Effective January 2018 ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH will acquire WIPAG Group, specialists inprocessing and production of carbon fiber compounds for injection-moulding, with sites in Neuburg (Donau), and Gardelegen (both in Germany).
With this acquisition ALBIS, the Hamburg distributor and compounder of technical thermoplastics, has invested further into its recycling activities. WIPAG’s innovative recycling technology takes waste carbon fiber, which comes mostly from the automotive industry, and processes it into reinforced carbon fiber compounds.
In future, ALBIS will offer polypropylene and polyamide Carbon fibre filled compounds, which offer excellent mechanical properties and low density. With PPCF compounds a significant weight and cost advantage compared with highly-filled, glass fiber reinforced PA types can be achieved, providing potential for exploitation of light-weighting requirements.