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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...

SABIC: State-of-the-art polyolefin logistics centre reinforces SABIC’s long-term commitment to serving its UK customers

03.12.2010 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, officially opened – 22nd of November – its state-of-the-art polyolefin logistics centre in north-east England, which is replacing SABIC’s current logistics centre in the UK. Located in Middlesbrough, Cleveland,...

Styron Europe: Price increase for PC, compounds and blends

01.12.2010 - Effective December 10, 2010, or as existing contract terms allow, Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe will increase the prices for all CALIBRE™ polycarbonate grades and for all EMERGE™ polycarbonate compounds & blends products by 275 Euro per metric ton. These price increases...

Bluestar Silicones: Price increase for most of silicone product range

01.12.2010 - Due to continuous rising costs of raw materials since mid 2010 Bluestar Silicones will raise its Silicone product range prices by 5 to 10 % in the course of January 2011. Established in 2007 through the acquisition of Rhodia Silicones by China National BlueStar Corporation, Bluestar Silicones is...

BASF: Price increase for butanediol and its derivatives in Europe

30.11.2010 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products: • 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) +120 EUR/mt • Tetrahydrofuran (THF) +120 EUR/mt • Polytetramethylene ether glycol (PolyTHF®) for non-fiber applications +120 EUR/mt • N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone...

BASF and INEOS to establish a new leading global styrenics company called Styrolution

30.11.2010 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and INEOS Industries Holdings Limited (Lyndhurst, UK) have announced their intention to combine their global business activities in styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), styrene-butadiene block copolymers (SBC) and other styrene-based...

BASF increases prices for certain polyalcohols in Europe

29.11.2010 - BASF is increasing the prices of the polyalcohols neopentylglycol (NPG), trimethylolpropane (TMP), 1,6-hexanediol (HDO), epsilon-caprolactone (CLO), with immediate effect or as existing contracts permit in Europe. • Neopentylglycol (NPG): +100 EUR/mt • Trimethylolpropane (TMP): +100 EUR/mt • 1,6-Hexanediol...

DSM Engineering Plastics + K.D. Feddersen: Distribution Agrrement to strengthen presence in Danish Marketplace

24.11.2010 - DSM Engineering Plastics and K.D. Feddersen have entered into a distribution agreement, to join forces in the market development and sales of DSM Engineering Plastics resins in Denmark. The move is designed to strengthen the position of DSM Engineering Plastics in the Danish market, where the company...

Bayer MaterialScience announces price increase for thermoplastic polyurethane resins in Asia Pacific

24.11.2010 - Bayer MaterialScience has announced a price increase of USD 0.35 per kilogram on TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) resins effective December 1, 2010. The increase will affect all TPU products in the Asia Pacific region, including Desmopan®, Texin®, U-Flex® and Utechllan®, as the company explained....

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