The IONISOS Group acquired a facility for electron beam cross-linking in Germany in November 2016. This location in Salzenforst near Bautzen and close to Dresden was built in 2009 by LEONI AG. Presently, two accelerator lines (Energy 1.5 – 3.0 MeV, output 220 kW) are used to treat reeled products such as cables, pipes and heat shrink tubing. In the process, the long polymer chains of the Polyolefins (mainly polyethylene PE) are cross-linked by introducing new carbon-carbon bonds into the molecular structure. Cross-linking leads to considerable improvement in the heat performance, mechanical and chemical properties of the materials, so melting, for example, is not possible anymore. Particularly, in case of polyethylene, radiation cross-linking (PEX C material) has more advantages and less constraints compared to the chemical cross-linking with peroxydes (PEX A) or vinylsilanes (PEX C). The actual processing of materials takes place in a shielded concrete vault with a speed of up to several 100 meters per minute. The goods are unreeled and exposed to the accelerated electrons according to clearly defined process parameters. The electrons penetrate the materials homogenously and lead to the desired crosslinking effect. The electron beam equipment includes hi-tech in-line monitoring of the cross-linking process thus ensuring the high quality requirements of our customers can be reproducibly achieved. The facility currently processed approximately 100 million linear meters of customer product each year and has capacity available to cater for market growth over the foreseeable years.