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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...

BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives in Europe

07.03.2011 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products: 1,4 Butanediol (BDO): +200 EUR/mt Tetrahydrofuran (THF): +250 EUR/mt Polytetramethylene ether glycol (PolyTHFR): +300 EUR/mt N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP): +200...

Baerlocher announces price increases on its Baeropan range of PVC stabilisers

04.03.2011 - Baerlocher announced that effective from March 1st 2011, it will increase prices on its Baeropan range of products. These increases being necessary to recover significant increases in key raw materials. "Global demand for our feedstocks, from traded commodities, as well as fat and oil based derivatives,...

BASF increases prices of antioxidants and process stabilizers for plastic applications

28.02.2011 - Effective today, or as contracts allow, BASF increases prices globally of antioxidants and process stabilizers for plastic applications by 5-10%, depending on the product. These increases are in addition to the increases announced in December, says the the company. The price increase is necessary...

LANXESS to increase prices for its Baypren (CR) products

28.02.2011 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS announces a price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene business – depending on region – for up to € 300/mt (or US$ 400/mt). Reason being the continued high level of feedstock and energy prices as well...

Bayer MaterialScience inaugurates new polyisocyanates unit in India

24.02.2011 - Production of polyurethane raw materials for coatings and adhesives Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar, in the state of Gujarat, India. Polyisocyanates are used as raw materials for the production of polyurethane coatings and adhesives....

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