I whakatūria i te tau 1987, kei te tipu tonu a Niche Polymer i roto i te ao tūroa me te hoko mai, me te arotahi ki ana mahi whakawhanake hua ki ngā hiahia mākete e huri haere ana. Ko te tāpiri uara ki ngā para ahumahi me ngā para kaihoko-muri he wāhanga nui o ēnei mahi. #whanaketangatauwhiro
Te āhua nei i mua atu a Tākuta Saurabh Naik i tōna wā ki te whakaaro i tētahi ōhanga porowhita katoa. I ngā tau 1980, ka tīmata ia ki te rapu mākete mō ngā para muri-ahumahi ka taea te hangarua. I whiwhi ia i tana tohu PhD i roto i te matū polymer mai i U-Mass Lowell i te tau 1978, ā, i muri mai ka mahi poto mā Martin Marietta me International Paper e whakawhanake ana i te mika hei whakakī i roto i ngā whakatakotoranga thermoplastic.
I ēnei rā, ko Nike te kaiwhakaū me te Tumu Whakarae o Niche Polymer LLC, tētahi o ana raina hua e kiia nei ko PoliPCR, he mea hanga mai i ngā rauemi hangarua mō ngā roto o ngā motuka, ngā wāhanga o te wāhanga miihini, ngā rama, ngā kōtaha matapihi, ngā papa, te whakakikorua pakitara me ngā mea pakari pērā i ngā taonga me ngā taputapu. Ko te PoliPCR e hangai ana ki te polypropylene, te nairon 6, te nairon 66, te polycarbonate, te ABS me te PBT.
I mua atu a Tākuta Saurab Naik, te Tumu Whakarae o Niche Polymer, i tana mahi ki te kimi mākete me ngā tono mō ngā para kirihou. Whakaahua: Niche Polymers
I mea atu a Sunny Nike, te tama a te kaiwhakaū o Niche Polymer me te tumuaki tuarua o ngā mahi: "E whakapono ana mātou ki te tautoko kaha i te oranga tonutanga mā te mahi tahi me ngā kaiwhakarato kapia, ngā kaihanga pokepoke me ngā OEM ki te tahuri i ngā para kirihou mai i te taiao me te whakanui ake i te hangarua. Ko te pūtake matatika o te rere o ā mātou rauemi ko tō mātou kawenga pāpori. Ko te oranga tonutanga ko tō mātou kaha ki te whakahoki i tēnei tukanga i te tere pumau."
Kei a Niche Polymer ngā tipu i Ravenswood, West Virginia me Washington, Neskehonin, Pennsylvania, me Killen, Alabama, me ngā pokapū tohatoha i Washington, DC, me Toronto. Kua whakaritea kia whakatuwheratia he whare 80,000-putu tapawha i Musle Shoals, Alabama, i tēnei tau hei whakaputa i ngā polymer ngohengohe (TPE me TPV). Kei te whakamahere te kamupene ki te whakarato i te tipu ki ētahi raina whakakotahitanga takirua hou e toru. Ka arotahi ki te whakarato i ngā OEM motuka ki te tonga-mā-rāwhiti. Hei tāpiri, i tēnei tau i whakatuwherahia e Niche he pokapū PCR i Florence, South Carolina, ā, i te tau e tū mai nei ka whakatuwherahia e Niche he tipu whakakotahitanga i Queretaro, Mexico, me tētahi pokapū ratonga hangarau me te tohatoha i Texas. Ko te tipu Nesquehoning te hua o te hoko a Niche i a Ametek/Westchester Plastics i te tau 2021, i tāpirihia ai ngā ratonga whakapiri, whakakotahitanga tauhohe me te tukatuka ki ngā āheinga o te kamupene.
E tautokona ana ngā mahi whakahiato o te Niche Polymer e te hangarau whakaputa tīwiri takirua hou. E 18 ngā raina whakaputa a te kamupene i roto i ngā wheketere rerekē.
I pau te nuinga o tana mahi tuatahi ki te mahi pūmua, me te arotahi ki te hangarua. I te wā i whakatūria ai a Niche i te tau 1987, i hokona e ia ngā para mai i te tukanga hangahanga Black & Decker ki Haina me Īnia. I te whiwhinga mai i ētahi atu puna tuku, i whakatuwheratia e ia tētahi wheketere hangarua i Baltimore hei whakaiti me te tākai. I te tekau tau atu i 1990, e 20 miriona pauna o ngā para i tukuna e ia i ia tau ki Haina, e rapu ana i ngā rauemi iti ake te utu hei tautoko i te mākete hanga werohanga e puāwai ana.
I te tīmatanga o te rautau, ka nui haere te uaua o te mākete hangarua. "He nui ngā utu matū, nō reira he nui te utu o te kapia tuatahi," te mahara a Tākuta Naik. "He nui ngā para e kohia ana e mātou, engari ko te raruraru e pā ana ki a mātou ko te pēhea te tāpiri uara ki roto." I te tau 2001, i whakatuwheratia e Niche tana whare matua i Washington, DC, i te taha o te wheketere DuPont, te wāhi e whakarōpūhia ai ngā rota hapa, ā, ka whakahokia mai ngā rota polymer hou. He kaihanga e whakarato ana i ngā ratonga tāpiri ki ngā kamupene kapia nunui o taua wā. I te tau 2008, ka tīmata a Niche Polymer ki te hanga ranunga i tētahi wheketere muka o mua i hokona mai i DuPont i Ravenswood.
I toru ngā pikinga o Ravenswood i te tīmatanga o te whakawhanaketanga o Niche i āna ake hua. I te tau 2014, i tāpirihia e Niche ētahi raina whakaranu e rua, ā, i whiwhi tana taiwhanga R&D i te whakamanatanga ISO 17025. I muri i ngā tau e toru, i tāpirihia e Niche tētahi raina whakaranu polyolefin me te polystyrene. E 150 miriona pauna te kaha o Ravenswood i te tau. Ko ngā hua i hangaia i reira, ko te nuinga he nairona, ko ngā momo karāhe-kī, ko ngā kohuke-kī, ko te ātete-pānga me te ātete-wera.
Kei te hanga hoki a Niche i ngā koranu PC/ABS me te polypropylene kua whakakīia ki te karāhe PIR. Ko te whare e tata ana ki Washington e whakahaerehia ana ko Polymer Alliance Services. Ko te whare 400,000 putu tapawha te pokapū rokiroki me te tohatoha rauemi matua a Niche, engari he maha atu anō ngā mahi e whakahaerehia ana e ia: te tātari whatu, te haehae, te huri cryogenic, te takai, te whakaranu, te whakamaroke, me te maha atu.
Kātahi, i te tau 2020, i tāpirihia e Niche ngā āheinga hanga TPE me te TPO mā te hoko i ngā Polymer Technical Services (PTS) i Heath, Ohio. Ngā matū PRT PP, PE, TPO, ABS, PC, Nylon 6, Nylon 66, PBT me ō rātou koranu. Mai i tētahi whare 60,000 putu tapawha me ngā kaimahi e rua, kua tipu a PTS ki te neke atu i te 40 ngā kaimahi. Mai i te tīmatanga, i whakauruhia he taiwhanga tino rite ki te tipu. I te marama o Hānuere 2011, i whakatuwherahia e PTS tētahi atu tipu hangarua 80,000 putu tapawha i Hebron, Ohio, neke atu i te rua te nui o tōna wāhi hangarua me te rokiroki.
Mā te hokonga mai o Ametek/Westchester Plastics i te tau 2021 ka tāpirihia he 220 miriona pauna o te kaha whakaputa. Ko Westchester Plastics te kaihanga motuhake matua o Amerika mō ngā kapia hangarau, ngā koranu, ngā ranunga, ngā whakarerekētanga tauhohe me ētahi atu rauemi thermoplastic.
I whakawhānui ake a Niche Polymer i tana pakihi utu i te tau 2021 mā te hoko mai i a Ametek, Westchester Plastics, e kīia nei ko ia te kaihanga utu nui rawa atu i Amerika Te Raki.
E whakahaere ana a Niche Polymers i ngā raina whakakotahitanga e 18, 24/5, i roto i ana wheketere katoa. E ai ki āna whakatau tata, ko te tere tipu i te tau 2022 ka tata ki te 30%. Ko tōna kaha whakaputa he tata ki te 100 miriona pauna ia tau mā āna ake hua:
• Ko ngā hua whaimana PoliPIR he mea hangarua 100% (PIR) ā, he mea hanga mō ngā tono e hiahia ana ki ngā hua whaimana PIR paerewa hei penapena utu. • Ko ngā pūmua ngohengohe PoliSP he mea hanga mai i te SEBS, ā, he rite ki te rapa whakamomona, engari ka taea te tukatuka pērā i ngā kirihou wera. Kei roto i ngā tono ko ngā hiri, ngā uhi taura me te whakahāngai werohanga ngohengohe.
• Ko ngā hua PoliPCR he matū hanga ritenga o te nairona 6 me te 66 me te PPC (polypropylene carbonate, he copolymer o te hauhā waro me te propylene oxide). Ka taea hoki te whakarite i te ihirangi PCR. Ko te rere o ngā rauemi mata PCR e ahu mai ana i tētahi rauemi pumau, ā, kua arotauhia te tukanga hei hanga i tētahi rauemi mata hiato ma, pono hoki mō te whakamahinga o roto. Ko ngā pūtake matua o ngā rauemi mata o Niche Polymer i konei ko ngā kupenga hī ika nairona (tata ki te 640,000 tana e tāpuitia ana i ia tau), whāriki, whakairi, papa, para tohu, me ngā tapanga PP mō ngā pounamu houra PET. Ko te whare Florence he whare kohikohi Niche Polymer PCR, ā, ka mahi i te whakarōpū, te horoi, te huri, te kimi konganuku, te whakakīkī, te whakaranu me te tākai.
E tautokona ana ngā whare Niche Polymer katoa e ngā taputapu taiwhanga me ngā taputapu whakamātautau hou rawa atu.
Nā te hōhonutanga me te whānui o āna hua, ka whakataetae a Niche Polymer i roto i te whānuitanga o ngā mākete mutunga. Kei roto i tēnei ko ngā taonga kaihoko pumau pērā i ngā motuka, te hanga, ngā taonga whare me ngā taputapu hiko, ngā hikohiko, ngā paipa wai, ngā taputapu hiko, ngā taonga hākinakina, me ngā taonga takaro.
"Ko te umanga motuka te arotahi nui mō te whanaketanga o ngā hua Niche Polymer ā muri ake nei," te kōrero a Thomas Moccia, te tumuaki tuarua o ngā hoko me te hokohoko. Kei te tuku kē a Niche i ngā otinga rauemi mō ngā waka māmā; ngā polymer antimicrobial mō ngā wāhanga e pāngia pinepinetia ana pērā i ngā wira urungi, ngā whakaaturanga me ngā kakau tatau; ngā polymer kua whakapakarihia ki te muka waro mō ngā panera tinana kaha me te māmā, ngā panera tuanui me ngā wira; ko ngā pūnaha pākahiko me te parepare e whakarato ana i ngā rauemi mō te kaha me te haumaru.
Engari kei te akiaki hoki ngā kaihanga motuka i ā rātou kaiwhakarato rauemi kia tuku i ngā momo tae atu ki te 30 ōrau o te PCR mō ngā papaaho me ētahi atu wāhanga o roto. "E hiahia ana ngā OEM ki te hokohoko i te PCR hei rauemi tāpiri uara, ā, e mahi tahi ana mātou me ā rātou tīma whakawhanake ki te whakawhanake i ngā matū e tika ana mō tēnei kaupapa."
Mā te whiriwhiri i te matū horoi tika ka tere ake te panoni o ngā rauemi me ngā tae, ka whakaiti hoki i te para. Ka taea hoki e koe te penapena i ngā rauemi.
Mā te tikanga wetewete hou e ahu mai ana i te fluorescence ka whakaratohia he tikanga tere, pono hoki mō te ine me te whakamana i te ihirangi hangarua o ngā momo kirihou.
Kei te piki haere te titiro a ngā kaipupuri waitohu taonga kaihoko ki te hangarua matū matatau hei tāpiritanga ki te hangarua miihini mēnā e hiahia ana rātou ki te whakatutuki i ngā whāinga ōhanga porowhita nui i roto i te tekau tau e whai ake nei. He maha ngā kaiwhakarato hangarau e whakawhanake ana i ngā hangarau hou hei wikitoria i ngā herenga o ngā tikanga pyrolysis o nāianei, me te hokohoko i ngā momo huarahi kē atu ki te tukatuka matū kirihou.