Vol. 17, No. 9, Page 13

ACQUISITION

COLOURED UNIVERSAL MASTERBATCHES

COLOUR MATCHING

Perstorp, in Sweden, is to acquire part of the Finnish plastics company Treston Oy.

Begg & Co. (U.K.) has developed a range of 33 coloured universal masterbatches under the name of UNICORN. These are light- fast and heat stable and suitable for most food contact applications, at around 1% use levels.

The colour matching cabinet from Heraeus (U.K.) known as the VARIOLUX, now has enhanced capabilities. It is equipped with cool white fluorescent light; UV light; daylight; tungsten filament and departmental store light sources.

PVC WIRE AND CABLE These masterbatches, available from C. P. Hall in the U.K., COLOURED MASTERBATCHES are intended for use levels of 1% instead of the usual 4%.

Made-to-order colour batches are prepared using computerised colour match prediction equipment.

IMPACT MODIFIERS Rohm & Haas in the U.S. has issued a brochure describing its PARALOID range of impact modifiers and processing aids for PVC packaging applications such as clear bottles, sheet and film, and for injection moulded components. They have low viscosities and good flow properties.

IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS Croxton & Garry, Dorking, Surrey (1J.K.) has been appointed as U.K. and Ireland distributor for the PUROFER range of synthe- tic iron oxide pigments manufactured by Cremades of Spain. These pigments are available in three shades of red and three shades of yellow.

POLYTHENE FIBRE PLANTS

Two plants for the manufacture of Dyneema, the ultra strong polyethylene fibre developed by DSM, are to be built by the

joint venture run by the Dutch group and Toyobo of Japan. Europe and Japan will each be the site for a production unit, and total capacity will initially be several hundred tonnes a year. Provision is being made to increase this total to more than 1000 tonnes a year in the future.

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