WCA July 2012

Industry news

Tratos wins Baghdad refinery cable contract Specialist cable manufacturer Tratos Cavi SpA has been awarded a €1 million contract to supply Iraq’s state-owned Midland Refineries Company (MRC) with cables for installation at the Daura Refinery in Baghdad. litres of kerosene and 2 million litres of gas oil, along with other products going to local power plants and for industrial use.  

Tratos Cavi has been producing cables for use in the oil and gas industry throughout its 40 year history. The cables are manufactured to all relevant American, British and European standards including BS6883, NEK 606 and UKOOA.

A range of power cables, high temperature cables and fire resistant cables have been supplied to MRC, a new customer for Tratos, as part of the modernisation process of the refinery. The Daura refinery, located in the south of Baghdad, was constructed in 1953 and started operations in 1955.  It daily produces three million litres of gasoline, 1.5 million

Tratos Cavi SpA – Italy Website : www.tratos.it

It’s Shanghai boom time for Evonik

To meet the constantly growing demand for biopolyamides, Evonik Industries began to undertake extensive measures to increase production capacities for the bio-based Vestamid ® Terra polymers at the beginning of this year. As an essential component of this plan, an additional compounding facility will become operational in the third quarter of 2012 in Shanghai, China. The new facility will safeguard long-term supplies for speciality compounds, both to existing markets and for many new fields of application. Measures for capacity expansion in the area of polymerisation are also in the works. The commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2013. Demand for renewably sourced materials has risen substantially in recent years, because, for one, many customers wish to conserve resources sustainably. Evonik’s Vestamid ® Terra product line offers a broad range of renewably sourced high-performance polyamides whose properties are comparable with strictly oil-based polyamides.

New company for distribution

Joe Snee has announced the formation of Joe Snee Associates, Inc of Seekonk, Massachusetts. The company will serve as the exclusive North American distributor for the Pressure Welding Machine (PWM) line of cold pressure welders, dies and spares. Snee has nearly 20 years’ experience in the wire and cable industry and has sold cold welding products since 1992. Joe Snee Associates – USA Website : www.coldpressurewelding.com

Vestamid ® Terra is used in innovative, high-quality products for the electronics, sports, hygiene and cosmetics, and automotive industries.

Its CO 2 footprint is impressively small: Viewed across its entire lifecycle, Vestamid ® Terra’s footprint is more favourable than that attributable to ordinary polyamides made from fossil-based resources. Vestamid ® Terra products therefore make a valuable contribution to reducing the greenhouse effect. A broad spectrum of eco-certification – including among others USDA, DIN and Certco – has confirmed this.

Evonik Industries – Germany Website : www.vestamid-terra.com

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