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COMPANIES Ahlstrom to acquire Fiberweb's consumer wipes business COMPANIES Licensing agreement between Strandex and Doha Plastic Ahlstrom, a global leader in highperformance fibre-based materials, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the consumer wipes business of Fiberweb plc. Following the acquisition, Ahlstrom will become the third largest producer of nonwoven roll goods globally. The acquisition price is approximately EUR 65 million. The acquired business includes four plants, two of which are located in Italy, one in Spain and one in the USA. In 2006, the net sales of the acquired business amounted to EUR 110 million and it employed approximately 400 people. Ahlstrom anticipates closing the deal within the second quarter of 2007 subject to antitrust clearances. Fiberweb is one of the leading suppliers of high-performance specialty nonwoven fabrics globally. The wiping fabrics currently produced by Fiberweb's consumer wipes business are Doha Plastic, a company based in Doha Qatar, has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Strandex Corporation to manufacture wood-plastic composite profiles in countries across the Arabian Gulf region, including Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Located in a new 15,000-square-metre facility, Doha Plastic will utilise stateof-the-art fibre and polymer processing equipment to supply raw materials to the Strandex licensed production unit. The initial set-up incorporates four 86-mm twin conical extrusion lines supplied by Cincinnati Milacron, along with a full blending and compounding system Ticona selects Nanjing, China, for Celstran® LFRT facility JEC Composites Magazine / No33 June 2007 used mainly in personal care, baby care and household wipe applications. Following the deal, Ahlstrom will be the leading wiping fabrics producer in the world with manufacturing sites in Europe and in the USA. Furthermore, Ahlstrom announced in 2006 that it will expand its nonwovens production in South America by investing in a new wiping fabrics production line in Brazil. The new line will be operational in early 2008. www.ahlstrom.com and a range of finishing options. Doha Plastic will have an initial production capacity of 18,000 metric tons annually. The company is developing its own range of profiles for a variety of market sectors and offers an extensive OEM facility for anyone wanting to benefit from the high performance capabilities of a Strandex manufacturing facility. The marketleading Strandex technology will ensure that Doha Plastic will be able to produce a superior range of products to the same exacting standards the market is familiar with. The investment, worth US$10 million, incorporates not only standard Strandex PE-based technology, but also the recently released foaming (cellular) Strancel technology. www.strandex.com Vistagy and Jetcam expand global technology partnership Jetcam International, leaders in CAD/CAM and nesting for the sheet metal and composites industries, and Vistagy, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized engineering software, have announced an expanded business and technology partnership to help their joint customers more efficiently develop highlyengineered products made of advanced composite materials. This agreement follows development work between the companies to create a seamless exchange of 3D product data between Vistagy’s FiberSIM® composites design software and Jetcam’s Expert CAM and nesting software. This partnership will ensure that the products work together to offer users a seamless design and manufacturing environment – from conceptual design through to the cutting machine. www.vistagy.com Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, recently announced that it will build a new Celstran long fibrereinforced thermoplastic (LFRT) facility in Nanjing, China. The new plant is scheduled to be operational early in 2008. Investment in the new Celstran LFRT facility supports Ticona’s Asian growth strategy, which also includes previously announced plans to construct a production facility for GUR® ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. The new Celstran LFRT and GUR facilities will be co-located at the Celanese integrated chemical complex in Nanjing. When the new facility goes online in Nanjing, Ticona will have an annual global LFRT production capacity of more than 35,000 tons. At the present time, Ticona produces Celstran LFRT in Kelsterbach, Germany, and Winona, Minnesota. www.celanese.com
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #33 - June 2007

Editorial
Market Place
Advertisers & Index
Contents
NEWS WORLDWIDE
- Companies
- Agenda of events
- Innovations
BUSINESS
- Market survey
- Trends
- Niche markets
- Human capital
FEATURE - CONSTRUCTION
- Process
- Equipment
- Application
USERS’ PLATFORM
- Composites in the world
- Applications
KNOW-HOW
- Stretch-broken fibres
- Metal matrix
- Durability
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