regulatory needs for stronger
and more secure packaging,”
said Jon Fecteau, global direc-
tor of product management for
Huber’s Silica Business Unit. “Not only
do the polyethylene bags offer superior
performance, they also provide increased
printing and labeling options. We are
pleased to be able to provide this best in
market option for many of our high qual-
ity silica products.”
The new packaging platform is be-
ing introduced systematically across the
globe with equipment in place for select
production facilities in the European and
Americas regions, with the intention to
introduce in Asia in 2017.
CPMA Participates in 20th
Annual ACS GCI Green
Chemistry and Engineering
Conference
Members of the Color Pigments
Manufacturers Association, Inc. (CPMA)
provided industry expertise about the
chemical properties and performance requirements of color pigments during the
20th Annual ACS Green Chemistry and
Engineering Conference held in Portland,
Oregon, June 14-16.
Mary Ellen Maxwell, past president
of CPMA and Product Stewardship
manager, North America at Clariant
Corporation, discussed the safety and
efficacy of color pigments in commerce,
contrasting industry sustainability practices with environmental conceptions.
She particularly focused on color pigments applications in paints and coatings.
Robert Mott, Ph.D., chair of CPMA’s
Organic Pigments Committee and Global
Regulatory Manager at Sun Chemical
Corporation, was one of four participants
in the Green Chemistry for a Rainbow of
Colorants workshop and panel discussion
organized by Northwest Green Chemistry.
Dr. Mott shared insight on the chemistry of
color pigments used in printing inks and
the engineering of green chemistry solutions to achieve product stewardship goals.
Other workshop participants included Dr. Robert Christie, Heriot-Watt
University; Dr. Romesh Kumar, Clariant
Corporation; and Thomas Schaefer,
Bluesign Technologies.
The ACS GCI Green Chemistry &
Engineering Conference provides a
unique platform for leaders, policy makers, educators, students and professionals from the scientific community to
obtain valuable knowledge on progress
in greener chemistry and engineering research. This year’s theme was “Advancing
Sustainable Solutions by Design.”
Emery Oleochemicals
Expands Technical
Development Center in
Cincinnati
Emery Oleochemicals, a natural-based
chemicals producer and largest oleochemicals manufacturer in North America, announced earlier this year the completion
of its new 7,500 square foot Technical
Development Center (TDC). This center will
now also serve as the state-of-the-art application lab for the company’s Green Polymer
Additives Business to offer renewable and
innovative polymer additive solutions to
high growth markets such as automotive,
building and construction, electronics, packaging as well as toys and sports equipment.
The new application lab in Cincinnati
provides Emery Oleochemicals’ Green
Polymer Additives (GPA) customers with
regional value-added services through
its dedicated Application Testing and en-
hances the Emery Oleochemicals’ Global
Technical Development Center capabili-
ties in Loxstedt, Germany, which opened
in 2013. Staffed by a dedicated technical
team utilizing state-of-the-art equipment,
the new Cincinnati lab capabilities include:
•Custom lubricant and plasticizer
development, scale-up of LOXIOL
ester lubricants and EDENOL plas-
ticizers in our state of the art multi-
purpose reactor,
• Formulation and applications test-
ing for rigid and flexible PVC as well
as development in engineered resins
to provide technical solutions for
many of today’s market segments
from building and construction to
medical applications, and
•Full analytical support for lubri-
cant and plasticizer development
and modern analysis including
NMR, FTIR, SPME, GC/MS, HPLC,
HPLC/MS, DSC TGA and
viscosity measurement as well as
physical testing to measure percent-
age elongation, compression and
tensile strength.
• In addition our state of the art lab is
equipped with weathering devices to
simulate weathering characteristics
of the finished article.
Dr. Harald Klein, global business director, Green Polymer Additive Business
said of the opening, “Our lab housed
in the TDC in Cincinnati is specifically
designed to leverage our in-depth application knowledge of polymer processes
and technical capabilities to deliver
customizable market-ready solutions to
the North American Market. By providing our customers with the latest innovations, we aim to be an instrumental
partner in the development of polymer
additives that are sustainable, environmentally friendly and exceed the requirements in today’s polymer industry.”
The renewable and innovative polymer
additive solutions will be offered to the
market under the well-known global
brands of LOXIOL and EDENOL.
With its local Green Polymer application lab capabilities, the Cincinnati TDC
can be seen as another key milestone backing the business unit vision to be ‘The first
choice in sustainable polymer additives’.
Explains Michael Hoppe, Senior Sales
Manager Specialties, “Our continued investment in the US into technical development capabilities combined with the recent
completion of our $50 Million (USD)
bio-based and recycled content ester plant,
also located in Cincinnati, places the Emery
Oleochemicals’ Green Polymer Business in
a prime position to be the preferred partner for the plastics industry by offering renewable and innovative polymer additive
solutions such as lubricants, plasticizers,
anti-fogging, anti-static, and release agents.”
ALTANA Expands
Additive Business Through
Acquisition of Addcomp
Specialty chemicals group ALTANA has
acquired the Dutch enterprise Addcomp
Holland BV, a developer and manufacturer of unique polymer additive solutions. Addcomp will be integrated into
the Plastic Additives business line of
