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Clariant: Price increases for waxes

06.04.2011 - The Waxes Business Line of Clariant, a world leader in specialty waxes and performance polymers, announces a price increase of 5-10% across its complete wax portfolio for the second quarter 2011. Clariant produces high performance waxes which are used mainly in plastics, coatings and inks, as well...

LANXESS increases prices for technical rubber grades

01.04.2011 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is increasing its prices for its Perbunan and Krynac synthetic rubber ranges by up to EUR 250 per metric ton with effect from April 1, 2011. The reason for this price adjustment is the rise in raw material, transport and energy costs. The nitrile rubbers (NBR)...

Evonik: Price increase for Carbon Black Pigments and Pigment Preparations

01.04.2011 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black Pigments and Pigments Preparations Corasol, Derussol, Tack and Colcolor by up to 10 percent for deliveries to locations in Europe, Asia, and ROW. Prices for shipments in the Nafta - Region will...

Songwon appoints Bodo Möller Chimica Italia as new distribution partner for Italy

25.03.2011 - Songwon, a global leader in the manufacture and delivery of additives for the plastics industry, and Bodo Möller Chimica Italia Srl., have entered into a distribution agreement for the market development and sales of the Songwon portfolio of products in Italy. The new partnership will become effective...

Bayer MaterialScience cooperates with Mito polimeri for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy

24.03.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has added the distributor Mito polimeri s.r.l. to its list partners for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy. The company has assumed the distribution activities previously performed by Bayer MaterialScience’s long-standing partners Mercatali s.r.l. (since 1973) and...

LANXESS: Price increase for rubber chemicals

24.03.2011 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is to increase its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals supplied by the Rubber Chemicals business unit effective April 1, 2011. This is primarily in response to steeply rising raw material costs. The price increase affects almost the entire product range of antioxidants...

Songwon announces global price increases for its range of Thioester Antioxidants

23.03.2011 - Songwon Industrial, a leading developer and manufacturer of polymer additives, will increase global prices for its range of Songnox® Thioester Antioxidants - Songnox® DSTDP, Songnox® DLTDP, and Songnox® DTDTP. The increases will range between 10 to 25% effective on orders received on or after March...

Evonik: Price increase for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations

23.03.2011 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations by up to 200 €/MT for deliveries to locations in Europe and ROW. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after April 1, 2011. Evonik Carbon...

DuPont: Price Increases in Europe, Middle East and Africa for all Ethylene Copolymer Resins

22.03.2011 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, a price increase of up to 15%, depending on the grade, on all grades of DuPont Ethylene Copolymer resins. This action is in addition to the previously communicated January 1, 2011 increases and will take effect...

Altuglas International: Price increases for PMMA acrylic resins

21.03.2011 - Altuglas International will increase prices from +150 to +200 Euros per metric ton of its PMMA resins product range marketed under the Altuglas® trademark. This price increase will be implemented to all shipments from April 1st 2011 in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The price revision is...

BASF raises prices of propionic acid in Europe and Asia

21.03.2011 - Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for propionic acid in Europe by 200 Euro per ton and in Asia by 200 US-Dollars per ton. BASF claims itself as a leading supplier of propionic acid with production facilities at its Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany,...

Ticona Increases Prices in Europe, Middle East and Africa

17.03.2011 - Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is increasing prices for: • Polyester products (Celanex® PBT, Vandar® PBT, Impet® PET and Riteflex® TPC-ET) € 0.15/kg, or higher on selected products. This increase takes effect on customer shipments beginning April 4th, 2011, or...

Oxea: Price Increases for Amines, Polyoles and Carboxylic Acids

16.03.2011 - Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the products below effective April 1, 2011, or as contracts allow.

Bayer MaterialScience to invest Euro 100 million in Germany

14.03.2011 - MDI plant Brunsbüttel: rise of production capacity to 420,000 metric tons a year Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is...

Bayer MaterialScience develops innovative method for incorporating fillers into reactive polyurethane blends

09.03.2011 - With the Solid Injection by Air Stream (SIA) method from Bayer MaterialScience, the solids are transported in a gas stream and only injected into the mixing chamber during the blending phase. This method opens up entirely new possibilities for the use of composite materials, regardless of whether they...

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