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Plast09: International Conference „Plastics & Agriculture” for the second time

19.02.2009 - Within the side events of the international exhibition devoted to the plastics and rubber industry, PLAST´09 (Milan, March 24-28, 2009, www.plast09.org), the second edition of the International Conference „Plastics & Agriculture” is scheduled on Wednesday March 25 and Thursday March 26. The provisional...

Equistar Announces Long-Term Idling of Chocolate Bayou Olefins Plant

13.02.2009 - Equistar Chemicals, LP, yesterday announced that its olefins plant at Chocolate Bayou, Texas, will remain idled for an indefinite period. In conjunction with the long-term idling, Equistar announced the reduction of approximately 220 employees supporting olefins operations at the site. "Current projections...

Dow to Close LDPE Plant in Freeport, Texas

13.02.2009 - Driven by current economic conditions and overcapacity for Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) in the North American marketplace, The Dow Chemical Company (www.dow.com) yesterday announced the shutdown of its Poly 2 LDPE plant in Freeport, Texas. “The Basic Plastics business carefully evaluated several...

INEOS NOVA: Price increasement for Polystyrene in Europe

12.02.2009 - INEOS NOVA (www.ineos-nova.com) announced recently that the prices for all Polystyrene products in Europe will be increased by 75 EURO per ton effective February 1st - 2009 as the feestocks (Benzene, Ethylene and Styrene) costs are increasing on both contract and spot bases versus early January 2009.

LyondellBasell to temporarily idle LDPE units at Carrington, UK and Fos-sur-Mer, France

12.02.2009 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) has taken steps to temporarily idle its low density polyethylene units at Carrington, United Kingdom, and Fos-sur-Mer, France, into the second quarter of 2009. The Carrington unit has a nameplate capacity of 185 KT per year, and the Fos plant has a...

Equipolymers Announces Divestiture of Equipolymers Srl

11.02.2009 - The shareholders of Equipolymers (www.equipolymers.com), The Dow Chemical Company and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait, have announced the decision to divest its Italian entity, Equipolymers Srl, due to disappointing financial results. This divestment includes the Ottana, Italy, manufacturing...

BASF: New products and applications at the VDI conference “Plastics in Automotive Engineering”

10.02.2009 - This year, BASF is once again showcasing new products and applications in the realm of engineering plastics, styrenics, polyurethanes and foams at the technical conference “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” organized by the Association of German Engineers (VDI) to be held on March 25 and 26, 2009...

BASF: New serial application for Styrolux HS 70

09.02.2009 - Styrolux® HS 70, an innovation showcased at the K 2007 plastics trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, has now gone into one of its first serial productions in Europe, namely, at AXIAL, an Italian film manufacturer (Vedano Olona, Italy, www.axial-ops.com). AXIAL has just started to produce shrink films...

DuPont™ Hytrel® thermoplastic elastomer helps resolve “baffling” design challenge

09.02.2009 - A unique approach to integrating a sealing and baffle function in General Motors’ new 6T40 and 6T45 transversely mounted 6-speed automatic transmissions helps condense packaging space and enable better clutch and transmission durability. The two new transmissions deliver power to a wide range of vehicles...

Wittmann Group concentrates its resources in Great Britain

06.02.2009 - From 1 February 2009 the Wittmann UK and Battenfeld UK subsidiaries which were previously managed separately will concentrate their forces and unite to become the sales and services company “Wittmann Battenfeld UK” (www.wittmann.co.uk) with its head office in Wellingborough. All the sales and service...

Pallmann: Manufacturer of size reduction- and preparation machines with new webpage

05.02.2009 - Informative, compact and user-friendly, is how the webpage of the manufacturer of size reduction- and preparation machines presents itself. Interested users learn all about the PALLMANN products by clicking www.pallmann.eu. User-friendly, quick loading pages and compact information: The new webpage...

DuPont: First commercial use of renewably-sourced DuPont™ Hytrel® RS in ski-boots from Salomon

04.02.2009 - The collar of the new Salomon ‘Ghost’ freerider alpine ski-boot constitutes one of the first commercial uses worldwide of DuPont™ Hytrel® RS thermoplastic elastomer (www.dupont.com). Providing all the traditional performance characteristics of Hytrel® for such a demanding winter sports application...

EuPC urges EU support for Plastics Processors

03.02.2009 - In a January message to the European plastics conversion industry, Alexandre Dangis, the Managing Director of the industry´s Brussels based trade body, EuPC (www.plasticsconverters.eu), outlined actions taken by EuPC in a series of high-level meetings with the European Commission and the European Investment...

Bayer MaterialScience reduces work week

02.02.2009 - The Bayer subgroup MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.com) is reacting to the effects of the financial crisis, but without resorting to short-time working for the time being. Instead, an opening clause in the general collective agreement for the chemical industry is to be invoked, according to...

LANXESS finalizes global package to counter crisis

02.02.2009 - LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) has put together a global package of measures named “CHALLENGE 09” in order to mitigate the effects of weak demand worldwide and strengthen the specialty chemicals group’s position. This package includes a number of technical process improvements as well as measures affecting...

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