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Rhodia Polyamide announces further price increases for polyamide resins, fibers and compounds

30.11.2004 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.eu.rhodia.com) announces a price increase of € 200 per metric ton for Rhodia’s PA 6.6 base resins, Performance Fibers and Technyl® polyamide compounds in Europe. This increase is effective as of January 1st, 2005. This price increase is required to help absorb unprecedented...

DSM: Dutch Railways uses friendlier plastics from DSM for train cladding

26.11.2004 - Xantar® C CE 407, an unfilled blend of polycarbonate (PC) and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) from DSM Engineering Plastics is used by the Dutch Railway to replace train cladding made from polyester sheet. The DSM material was chosen for its lower flammability (M1 classification) and extremely...

GE: World-Leading Horticulturalist selects Higher Light Transmitting LEXAN ZigZag Polycarbonate Panels for Greenhouse Roofing

24.11.2004 - The first commercial application for revolutionary LEXAN* ZigZag* polycarbonate panels, from GE Advanced Materials Specialty Film & Sheet, has now been unveiled in The Netherlands. Corn. Bak BV, a world leading grower and exporter of Bromelia plants, has adopted the material for the roof refurbishment...

Dow Europe: Price Increase for PE, PP and Cable Compounds anounced

24.11.2004 - Supply for polyethylene and polypropylene resins, wire and cable compounds, and engineered laminates remains tight due to strong demand from resin converters, and the present prices do not allow for acceptable margins for Dow in the current market conditions. Based on this situation, Dow Europe GmbH...

EuPC: High raw material prices cripple early recovery of European plastics converting industry

23.11.2004 - European Plastics Converters gave warnings today of the hard economic blow currently being sustained by the sector from the radically sharp and dramatic increase in their raw material price. EuPC (www.eupc.org), the Brussels-based trade body for the industry said that chances of an early recovery...

DuPont Announces Price Increase on PVB

12.11.2004 - DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions (www.dupont.de), the leading innovator of products and services for the glass industry, announced today a price increase of $0.29 per square meter (€ 0.24 /m2) on all grades of Butacite® polyvinyl butyral interlayer. The new pricing will be applied to supply agreements...

Ter Hell Plastics takes on sales of Polimeri Europe PE materials in central Europe

04.11.2004 - From January 1st, 2005 Polimeri Europa will assign to Ter Hell Plastic PE-Distribution GmbH (www.terhell.de) the sales distribution rights for Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Rumania and Bulgaria. With this course of action both companies ensure an ample activity also at the level of small...

Ticona adjusts prices for engineering thermoplastics

03.11.2004 - With effect from November 15, 2004, Ticona (www.ticona.de) is increasing the prices of Hostaform® (POM), polyesters, Celstran® (LFT), Fortron® (PPS) and Vectra® (LCP). The leading global supplier of engineering thermoplastics is reacting to the continuing steep increase in world market prices for raw...

DuPont raises prices for engineering polymers

03.11.2004 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announced additional price increases effective Jan.1, 2005 in Europe, Middle East & Africa for the following products: • DuPont™ Zytel® nylon and DuPont™ Minlon® products will increase by a minimum of 0,25 €/kg • DuPont™ Crastin® PBT products will increase...

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