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DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers Increases Ethylene Copolymer Resin Prices

19.06.2008 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP, www.dupont.com) announced a price increase of up to 0,15 USD per pound for the following ethylene copolymer product lines: DuPont™ Appeel®, Bynel®, DuPontTM 20, Elvaloy®, Elvaloy® AC, Elvax®, Entira™, Fusabond®, Nucrel®, Selar®, and Surlyn®. The increase...

LME plastics contracts enhanced

18.06.2008 - The LME (www.lme.co.uk) has made further enhancements to the plastics contract specifications to provide a more accessible trading and price risk management environment. The contract enhancements follow the increasing recognition in the physical markets of the LME contracts, particularly since the...

DuPont™ Surlyn® Resin Adds a Touch of Glamour

18.06.2008 - A faceted closure, molded from DuPont™ Surlyn® PC2000 (www.dupont.com), adorns the latest fragrance from American pop-star Christina Aguilera. The manufacturer, Procter & Gamble prestige products of Cologne, Germany, selected the functional and aesthetic packaging material due to its glass-like transparency,...

DuPont: Filaments responds to extraordinary raw material cost increase crisis

11.06.2008 - DuPont Filaments - Americas, LLC, DuPont Filaments – Europe, BV and DuPont Xingda Filaments Company Limited (www.dupont.com), recently announced that they will implement additional structural price increases for their nylon 612 and nylon 610 toothbrush filaments effective July 1st, 2008. The price...

DSM: Price increases of its polyester portfolio in EMEA region

06.06.2008 - DSM Engineering Plastics (www.dsm.com) has announced a price increase for its range of polyester resins in Europe, effective June 15th, or as contracts permit, for all shipments. These increases affect both Arnitel® TPE and Arnite® PBT and PET products. The specific increases are as follows: ...

Ticona: price increases for thermoplastic resin grades worldwide

05.06.2008 - Ticona (www.ticona.com), the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation (www.celanese.com), recently announced price increases and a transportation surcharge for thermoplastic resin grades effective June 16, 2008, or as contracts allow, in North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa...

Borealis increases polyethylene and polypropylene prices

02.06.2008 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces that it will increase all polyethylene prices by EUR 80/tonne and all polypropylene prices by EUR 50/tonne as of June 1, 2008. “This increase is necessary to restore margins and to secure...

BASF to raise prices for Polystyrene in Europe

30.05.2008 - As of June 1, 2008, BASF (www.plasticsportal.eu) will raise its gross market price (GMP) for Polystyrene by €100 per metric ton. “Owing to the sharp increase in the cost of raw materials for Polystyrene in recent months, we find ourselves forced to make this unusually high price adjustment, to €1,525...

DuPont: Fluoropolymers for electrical insulation

30.05.2008 - Innovations in fluoropolymers include new products and technologies for low-loss DuPont™ (www.dupont.com) Teflon® PTFE and FEP wire constructions. A new foam grade, Teflon® FEP TE 9810, produces smaller, better dispersed and more homogenous voids compared to previous Teflon® foam grades for enhanced...

INEOS NOVA Announce Price Increase for Expandable Polystyrene (EPS)

29.05.2008 - INEOS NOVA (www.ineos-nova.com) announced recently that they are increasing the price for expandable polystyrene (EPS) by 100 Euro per tonne, effective June 1, 2008. This increase is necessary because of continuing large increases in feedstock costs and because margins in EPS have slipped to unsustainably...

TechnoCompound plans further expansion of LFT and engineering polymers production

28.05.2008 - Annual capacity more than doubled since 2005 Compounding specialist TechnoCompound, Bad Sobernheim/Germany, plans to further expand its production of long fibre reinforced thermoplastics (LFTs) and engineering polymers in the course of the next few years. This was the announcement made to journalists...

Borealis scientist appointed to Giulio Natta Award’s Scientific Committee

28.05.2008 - Thanks to the outstanding reputation of Borealis’ polyolefins research and development programme (www.borealisgroup.com), the Giulio Natta Award’s Scientific Committee has appointed Gunilla Herrgård, Chief Scientist for polyolefins research and development, as an official member. The Giulio Natta...

LANXESS increases prices for pigments worldwide

27.05.2008 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is to increase its prices for iron oxide and chrome oxide pigments worldwide with immediate effect. The prices for the Bayferrox and Colortherm lines will be increased by up to EUR 150 per metric ton, and for chrome oxide pigments by up to EUR...

Ceresana Research: New Study - Strong Growth in the Polypropylene Market

23.05.2008 - The body of the new Smart “Fortwo“ is, for the first time, being manufactured entirely from Polypropylene (PP), and similarly, the bumpers and dashboard of the new Fiat 500. This most versatile of plastics is constantly being used in an increasing amount of applications. Whether used in ice-trays, drinking...

EMS-GRIVORY: New, durable high-performance polyamide

23.05.2008 - The next generation of polyphthalamide Grivory HT3 is a new product line in the polyphthalamide (PPA) product range of EMS-GRIVORY (www.emsgrivory.com). Its special polymer structure allows a completely new performance spectrum, unique in this material group, to be achieved. Grivory HT3 stands out...

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