Tag: Orion

Orion launches biobased carbon black for inks

Speciality chemical firm Orion S.A. has announced it has launched Printex Nature 35 – a carbon black made of 100% bio-circular feedstocks. The new product provides the same performance as Orion’s Printex 35 and can be used for a wide variety of printing applications,…

Orion scammed of US$60 mn through wire fraud

Chemical firm Orion S.A., a producer of carbon black, says it has lost approximately US$60 million through “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.” The company lost the money after an employee was duped…

Orion launches high-jetness carbon black for polymers market

US-based speciality chemicals firm Orion S.A. has launched Printex chroma 500 Beads, a high-jetness (a complex function of surface area, primary particle size, and degree of dispersion) carbon black designed for the engineered plastics market that demands high aesthetic quality.…

Orion invests in French tyre recycling facility

Speciality chemicals firm Orion S.A. says it is investing in Alpha Carbone, a French tyre recycling company. The partnership will enable Alpha Carbone to scale up and produce commercial volumes of tyre pyrolysis oil and recovered carbon black. The cooperation…

Orion opens second carbon black plant in China

Speciality chemicals firm Orion has celebrated the completion of its first greenfield project – a carbon black plant in eastern China that will supply fast-growing demand in Asia. The facility in the city of Huaibei in Anhui province will produce…

Orion reduces air emissions with new technology in US plant

US carbon blacks supplier Orion Engineered Carbons says it will sharply reduce air emissions at its Borger, Texas, plant with new control technology. The US$60 million project also involved upgrading the site’s cogeneration system, which takes heat created by the carbon…

Orion to expand carbon black output in Louisiana

Carbon black supplier Orion Engineered Carbons says that next year the company will invest to convert a reactor line at its plant in Ivanhoe, Louisiana, US, from manufacturing soft carbon black to producing hard carbon black, commonly used in tyre treads.…