Teknor Apex Acquires Nu-Pro Polymers
The acquisition expands Teknor’s flexible vinyl compounds offerings with Nu-Pro’s Cycle-Tek reprocessed PVC compounds with up to 90% PIR content.
Teknor Apex has expanded its flexible vinyl compounds business with the acquisition of Nu-Pro Polymers, Inc. of Wheeling, Ill. Nu-Pro works with clean post-industrial (PIR) streams and converts them into new PVC compounds which reportedly perform equivalently to prime compounds. Nu-Pro specializes in clear, natural and black reprocessed compounds in a range of durometers. Nu-Pro continues to produce products for Teknor Apex , under the Cycle-Tek brand as a subsidiary of Teknor Apex.
Nu-Pro’s flexible, reprocessed and recycled PVC compounds incorporate up to 90% PIR. content. Said Teknor’s Sunny Mahajan, senior technical manager & business manager for Cycle-Tek.
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