay Ghosh 18
BASF all plastic seat for Opel Insignia OPC 44
Bayer MaterialScience - new Leda colours 46
Benchmarking the performance of polymer additives 38
Book reviews 48
Cabot Plastics black masterbatch plant in Hong Kong 9
Caccia Engineering turbo mixer control system 31
Cereplast - algae-based plastics 46
Changzhou Hongmei Plastics Masterbatch 10
Chem Polymer - Todd Bresson 18
Chem Polymer Chemlon 225 GVNH 23
Chemtura - Keith Hughes 15
Chemtura - polymeric brominated flame retardants 22
China masterbatch markets and leading suppliers 8-12
Ciba / BASF - Melapur flame retardants 18
Clariant - Hendrik Kammler 16
Clariant - job losses; Lachine, Milford, Tatarstan. 4
Clariant - Tim Reilly - Exoloit OP 18
Clariant masterbatch plant in Guangzhou 10
Clariant new halogen-free FR masterbatch 22
Clariant PV Fast Red HGR pigment 47
Compounding natural fibres with mixers 29
Continuous mixers for compounding high filler loadings 25
Decroupet twin-screw compounding extruder 44
Dow, API and GoldenPlast - footwear compounds 47
Dugdale antimicrobial PVC compounds 47
Ecopiren Magnesium Hydroxide flame retardant 17
ETHIC European Thermoplastic Independent Compounders 36
EuPC - Geoffroy Tillieux 32
European Chemicals Agency - Chemical Safety Report 32
Evonik Vestamid EX9203 PA12 cable compound 46
Fakuma 2009 exhibition review 43-44
Farrel continuous mixer CP125 25
Fire Resistance 2009 conference 20
Flame Retardant Associates - James Innes 17
Flame retardants - technology developments 14-23
Foshan Nanhai Jolink Plasticolor Masterbatch 10
Geert Dancet, European Chemicals Agency 33
Guangdong Charming Company, Xinhui, Jinan, Foshan 10
Guangdong Hengchang Chemical additive masterbatch 10, 12
Guangzhou Bosi Plastic Pigments 10
Guangzhou Eastern Rainbow Masterbatch Factory 10
Handbook of Fillers by George Wypych - review 48
Harburg-Freudenberger mixer for WPCs 29
ICL Industrial Products - Mike Goode 15
ICL Industrial Products F-3100, Safron 5371, FR-20 22
Industry Guide To Nanocomposites - Guenter Beyer 20
Ineos closing PVC compounds plant in Helsby, UK 6
ITRI - Fireproof - Dr Paul Cusack 38
JJI Technologies Jemini 100 polymer modifier 47
Kabelwerk Eupen - Dr Gunter Beyer 18
Kumho Petrochemical - ABS compounding Foshan 6
Lati launches Latigea bio-based compounds 6
Leistritz delivers fist ZSE 180 Maxx extruder 6
Leistritz LSB Flexx side feeder 43
Lubrizol Stat-Rite conductive masterbatch 46
Meilian Chemical - leading white masterbatch maker 10
Mixing and Compounding of Polymers by Ica Manas-Zloczower - review 48
Nabaltec Boehmite AOH Apyral 180E Actilox 400 SM 22
Nanocomposites as flame retardants 20
Ngai Hing Hong - masterbatch plants in China 9
Ningbo Color Masterbatch 10
Nord Color - compounder of the month 50
Omya - tests on high calcium carbonate filler loadings 25
PEST Inititiative for REACH from EuPC & ETHIC 34
Plastics Additives Handbook 6th Edition review 48
PolyOne - Q3 2009 results - Brazil plans 4
PolyOne masterbatch in Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenzhen 10
PolyOne sells Geon Polimeros Andinos to Mexichem 6
Pomini Rubber & Plastics LCM continuous mixers 29
REACH legislation - implications for compounders 32-36
Reimelt-Henschel - now part of Zeppelin 44
Reimelt-Henschel high-speed batch mixer 29
ShengdaTech - NPCC - Anhui Chaodog acquisition 4
South East Asia Masterbatch Markets study - AMI 12
Technical Process & Engineering Inc (TPEI) 31
Teknor Apex Elaxar high performance HPFR TPE 23
Teknor Apex FireGuard plenum compounds 18
Ter Hell adds Berstorff lines in Germany and China 6
The REACH Club launched by EuPC 36
Top 50 Masterbatch Producers in China - AMI report 12
Toyota - Ecological Plastic bioplastics inside Sai 5
Videos - sample preparation, flame testing 39
Yangzi Huaqiang Color Masterbatch Factory 10

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AMI market reports and directories 45
AMI Strategy Seminars 37
Automatik Sphero underwater pelletizers 19
Cables 2010 conference - 10th anniversary 30
Century Extrusion / Ruiya extruders and parts 23
Coperion ZSK MEGAlab 31
Energy Management In Plastics Processing training 37
Farrel CP Series II Compact Processor 2
Fire Resistance 2009 conference 21
Fireproof / ITRI testing laboratory 19
Media Training for the Plastics Industry seminar 42
Nabaltec Apyral Apymag Actilox 19
Nanocyl carbon nanotubes 7
Plastics Information Direct polymer bookshop 28
Polymers in Photovoltaics 2010 conference 42
Shaw Industries recruiting Senior Technical Engineer 27
Sino-Alloy Machinery PSM twin-screw extrusion line 11
Thermoplastic Concentrates 2010 conference 24
Wacker Silicones Genioplast Pellet S 13
Xtrutech screw parts and barrels for twin-screw extruders 5