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OEC to expand production capacity at German plant

FRANKFURT (Germany), June 14, 2019

Luxembourg-based Orion Engineered Carbons (OEC), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, has announced plans to expand its production capacity for gas blacks at its Cologne (Kalscheuren) plant, in Germany.

Orion is responding to the continuously growing global market for waterborne and solventborne coatings by debottlenecking our gas black production, said a company statement.

Orion’s gas blacks feature excellent fineness and a very narrow particle size distribution to provide the deepest blackness specialty carbon blacks available for demanding coatings customers, it said.

Corning Painter, chief executive officer, Orion, said: “The expansion of capacity in Cologne is one more step in the rapid realignment of our company’s portfolio toward higher value-added carbon blacks for specialty and technical rubber applications.”

Dr Sandra Niewiem, vice president, business line specialty carbon black, added: “Products from Cologne are shipped globally to customers in various high-end coatings and printing applications, including high jet automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and refinish, antistatic coatings as well as packaging and UV curing inks.”

“This initiative reflects the high confidence of our customers in our company’s products and technical support capabilities,” she added. – TradeArabia News Service




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