PARIS—Safic-Alcan has entered into an extended distribution deal with Orion Engineered Carbons in South Africa, effective Jan. 1.
The new agreement covers specialty carbon blacks and rubber carbon blacks, for applications such as mechanical rubber goods, coating and ink systems and polymers, Safic-Alcan said in a Dec. 1 news release.
The move builds on a long-standing partnership between the companies in Europe and follows a previous extension a couple of years ago, in Benelux, Germany and Eastern Europe.
"With this further agreement we underline our commitment to the carbon black customers in the South African market and are confident that the ... service offered by Safic-Alcan is ideally suited to the performance of our products," said Udo Engels, Orion's vice president of sales for EMEA.