Alloy Polymers opens new FDA compounds plant. (Your Business in Brief).Alloy Polymers Inc., Richmond, Va., recently started up a new compounding facility that will focus on producing engineering thermoplastics and high-value-added polyethylene and polypropylene compounds used in food, medical, and pharmaceutical applications, as well as personalcare packaging. Located at company headquarters in Richmond, this 10,000-sq-ft facility has production capacity of 15 million lb/yr. It reportedly meets FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. "Good Manufacturing Practices" (GMP GMP (guanosine monophosphate): see guanine. ) standards as well as the applicable sections of Parts 110 and 172 through 185 of CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight Title 21, and the packaging plant guidelines of the American Institute of Baking The American Institute of Baking is a not-for-profit corporation, founded by the North American wholesale and retail baking industries in 1919 as a technology transfer center for bakers and food processors. . The plant has two 90-mm Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer ZSK twinscrew extrusion lines that are isolated from other operations, creating a "plant within a plant." Tel: (804) 232-8000, www.alloypolymers.com |
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