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Maack Business Services announces PEPP, SPF plastics conference dates for 2011

20.01.2011 - Conference organizer Maack Business Services’ global technology and business forum for the polyethylene and polypropylene sectors, PEPP, will once again be at the Swissotel in Zurich this year, on September 21 and 22. MBS is planning sessions covering latest developments in materials and polymerisation...

BASF's first high temperature-resistant XPS

18.01.2011 - BASF has now extended its range of extruded polystyrene rigid foam panels (XPS) with an innovative product. The new insulation material is called Styrodur® HT (HT = high temperature). Its key feature is a heat distortion temperature of up to 105° Celsius (application limit temperature). This makes the...

Evonik: Price Increase Carbon Black Pigment Grades & Pigment Black Preparations

12.01.2011 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black Pigment grades and Pigment Black Preparations by up to 10 % for deliveries to locations in Europe, Asia and RoW. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after February...

EuPC: Italian ban on plastic bags

10.01.2011 - On January 1st 2011 Italian legislation banning the use of "non-biodegradable" plastic bags, entered into force. This ban has entered into force based on a communication of the Ministry for Environment. The Minister, Ms. Stefania Prestigiacomo, confirmed entry into force of the ban on 01/01/2011 and,...

Styron Europe: Price Increases for Polystyrene, ABS and SAN

23.12.2010 - Effective January 1, 2011, or as existing contract terms allow, Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe will increase the prices for all STYRON™ and STYRON A-TECH™ polystyrene grades, for all MAGNUM™ ABS resins and for all TYRIL™ SAN grades by 130 Euro per metric ton. These price increases...

BASF: Price increase for additives and pigments for plastic applications

22.12.2010 - Effective today, or as contracts allow, BASF increases prices globally for additives and pigments for plastic applications by a minimum of 7-25% depending on product class. Price increases will mainly apply to the following product classes: - Antioxidants and process stabilizers - Light stabilizers...

LANXESS to increase prices for its Baypren (CR) products

22.12.2010 - 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 € 400/mt (or US$ 500/mt). Reason being the continued high level of feedstock and energy prices as well...

Dow Coating Materials Announces Price Increases for All Polymer Dispersions and Additives in Europe, Middle East, and Africa

20.12.2010 - Dow Coating Materials announced last Friday a price increase for all polymer dispersion and additives sold to the architectural coatings, industrial coatings and traffic paint industries, effective January 10, 2011 or as contract terms allow. The following conditions apply: • Acrylic and styrene...

LANXESS increases prices for iron oxides

15.12.2010 - Subject to existing contracts, specialty chemicals group LANXESS is increasing its prices worldwide for iron oxide pigments by at least Euro 110 (or local currency equivalent) per metric ton, with immediate effect. The Inorganic Pigments business cites the continuation of elevated raw material,...

DSM announces price increase for its complete Unsaturated Polyester/Vinyl ester resin portfolio

14.12.2010 - DSM Composite Resins, a global leader in Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPR), is increasing the price of its complete portfolio of resins produced and sold as from January 10th 2011. Due to increased raw materials cost and higher feed stock prices, the price of DSM Composite Resins’s Unsaturated Polyester...

Tosaf: New, highly efficient antifog masterbatches for food packaging films

09.12.2010 - Tosaf presents newly developed, highly efficient antifog masterbatches for transparent polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP) food packaging films, announced the company. AF5979PE and AF4953LL prevent formation of water droplets on complex multilayer PE films. These masterbatches do not impact film...

DSM Engineering Plastics: Global price increase for Akulon PA compounds

08.12.2010 - DSM has announced its intention to increase prices for its Akulon® PA6 and PA66 compounds. This increase, which will be effective immediately, is to offset continued escalations in the costs of key raw materials. While DSM Engineering Plastics continues to pursue and implement cost savings initiatives...

EuPC: Material shortages still hitting plastics converters

07.12.2010 - ´Plastics processors in Europe are still suffering despite improvements in overall business conditions´, said Alexandre Dangis, speaking about the mounting raw material cost increases sustained by Europe´s plastics processors. The head of the industry´s Brussels organisation, European Plastics Converters...

Evonik: Price Increase for Carbon Black Rubber grades

07.12.2010 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black Rubber grades CORAX®, DUREX®, ECORAX® & PUREX® by 100,-€/ton in Europe and neighboring countries. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after January 1, 2011. Evonik Carbon...

Altuglas International: New Price Increase for Altuglas® Cast Sanitary Range

03.12.2010 - Altuglas International announced yesterday a new price increase of 350 €/ton on its Altuglas® Cast Acrylic Sheets Sanitary range for all deliveries in Europe, Middle East and Africa as of January 1st 2011. Tightness in availability of raw materials has driven to massive pricing escalation during...

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