AEI Compounds: New €2.2m compounding line
UK-based specialist compounder AEI Compounds is installing a new €2.2m twin screw compounding line at its facility at Gravesend in Kent. The investment, which includes an APV twin screw compounding extruder, will increase the firm’s speciality reactive compounding capacity from 12,000 to around 14,000 tonnes per annum, depending on product mix. The new line, which will be in production in the first quarter of this year, is the seventh at the site. According to AEI Compounds managing director Terry Brown, it is the first step in a planned two-year investment programme worth around €7.6m.