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RELOCATION
Germany’s Renolit to move production activities

at Frankenthal site to Worms

German plastics processor Renolit
is merging its Worms and Frankenthal
sites at the location in Worms. The
family-owned company is investing
around Euro 130-mn in the project.
The merger of the two sites is expected
to take up to fi ve years. All employees
from the Frankenthal site will be
offered a job at the Worms site.
some of the existing machinery from signage systems. Over the next few
“At a time when, unfortunately, the Frankenthal site to the Worms site. years, Renolit would have had to invest
more and more German companies a “very high double-digit million”
are relocating their production At the Worms site, the company amount in the plant, which was
abroad, we are investing in Germany has more than fi ve hectares of unused founded in 1946. “However, because
as a business location,” emphasised space, where the new production is to it is located in the middle of a resi-
Mr. Karsten Jänicke, CEO of Renolit. be realised. The merger will increase dential area near the city centre and
He termed the move as one of the largest the production volume at the Worms in the immediate vicinity of the main
investment projects in the company’s site from around 24,000 tonnes per Frankenthal cemetery, any expansion
history. year to 38,000 tonnes per year. This is practically impossible,” the company
corresponds to an increase of over 50 explained.
Renolit is to set up a shared pro- percent.
duction facility for single-layer fi lms “We have therefore decided to
at Worms. The facility will include every- The Frankenthal site has been part merge the two sites. We will use the
thing from the mixing room to the of the Renolit Group since 1999. It investments required for the Franken-
cooling storage area for the company’s currently produces fi lms in around thal site to set up a modern production
Visual Communication Market Unit. 1,500 colours, mainly for self-ad- facility for single-layer fi lms at the
To do this, the company plans to trans- hesive applications, such as fi lms Worms site,’ said Executive Board
fer both the production volumes and for vehicle wrapping, lettering or Member Mr. Sven Behrendt.

EXPANDING PARTNERSHIP
Sumitomo Chemical entrusts Itochu to distribute

methionine

Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical their own. It is widely used as a feed Since April 2017, Sumitomo Chemi-
has reached an agreement with Itochu additive in the livestock industry, mainly cal and Itochu have collaborated in
Corporation to sell all of the feed additive, for poultry and pork feed, to increase the methionine distribution, with Sumitomo
methionine, produced at its Ehime Work production of meat, because the feed, Chemical selling part of the methionine
through Itochu distribution network, which is made mainly from corn and it produces through Itochu. This collabo-
starting April 2025. This is an expansion soybean meal, often does not contain ration combines Sumitomo Chemical’s
of the existing methionine distribution suffi cient amounts of methionine. integrated production operation that
collaboration between the two companies. Demand for methionine has grown at spans from raw material inputs to fi nished
an annual rate of approximately 4 percent methionine, with Itochu’s global distri-
Methionine is an essential amino in recent years, and is expected to bution network and many years of expe-
acid that animals cannot synthesise on continue to grow at a similar pace. rience in supply chain management.

168 Chemical Weekly April 8, 2025

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