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Dow Europe announces price increase for MAGNUM™ ABS grades

30.09.2009 - Effective October 1, 2009, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) will increase its prices for all MAGNUM™ ABS grades by 90 Euro per metric tonne across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions.

Vinnolit increases Prices for PVC Specialities

28.09.2009 - As a consequence of the general market and business development, costs and margins for PVC specialities have substantially deteriorated since the beginning of the year. In this period, the ethylene price hiked by almost 70% and the price of the chlorine by-product caustic soda plummeted by more than...

Evonik: New single-component resin system for aircraft manufacturing

28.09.2009 - Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) will introduce a newly developed polyaryl ether amide resin system at this year’s technical conference of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) in Wichita, Kansas. The resin, sold under the brand name CALIDUR®, is a single-component...

Bayer MaterialScience develops customized polycarbonate grades for LED applications

25.09.2009 - With the growing trend towards the use of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) for innovative lamp and lighting concepts, Bayer MaterialScience has developed new grades of its transparent Makrolon® polycarbonate specifically for the production of these modern light sources. One important application for...

Dow Europe Announces Price Increase for Polyethylene Resins

24.09.2009 - Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) is announcing a price increase for polyethylene (PE) resins across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions, in an effort to recover its margins. Effective October 1, 2009, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all grades...

BASF raises prices for certain polyalcohols

22.09.2009 - BASF (www.basf.com) is raising the prices for its polyalcohols neopentylglycol (NPG), trimethylolpropane (TMP) and hydroxypivalic acid neopentylglycolester (HPN) worldwide with immediate effect or as allowed by contract: • Europe, Africa, Middle East: +EUR 0.14/kg • The Americas: +USD...

Evonik: PEEK Polymers Website Relaunched

17.09.2009 - In the first relaunch of the webpages for its VESTAKEEP® high temperature polymer Germany-based Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) has greatly expanded the website. "We attach great importance to a partnership with our customers that also affords them a glance into some of our technical information,"...

Gabriel-Chemie: New Compounds and Additives

17.09.2009 - Being specialised in the colouring and refining of plastics GABRIEL-CHEMIE Group in Gumpoldskirchen/Austria (www.gabriel-chemie.com) presents a bunch of new additives and masterbatches at the Fakuma 2009. Heavy weight and metallic look Some products have to have a certain weight in order to perceive...

PolyTherm: Specialist for TPU and TPE

14.09.2009 - The PolyTherm company (www.polytherm-kg.de) in Preussisch Oldendorf is an innovative company which was established in this sector 15 years ago and is specialised in the manufacture, treatment and machining of high-quality plastics such as polyurethane (TPU) and elastomers (TPE). The company produces...

Gabriel-Chemie: Capacity expansion at European sites

14.09.2009 - Gabriel-Chemie Group (www.gabriel-chemie.com) expands the capacities for the production of colour and additive masterbatches at the European sites. Production capacity at the main works in Gumpoldskirchen/Austria has been increased by 2,000 tons p.a. with six new extruders. This is also associated...

Evonik Röhm: Price Increase for PLEXIGLAS®, PLEXALLOY® and PLEXIMID® Molding Compounds

14.09.2009 - Evonik Röhm GmbH (www.evonik.com) is increasing its prices for the PMMA molding compounds it markets under the trademarks PLEXIGLAS®, PLEXALLOY® and PLEXIMID® effective October 1, 2009. As far as permissible under existing agreements, the price of all products will go up by EUR 0.10 per kilogram. ...

BASF restructures polyamide 6 production in Europe

09.09.2009 - Focus on Antwerp and Ludwigshafen Verbund sites BASF (www.basf.com) is restructuring its production of polyamide 6 in Europe. In the future, production will be bundled at BASF’s two Verbund sites in Antwerp, Belgium, and Ludwigshafen, Germany. Rudolstadt plant to be closed by the end of 2010 The...

KEP: New websites, brochures and FAKUMA fair presence

09.09.2009 - Korea Engineering Plastics now offers new ways of keeping their customers informed. The central Korean homepage www.kepital.com has been revised lately. Also a new European portal went live recently. At www.kepital.eu visitors will get regional information around KEPITAL in German and English language....

LANXESS: Preiserhöhung für NBR und CR

08.09.2009 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) has increased its prices for NBR (nitrile-butadiene rubber) and CR (chloroprene rubber) globally effective September 1, 2009. Dependent on regions the price adjustment per metric ton comprises...

BASF: Design ideas in Ultradur - New blend of ASA and PA

03.09.2009 - Seven works by students at the Royal College of Art in London will be exhibited by BASF (www.basf.com) at its booth at the FAKUMA trade fair. Design is one focal point of this year’s appearance of the company and what young designers are able to create using the plastic Ultradur® (PBT). In addition,...

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