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Adhesives manufacturer builds new plant in Egypt / Development of biodegradable adhesives with CovestroNew plant being built near Cairo (Image: HB Fuller)To strengthen its presence in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, adhesives manufacturer HB Fuller (Saint Paul, Minnesota / USA; www.hbfuller.com) is building a new plant near the Egyptian capital of Cairo. At the end of 2022, the current sales and production unit is to move into the 37,000 m² building in â??CPC Industrial Parkâ?. This will be accompanied by a doubling of current production capacities. HB Fuller produces adhesives in Egypt for use in packaging films, paper-plastic laminates and labels.
At the same time, the US company, worth USD 2.8 bn (EUR 2.38 bn) by sales, is working with Covestro (Leverkusen / Germany; www.covestro.com) to develop reactive hot-melt adhesives for biodegradable films and paper-film laminates. The renewable raw material content, which HB Fuller obtains from Covestro, is calculated according to the mass balance principle. The resulting â??Flextraâ? adhesives have been certified by the Biodegradable Products Institute (www.bpiworld.org) in the US, whose advisory board is dominated by producers such as BASF, TotalCorbion and NatureWorks, among others.16.08.2021 Plasteurope.com [248318-0]