Alliance shipping Chinese-made TPEs

ERJ staff report (R&PN)

Romulus, Michigan -- Alliance Polymers and Services LLC said it is shipping thermoplastic elastomer in the US produced by a PolyMax Elastomer Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese company that plans to open a plant in the US in 2012.

Alliance is distributing at least 20 SEBS-based standard and custom Maxelast TPE compounds made by Polymax. The products are inventoried and ready for immediate shipment from the Alliance central warehouse facilities in the Detroit area and other sites on either coast.

The firm said distributing the TPEs is the first of several steps through a joint venture between Polymax and Alliance to penetrate North American markets with a full line of TPEs and TPVs.

The next step, Alliance said, tentatively scheduled for May of 2012, is to build a TPE compounding production facility in the US at an undisclosed site.

From Rubber & Plastics News (A Crain publication)

Press release from Alliance