ICO EUROPE
Group specialising in raw materials, services and moulds for rotomoulding
Ico Polymers (NL-3295 KG´s Gravendeel; www.icoeuropebv.com) rates itself one of the leading European suppliers of polymer powder for rotomoulding, masterbatch production, coating and laminating. The company also produces special products for textile applications, one shot foam polymers and conductive PE powder. The company´s latest development is called “Icorene K3300”, a series of powders for rotomoulding based on “Hytrel”, a thermoplastic polyester elastomer by DuPont. The viscous-flexible material is specially designed for automotive applications such as hinge covers, pipes, fuel tanks, flexible tubes and damping mats.
For customer support, Ico Polymers is operating three technical centres in Europe. The facilities all have rotomoulding lines with a corresponding “Rotolog Diagnostic System”. During the moulding process, this system supplies information from the inside of the mould cavity thus providing an opportunity for improvement. Hence, product development and improvement programmes can be executed which supports the design and raw material selection process. Moreover, the system allows an assessment of the properties of the different materials available on the market and the analysis of technical problems. In addition to that, new materials are being developed. The new materials as well as those already available on the market will be assessed with regard to their correspondence to industry-specific and national specifications and regulations.
Ico Polymers is a subsidiary of the US company Ico Inc. (www.icoinc.com), which was founded in 1970 as a small company for oil field services and today achieves a turnover in excess of USD 200m in the area of rotomoulding. The Ico group also includes Wedco group (Europe: NL-3295 KG´s Gravendeel; www.wedco.nl) which has been operating in the area of commercial grinding and compounding. Services include ambient grinding for pellet sizes up to 200µm, cryogenic grinding for pellet sizes up to 80µm and air pressure jet mill grinding for pellet sizes up to 2µm. Ico´s service range is complemented by the British company Fabri- Moulds (GB-Rushden, Northampshire; www.fabri-moulds.co.uk) which offers moulds for rotomoulding.
Reader Service: Press release on “Icorene K3300”, Ico Polymers, Wedco and Fabri-Moulds: PIE-No. 45559.
For customer support, Ico Polymers is operating three technical centres in Europe. The facilities all have rotomoulding lines with a corresponding “Rotolog Diagnostic System”. During the moulding process, this system supplies information from the inside of the mould cavity thus providing an opportunity for improvement. Hence, product development and improvement programmes can be executed which supports the design and raw material selection process. Moreover, the system allows an assessment of the properties of the different materials available on the market and the analysis of technical problems. In addition to that, new materials are being developed. The new materials as well as those already available on the market will be assessed with regard to their correspondence to industry-specific and national specifications and regulations.
Ico Polymers is a subsidiary of the US company Ico Inc. (www.icoinc.com), which was founded in 1970 as a small company for oil field services and today achieves a turnover in excess of USD 200m in the area of rotomoulding. The Ico group also includes Wedco group (Europe: NL-3295 KG´s Gravendeel; www.wedco.nl) which has been operating in the area of commercial grinding and compounding. Services include ambient grinding for pellet sizes up to 200µm, cryogenic grinding for pellet sizes up to 80µm and air pressure jet mill grinding for pellet sizes up to 2µm. Ico´s service range is complemented by the British company Fabri- Moulds (GB-Rushden, Northampshire; www.fabri-moulds.co.uk) which offers moulds for rotomoulding.
Reader Service: Press release on “Icorene K3300”, Ico Polymers, Wedco and Fabri-Moulds: PIE-No. 45559.
04.04.2002 Plasteurope.com [16098]
Published on 04.04.2002