and effective fire protection for their finished goods.
Pekoflam HFC p is an organic
phosphorous/nitrogen compound with
excellent performance on synthetic
materials, including polyamide fibers
and blends. The unique chemistry displays higher efficiency compared to
commonly used nitrogen and/or phosphorous based chemicals. It is also applicable in water-based systems as well
as in Oeko-Tex Standard 100 compliant ‘green’ solvent based coating systems, hence offers a higher flexibility
to fabric coaters serving different end-use segments. The ecological profile
enables use in both indirect and direct
skin contact applications.
“The primary advantage of Pekoflam
HFC is its ability to combine the effects
and properties of selected halogenated
and non-halogenated technologies in a
fire protection solution for various coating polymers. Pekoflam HFC thus offers
a sustainable long-term alternative for
synthetic textile applications, meeting
the criteria of the Oeko-Tex Standard
100 and responding to the general trend
towards more environmentally-com-patible materials and end-products that
pose significantly lower risks to health,”
said Michael Schuhmann, global segment manager Flame Retardants, Textile
Specialties Business, Archroma.
Bader Gains Daimler
Group Supplier Approval
for Advanced Composite
Materials, Structural
Adhesive
Scott Bader has recently become an approved composites materials supplier of
molding and structural adhesive products to all of the production facilities
around the world which make up the
Daimler AG Group of manufacturing companies: Mercedes-Benz Cars,
Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans,
and Daimler Buses. Approved FRP lamination products supplied includes Scott
Bader’s unique technology ‘ultra-low styrene content’ Crystic Ecogel S1PA spray
gelcoat to help reduce styrene emission
levels in Daimler factories without any
loss of end use application performance.
Closed mold grades of Crystic unsaturated polyester resins are also supplied
to the Daimler AG Group and approved
subcontract convertors fabricating composite vehicle parts.
Within Daimler Trucks, Crestabond
M1-05 primer less methacrylate structural adhesive is now specified for a
variety of HGV applications. This includes M1-05 being used to bond ABS
to ABS and ABS to aluminium components together as part of the assembly
process used to fabricate the sleeping
bunk in the driver’s cab of Freightliner
Trucks in North America. The bonding of these ABS and aluminium bunk
parts with Crestabond M1-05 is carried
out by a local subcontract thermoform-ing specialist, which supplies assembled
bunks to the Freightliner Trucks Saltillo
assembly plant in Mexico, where the
bunks are installed on the truck cabin
production line.
Freightliner Trucks is the largest business division of Daimler Trucks North
America. The company produces medium
and heavy duty trucks for a broad range
of commercial applications at its production plants in the United States and
Mexico.
BASF, Partners Cooperate
to Optimize Production
Processes for Renewable-
Based Products
A consortium of companies in the
European process industry from the areas
of biotechnology, renewable resources,
chemistry, process engineering, equipment supply as well as research organizations recently launched project PRODIAS
(PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems).
The project focuses on unlocking the potential of renewable-based products made
via white biotechnology, by significantly
decreasing production costs, increasing
productivity and efficiency, lowering energy consumption, and accelerating process developments.
Under the consortial leadership
of BASF, the partners include: Cargill
Haubourdin, France; University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany; Imperial
College London, Great Britain; Alfa
Laval, Sweden; GEA Messo PT, the
Netherlands; Xendo, the
Netherlands; UPM, Finland, and
Enviplan, Germany. These part-
ners will collaborate to develop
cost and energy-efficient technologies for
water purification, removal and product-
recovery needed to support downstream
processing in white biotechnology.
Using biotechnological methods
such as fermentation or biocatalysis, in
most cases the renewable-based products are produced as part of complex
dilute aqueous mixtures from which
they have to be purified. This includes
the removal of a vast amount of water,
making the downstream process energy
intensive as it often requires many complex consecutive separation steps and
thus hampers the cost-competitiveness
of products from renewable resources.
Furthermore, processing methods developed for chemical production are often
used which are insufficiently adapted to
biotechnological processes.
PRODIAS aims to address these
challenges by developing and implementing cost-effective separation and
purification technologies tailored for
renewable resources in white biotechnology production processes. Its focus
is to adapt separation techniques to the
need of white biotechnology products
and to design novel hybrid systems
combining individual advantages, for
example, selectivity and energy efficiency. The bioreactions (
fermentations) and biocatalysis by which the
valuable products are produced are
subject to alteration and optimization,
to enable more efficient and resource-saving downstream processing.
The total project budget is approximately € 14 million with the European
Union contributing € 10 million. EU
funding of the PRODIAS project is enabled via the Public-Private Partnership
with SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry
through Resource and Energy Efficiency).
SPIRE, in turn, is part of Horizon 2020,
the EU framework program for research
and innovation, which runs from 2014 to
2020 and comprises an €80 billion budget. In partnership with industry, the EU
will invest in innovative technologies for
sustainable processes. CW
