Thai Acrylic Fiber acquires AMICOR
Thai Acrylic Fibre Co. Ltd has acquired the AMICOR family of antibacterial and antifungal acrylic fibres from Blue Star Fibre Co. It has also acquired the technologies involved in producing these fibres.
The company will produce the fibres at its Thailand plant. It uses a similar wet spinning process and the same solvent to spin acrylic fibres as those used to make the AMICOR fibres.
Former research and development head and product manager for Amicor, Roland Cox, will remain at the company to help with technology transfer and to provide technical support.
Thai Acrylic Fibre Co, part of the India-based Aditya Birla Group, has a manufacturing capacity of 100,000 metres a year. Its latest plant, commissioned in January 2006, is Alexandria Fibre Co., located in Egypt, which produces 18,000 metres of gel dyed acrylic fibre.
