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Starlinger: Acquisition of Woven Packaging Division from Windmöller & Hölscher

20.11.2024 - Austrian Starlinger & Co Gesellschaft m.b.H. takes over the woven packaging division from German machinery producer Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) as well as its Viennese subsidiary company “W&H Machinery GmbH” which specialises in woven packaging. With this acquisition, Starlinger intends to further...

Ineos Styrolution: New ABS extrusion grade for furniture edge band applications

18.11.2024 - Ineos Styrolution announced today the launch of its latest ABS grade, "Lustran" 532, developed for easy processing, medium gloss, and a stable colour base for self-colouring. This new grade is specifically designed for furniture edge band applications. "We are excited to introduce Lustran® 532 as...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

05.11.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe, announced today a price increase for all polystyrene (PS), ABS and SAN grades. Effective November 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will increase as follows:...

Starlinger: Machine manufacturer takes action against copyists in China

21.10.2024 - Starlinger & Co Gesellschaft m.b.H., machine manufacturer based in Vienna, Austria, with production plants in Austria, Germany and China, sued Chinese machine manufacturers and their customers (packaging producers) based on infringement of several of Starlinger’s patents. The legal proceedings have...

Technip Energies: Plant constructor hands over cracker in Long Son

11.10.2024 - The French industrial plant constructor Technip Energies (T.EN) has handed over a new cracker at the Long Son site in southern Vietnam to the client Long Son Petrochemicals (LSP). According to a press release, the plant, which is part of a petrochemical complex developed by LSP in the province of...

K.D. Feddersen: Guillaume Fromont new Sales Director in France

11.10.2024 - Guillaume Fromont will take over the position of Sales Director (Directeur Commercial) at the French subsidiary of Hamburg-based plastics distributor K.D. Feddersen GmbH & Co. KG on 1 October 2024. With more than 15 years of experience in the plastics industry, Guillaume Fromont brings valuable knowledge...

Trinseo: Price Decrease for Polystyrene in Europe

02.10.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today a price decrease for all polystyrene (PS) grades. Effective October 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will decrease as follows: "Styron" and...

Srichakra Polyplast: Indian plastic recycler triples production capacity for bottle-grade rPET

18.09.2024 - Indian plastics recycler Srichakra Polyplast has commissioned two new Starlinger PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines in the first half of 2024. The company is already processing post-consumer PET bottles and polyolefin packaging on two Starlinger plastic recycling lines installed in 2021. The two...

Röhm: Price increase for PMMA and PMMI moulding compounds

16.09.2024 - Röhm GmbH is increasing the sales prices for its PMMA and PMMI molding compounds sold under the "Plexiglas" and "Pleximid" brands, effective October 1, 2024. Wherever possible under existing contractual agreements, the increase will be 0.15 Euro per kilogram for all products in Europe, the Middle...

Ganesha Ecopet: Indian PET recycler increases bottle-to-bottle capacities - Two new Starlinger plants

10.09.2024 - The Indian PET recycling specialist Ganesha Ecopet is increasing its PET bottle-to-bottle recycling capacity to a total of 42,000 tonnes per year with two Starlinger systems. According to the machine manufacturer, the company aims to recycle 25 per cent of all used PET bottles in India by 2026. The...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

03.09.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe, recently announced a price increase for all polystyrene (PS), ABS and SAN grades. Effective September 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will increase as follows:...

Mauser Packaging Solutions: Acquisition of a South African manufacturer of plastic drums

05.08.2024 - Mauser Packaging Solutions, a global manufacturer of industrial packaging and provider of solutions and services for the entire life cycle of packaging, has acquired a company in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, for the manufacture, sale and supply of plastic drums, including large rigid plastic...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

05.08.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe, recently announced a price increase for all polystyrene (PS), ABS and SAN grades. Effective August 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will increase as follows:...

Ambiente: Portuguese recycler produces high-quality recycled pellets from washed agricultural film and detergent bottles - Starlinger system

23.07.2024 - The Portuguese plastics recycling company Ambiente S.A. produces high-quality odour-treated recycled pellets from washed agricultural film and detergent bottles on a Starlinger recycling system of the type ‘recoStar dynamic 165 C-VAC’. The Starlinger system was commissioned in June 2024 at Ambiente's...

Polyvantis: Price increase for „Plexiglas“ and „Europlex“ films

16.07.2024 - Effective August 1st, 2024, Polyvantis GmbH will increase the prices for its PMMA based film products, which are marketed under the trademarks „Plexiglas“ and „Europlex“. The increase will be twelve percent in Europe, Asia, Africa and Pacific, as far as permissible under existing agreements.

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