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Lanxess: Price increase for rubber chemicals

17.12.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess will raise its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals supplied by the Rubber Chemicals business unit effective January 1, 2014. The increases are required to offset raw material cost increases in Q1 2014, says Lanxess. The price increases will impact all product...

Evonik and LanzaTech working on bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics

12.12.2013 - Evonik Industries and LanzaTech have signed a three year research cooperation agreement which will see Evonik combining its existing biotechnology platforms with LanzaTech’s synthetic biology and gas fermentation expertise for the development of a route to bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics...

Celanese: Price Increases for Polyacetal (POM)

11.12.2013 - Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, will increase prices for all ´Hostaform´ and ´Celcon´ polyacetal (POM) grades by 5 percent effective January 1, 2014, or as contracts allow. Customers should contact their Celanese sales representative to discuss...

BASF increases prices for Neopentylglycol and Trimethylolpropane in Europe

10.12.2013 - BASF is increasing the prices of the polyalcohols neopentylglycol (NPG) and trimethylolpropane (TMP), with immediate effect or as existing contracts permit by 85 €/mt in Europe. Trimethylolpropane (TMP) is a high-quality intermediate that is used primarily for the production of alkyd resins, which...

Celanese: Price Increase for Vinyl Acetate Monomeres

05.12.2013 - Celanese Corporation announced to increase list and off-list selling prices for vinyl acetate monomeres effective January 1, 2014. The prices in Europe will be increased by 70 Euro/MT. For the regions "Asia Outside China", "Central and South America", as well as "Mexico and North America" the prices...

Invista: Polyester product range expanded

04.12.2013 - Invista, one of the world’s largest integrated polymers and fibers producers, announces the expansion of its "XPURE" portfolio of polyester products made with a next generation catalyst system. Recent additions to this portfolio include the "XPURE" 7001 and 701K polyester copolymers. "XPURE" 7001...

Styron: Price Increases for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

04.12.2013 - Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today price increases for all polystyrene (PS) and copolymer grades. Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, the December contract and spot prices for the products listed below will increase as follows: STYRON™...

Styrolution: Price increases for Polystyrene

04.12.2013 - The Gross Market Price for Polystyrene (GPPS, bulk) valid as of December 1st, is increased by +30€/mt vs. November. The surcharge for HIPS is + 105 €/mt.

BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives

03.12.2013 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Europe:

Evonik appoints FKuR as distribution partner for its ‚Vestamid Terra‘ product line

02.12.2013 - Evonik Industries AG, High Performance Polymers Business Line, and FKuR Kunststoff GmbH announced their distribution agreement for ‚Vestamid Terra‘ during the K 2013 in Düsseldorf. With immediate effect, FKuR will market, sell and distribute Evonik’s full line of biobased polyamide ‚Vestamid Terra‘...

Kuraray to acquire DuPont glass laminating solutions/vinyls

26.11.2013 - Kuraray and DuPont recently announced they have signed a definitive agreement for DuPont to sell Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls (GLS/Vinyls), a part of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, to Kuraray for US$543 million, plus the value of the inventories. The sale is expected to close during the...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers: Price increase in North America for specialty ethylene copolymer resins

26.11.2013 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers recently announced a price increase in the range of $0.10/lb. ($0.22/kg) to $0.15/lb. ($0.33/kg) in North America on all grades of “DuPont” “Surlyn”, “Elvaloy”, “Appeel”, “Fusabond”, “Bexloy”, “Entira”, “Conpol” and “Nucrel”. This increase is effective as of Dec....

Lanxess: Price increas for Chloroprene Rubber

21.11.2013 - Lanxess announces a global price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene Rubber (CR) of up to 180 EUR / 245 USD per metric ton. Increasing raw material and energy prices are named as the driving force. Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts and regulations, price increases will be...

Lanxess: Expanded cresol plant on stream

18.11.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has completed the expansion of its cresol production plant in Leverkusen, Germany, and has now begun operating a newly constructed reaction system as well as a second 46-meter-high distillation column. The expansion increases capacity for this high-quality intermediate...

Krahn Chemie: Distribution of Sinopec styrene block copolymer in Europe

05.11.2013 - Krahn Chemie and Sinopec Europa Handels GmbH have agreed to work together to distribute styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene butadiene styrene (SEBS), and styrene isoprene styrene (SIS). According to this Krahn Chemie will distribute Sinopec styrene block copolymer in Europe. The two...

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