Swedish compounder Polykemi (Ystad; www.polykemi.se) has invested EUR 3m in four new twin-screw extruders, installed at its headquarters as well as its site in Kunshan / China. Aside from raising overall compounding capacity, the investment also raises the plastics recycling capacities of its Ystad-based subsidiary Rondo-Plast (www.rondoplast.se).

The group also announced that it had appointed Budapest-based HSH Chemie (Hungary; www.hsh-chemie.com) the new distributor for the Polykemi and Rondoplast portfolio in eastern Europe. HSH Chemie is part of the Ter Hell group (Hamburg / Germany; www.tergroup.com) and has been operating as a distributor in Hungary since 2000. At the same time, Polykemi announced that TLP – Teconologicplast (Valencia / Spain; www.tlp.com) had been named the new distributor for its portfolio in Spain.