CLEVELAND, April 13, 2015 - The Lubrizol Corporation's Performance Coatings business announces it has completed a significant project to expand capacity and increase manufacturing efficiencies at its solvent acrylics production facility in Sant Cugat (Barcelona), Spain.
Solvent acrylic resin technology for topcoats and primers is critical to the success of specialty packaging requirements related to vacuum metallization, hot stamp foil and holographic printing applications. Each of these technologies is playing an increasing role in packaging innovation for security, aesthetics and functional properties of substrates.
Over the past two years, Lubrizol made significant investments to automate two independent production lines for the highly specialized solvent acrylic resin. This automation helped achieve the goal of creating efficiency and flexibility while also improving quality and increasing capacity. This investment included a new loading system for monomers and solvents, new premix and initiator tanks and their related dosing systems, new filters, two new bulk resins pipelines and a semi-automatic packaging machine.
This upgrade also allowed for the integration of these production lines into the plant's Distributed Control System (DCS). "These upgrades were critical to ensuring a highly reliable unit, meeting our customers demand and quality expectations and reaching our high performance goals," notes Jordi Fernandez, Lubrizol process engineer.
"Sant Cugat is also home to Lubrizol's Global Packaging Center of Excellence", shares Rich Bradley, Lubrizol global market segment manager. "Our labs are dedicated to linking material science to real world applications testing for the packaging industry, and our investment in plant upgrades is closely aligned with the forward-thinking work we've done in those labs."
The investment in plant upgrades increases Lubrizol's value by strengthening our ability to be a global solution provider with the technologies and capacities that can help drive our customers' growth and overall success.
About Lubrizol Performance Coatings
At Lubrizol, we innovate coatings solutions that help our customers balance the aesthetics, durability, and functionality needs of their products for a wide array of surfaces and substrates. Our strength is in collaborating with customers to solve their toughest challenges-such as making coatings safer, enhancing production efficiency and reducing environmental impact-without compromising performance. To learn more, contact your Lubrizol representative or visit www.lubrizol.com/coatings
About The Lubrizol Corporation
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a technology-driven global company that combines complex, specialty chemicals to optimize the quality, performance and value of customers' products while reducing their environmental impact. It produces and supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, driveline and other transportation-related fluids, industrial lubricants, as well as additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives for home care and personal care products and pharmaceuticals, and specialty materials, including plastics technology and performance coatings in the form of specialty resins and additives. Our products for the oilfield market include technologies for exploration, production and transportation.
With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, Lubrizol owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 17 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol has approximately 8,000 employees worldwide. Revenues for 2014 were $7 billion. For more information, visit Lubrizol.com.
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