Modern Plastics Worldwide - October 2007 - dae uptlax

FIRST LOOK
standard width of 610 mm and custom
rolls to 1500 mm. Film-stock rolls can be
slit down to 45 mm (see MPW July 2007
First Look for initial report).
SAP added PEEK to its portfolio via the
May 2006 purchase of Gharda Chemical’s
polymers business in India. That 60-acre
location included a 500-tonnes/yr PEEK
Hall 1
Booth B 08
production unit scheduled to come online
in Q1 2008. That line could be doubled to
1000 tonnes/yr, depending on demand.
DuPont expands Asia
PA compounding
DuPont Engineering Polymers (Wilmington,
DE) has completed an expansion of
Solutions for Plastics.
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compounding capacity for its range of
Zytel nylon 6 and 66 resins in Ulsan,
Korea. The expansion adds 20,000
tonnes/yr of new capacity and comes in
response to rapid regional demand
growth for reinforced nylon resins, especially
from the automotive industry.
Glass- or mineral-reinforced nylon resins
meet demanding needs in automotive
underhood applications such as air-intake
manifolds, cylinder head covers, and
many diverse applications in the electronics
and electrical equipment markets.
In recent years, DuPont Engineering
Polymers has made several investments
in the region. These include plans to
build a new polymer plant to produce
DuPont Zytel HTN high-performance
polyamide and DuPont Vespel parts and
shapes in Singapore. The company has
also invested in the DuPont Research
and Development Center in Shanghai,
China and the DuPont Automotive Center
in Nagoya, Japan.
Lite-On gobbles Perlos
Taiwanese optoelectronics supplier Lite-
On has made a €277 million bid to
acquire all of publicly traded Perlos
(Espoo, Finland), a leader in molding and
assembly of cellphone components. The
offer, almost a 41% jump over Perlos’
closing price before it was made, has the
approval of Perlos’ leading shareholders.
Perlos earlier this year closed its last
two facilities in Finland and has laid off
about 1100 workers in that time frame.
A plant in Ft. Worth, TX also was
closed, with work there shifted to a site
in Mexico.
Lite-On’s move almost mirrors that
of one of its top competitors, Foxconn,
which in 2003 acquired Eimo, another
Finnish processor of cellphone housings.
Crownbrook Debco
adds Nicos to plasticsrecycling
portfolio
As part of its bid to become a national
force in plastics recycling, Crownbrook
Debco has acquired size-reduction and
separation firm Nicos Polymers and
Grinding Inc. (Nazareth, PA), including
its 180,000-ft 2 facility, which employs
88. Crownbrook Debco, which is
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