Hamburg-based leading chemicals marketing firm, Helm AG have signed an agreement with Jushi Group, a Chinese manufacturer of fibreglass, to market its products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Group's production capacity is over 200,000/tpy and it is planned to increase total annual output from the three plants to 500,000/t by 2010. Jushi Group exports about 60% of its fibreglass production. Jushi sees Europe as a market with strategic importance for the future. For the reinforcement of technical plastics and polypropylene, Jushi supplies chopped strands for polymers, suitable for PA, PBT, PET, PP, ABS and POM. The chopped strands can also be treated with special sizings for the BMC and friction lining industries as well as for use in wet-laid non-woven applications.
