Teknor Apex Purchases Viking Polymers

On 31 January, Teknor Apex Company finished the acquisition of Viking Polymers, LLC, a formulador of compounds to request with a wallet diversified of skilled formulations and an especially wide participation in PVC rigid and affine materials for the construction. The mount of the operation did not give to know. The agreement of purchase celebrated with the owner and president of Viking Polymers John Ammondson, the one who founded the company in 1994 and now will exert like adviser for Teknor Apex. With headquarters in Jamestown, North Carolina, EE UU, Viking Polymers has an annual nominal capacity of formulation of compounds of 50 million pounds (23,000 metric tonnes). The recently purchased company will be part of the Division of Vinyl of Teknor Apex, will follow developing his activity in Jamestown, North Carolina, and will conserve to all his employees, according to Louis R. Cappucci, vice-president of Teknor Apex and director of the Division of Vinyl.

“Although historically almost all the commercial activities of the Division of Vinyl of Teknor Apex have centred in flexible compounds, the PVC rigid plays an increasingly important paper in our constant growth”, commented Cappucci. “The acquisition of Viking Polymers is a substantial addition to our capacities of PVC rigid and represents a natural extension of our wallet of products in the materials of resistant coating to the intemperie, composed of CPVC and other specialitys for the pujante market of the construction”.

The main applications for CPVC (chloride of polivinilo clorado) include systems of hot drinkable water and cold, and industrial pipe. They formulate to request PVC, ROASTS, acrylic and alloys for applications that include revestimiento external for houses, windows, terraces, rails, systems of pluvial water and fences. “The resistant compounds to the intemperie that have created in Viking Polymers do possible dark colours and with wooden tonality that resist to a prolonged exhibition to the intemperie”, affirmed Ammondson. “With the increasing tendency to the life in the open air, these compounds offer attractor trucks alternatives and of low maintenance to the wood in applications of standard construction”.

John Ammondson mentioned important similarities between Viking Polymers and Teknor Apex: Both companies are private companies with firm reputations, have created his own exclusive technologies of formulation of compounds, and are very known for assigning a high priority to the service to the customer. At the same time, they differ in ways that promise a productive synergy. “The team of Viking Polymers is excited in front of the possibilities that open when joining strengths with Teknor Apex”, affirmed Ammondson. “The wide strength of sales of Teknor Apex will discover new opportunities of business for the special technologies that have developed, and the global scope of Teknor Apex will present to the world-wide market a range of products of Viking Polymers whose application has limited until the moment to North America”.