Ampacet Opens Color Masterbatch Facility in Mexico to Serve Rigid and Flexible Packaging Markets
January 18 , 2006
TARRYTOWN, NY -- Ampacet Corporation has completed a new 3,700-square-meter (40,000-square-foot) plastic color masterbatch facility in Queretaro, Mexico, about 120 miles northwest of Mexico City. The new plant contains multiple twin-screw extruder lines, a Color Service and Development Center and offices.
"We created this custom color operation to strengthen our specialty color capabilities within the Americas," says Doug Brownfield, Strategic Business Manager. "It also will allow us to better serve the needs of Mexico's rigid and flexible packaging companies. Both the plant and its color lab are structured for quick turnaround, so we can support the packaging market's speed-to-market needs."
The plant's production lines are highly efficient and include a blending station to ensure product quality and laboratory-scale extrusion and molding equipment for product evaluations. In addition, its Color Service and Development Center gives customers the ability to create new colors and effects rapidly.
"The plant will support our broad base of business in Mexico, which we had serviced from the U.S. and South America until now," says Guillermo Quijano, Business Manager, Ampacet de Mexico. "We placed the facility in Queretaro because this locale is a center for plastics manufacturing in Mexico and many of our customers are within easy reach of the site.
"In addition to giving our current customers better service, it will enable us to greatly expand our presence in the fast-growing Mexican plastics industry. Our growth in Mexico is part of a broader global strategy for servicing customers who set global color standards but need local service."
About Ampacet
Ampacet Corporation is the world's largest volume global masterbatch supplier and offers the broadest range of custom color, special effect, black, white, and specialty additive masterbatches for extrusion, molding, and a multitude of other processes and applications. Founded in 1937, it now employs more than 1,400 people and has revenues exceeding $625 million. Headquartered in Tarrytown, N.Y., Ampacet Corporation operates technical and color development centers and manufacturing sites throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.
