US plant opens for business

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 25, 2003

Premix Thermoplastics has opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Milton, Wisconsin.

Premix Thermoplastics has opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Milton, Wisconsin.

Premix Thermoplastics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Premix Oy of Finland, a leader in conductive plastics technology in Europe.

The 2300m2 facility will have three compounding lines in operation by the end of 2003 with an annual capacity of more than 2250t.

In addition to production, the facility will also have development and sampling capabilities with a complete test laboratory.

Premix Thermoplastics formulates its compounds using most of the commercially available thermoplastic resins and all of the electrically conductive additives including: carbon black, carbon fibres, nickel coated carbon fibres, stainless-steel fibres, metal flake and powders, inherently dissipative polymers (IDP) and inherently conductive polymers (ICP).

Premix Thermoplastics can custom formulate electrically conductive compounds for a wide range of applications including thermoplastic elastomers, polyolefins, styrenics or engineering polymers.