UK materials distributor adds a flavour of Spain to portfolio

Castellón, Spain-based Ferro Engineered Polymer Products and UK polymer distributor, Longfield, have announced an agreement by which Longfield, based in Cheshire, United Kingdom, will market and distribute Ferro's product range in the UK.

Ferro Engineered Polymer Products’ operation in Spain is a major supplier of high quality masterbatches and concentrates. The company, which is part of Ferro Corporation, headquartered in Ohio, USA, provides an extensive range of coloured, white, black and additive masterbatches and concentrates for injection and blow moulding, film, sheet and profile extrusion and compounding.

“Ferro and Longfield are confident that Ferro's innovative and rapidly growing product portfolio and Longfield's dynamic approach to polymer distribution are well matched,” said the companies in a statement announcing the partnership.

Longfield adds Ferro to its growing list of supply partners, which include Unipetrol (PP/HDPE), Styrolution (PS), Epsan (nylon compounds), Formosa Plastics Taiwan (POM) and Lotte Chemical (PC), as well as its own brand of sub prime polymers sold under the brand name ‘LocaPolymers’