Extrusion International USA 1-2021

17 Extrusion International 1/2021 www.sml.at each detail matters for unrivalled performance Extrusion lines. Engineered to perform. Only a company who has a constant focus on the productivity of its customers thinks ahead and creates extrusion solutions that leave the rest standing. SML specialises in the development of extrusion lines for film, sheet, coating and lamination as well as multifilament spinning lines. Changes in the Board of Executive Directors „ The Supervisory Board of BASF SE appointed Dr. Melanie Maas-Brunner as a member of the Board of Executive Directors effective February 1, 2021. Maas-Brunner has been with BASF since 1997 and has headed BASF’s Nutrition & Health division since 2017. In her new role she will also take over the position as Chief Technology Of fi cer from Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF. She will assume responsibility for the three research divisions Advanced Materials & Systems Research, Bioscience Research, Process Re- search & Chemical Engineering as well as BASF New Business at that time. Wayne T. Smith is leaving the Board as of May 31, 2021. Smith has been with BASF for 16 years and has been a member of the Board since 2012. He is currently responsible for the divisions Monomers, Performance Materials, Petrochemicals, Interme- diates, Process Research & Chemical Engineering and North America. Michael Heinz will take over Smith’s responsibilities in North America after a transition period on June 1, 2021, and retain his responsibilities for South America. Maas-Brunner will addition- ally take over the tasks in the divisions European Site & Verbund Management, Global Engineering Services and Corporate Envi- ronmental Protection, Health & Safety as well as the role of the Industrial Relations Director fromHeinz on the same date. BASF SE www.basf.com Dr.MelanieMaas-Brunner Construction of an Extrusion System in Italy – Bottle Cycle Expediting „ The ALPLA Group is investing more than fi ve million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni in central italy. Anagni is home to one of the ALPLA Group’s most important preform production plants. The plant, which currently has a workforce of 91, processes around 50,000 tonnes of PET a year, ofwhichonly a very small proportion is recycledmaterial as of to- day. But in future a substantial portion of the volume required is henceforth to be supplied in the form of recycled material, giving custom- ers the option of sourcing preforms made partly or even entirely of rPET. To this end, ALPLA is installing an ex- trusion system for 15,000 tonnes of rPET a year at the existing business premises. It is scheduled to go into operation in the second half of 2021. Ten new jobs will be created. ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG www.alpla.com GeorgLässer, Headof CorporateRecycling atALPLA, considers the investment in central Italy tobea foresighted strategic decision: “We want topromote thebottle-to-bottle cycleand avoiddowncycling. Inaddition,wewould like toboost local recycling solutions ina region that does not have thenecessary infrastructure for thebottle loopup tonow. Thedemand for recycledmaterial can currentlybemanaged well. Butwith thismeasure,weareensuring thatwe canoffer our customers optimum supportwith realisingnewspeci fi cations and targets in the long termtooand thatwe canoffer themtop-quality recycledmaterials.” (Pictures, Copyright: ALPLA) TheALPLAGroup is investing inanextrusion systemfor recycledPETat its site inAnagni, Italy