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LANXESS: Increased prices for synthetic rubber grades

01.04.2008 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is to increase its prices worldwide for a number of its synthetic rubber grades effective April 1, 2008. According to an announcement by the Technical Rubber Products business unit, the price increase per metric ton will comprise up to EUR 100...

BASF to raise prices for two styrenic plastics types in Europe

31.03.2008 - As of April 1, 2008, BASF (www.basf.com) will be raising prices in Europe for the styrenic plastics commodity Terluran® (ABS: acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer) by 70 euros per metric ton. At the same time the prices for the styrenics plastics specialty Luran® (SAN: styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer)...

LANXESS: Price adjustment for rubber chemicals

31.03.2008 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is to increase its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals effective April 1, 2008. The Rubber Chemicals business unit sees itself forced to take this step because the costs for raw materials, transport and energy have risen significantly. Depending...

BASF to sell Seal Sands site in the UK to INEOS Nitriles

14.03.2008 - Focus on core assets of the polyamide value chain BASF SE (www.basf.com)and INEOS Nitriles (www.ineos.com, www.ineosnitriles.com) announced recently that they have reached an agreement for INEOS Nitriles to buy the Seal Sands site of BASF plc on Teesside in the United Kingdom. The acquisition is...

INEOS Polyolefins announces extension of Grangemouth PP and PE

13.03.2008 - INEOS Polyolefins (www.ineos.com) recently today announced its intention to invest in random co-polymer technology on its liquid pool polypropylene (PP) unit at Grangemouth, Scotland. By linking ethylene supply from its crackers to the PP unit, random co-polymer grades with a wide range of melt flow...

Celanese: Global Price Increase for PVOH

10.03.2008 - Celanese (www.celanese.com), a global leader in the chemicals industry, announced recently that it will increase the price of all polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) grades. This increase applies to all applications in all regions as noted below. The increase will be effective for shipments on or after April 1,...

BASF: New Ultraform grades for blow molding

10.03.2008 - Be it hairspray bottles, paint cans or oil tanks – thanks to BASF’s (www.plasticsportal.eu, www.basf.de) new Ultraform® E3120 BM, hollow objects with demanding requirements can now be made of polyoxymethylene (POM) by means of extrusion blow molding. In comparison to containers made of polyethylene...

Perlon Monofil: New production line goes on stream at Perlon Monofil

06.03.2008 - Investment to meet rising demand / Annual capacity now well over 5,000 tons In March 2008, Perlon Monofil GmbH started up a new production line for Perlon monofilaments at its Dormagen site. The new capacity will enable this LANXESS subsidiary (www.lanxess.de) to build on its global position as a...

BASF: New polyamides for coolant circuit

06.03.2008 - Recently, BASF (www.plasticsportal.eu, www.basf.de) has added two new hydrolysis-resistant polyamides (PA 66) to its product range. These plastic grades are called Ultramid® A3WG6 HRX and A3WG7 HRX and are reinforced with 30% and 35% glass fibers, respectively. The products were developed for applications...

BASF: Milk bottles made of Polystyrene

25.02.2008 - Right in time for the K 2007, BASF (www.basf.com) joined forces with ALPLA, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic beverage bottles, to come up with a bottle for milk and yoghurt beverages using impact resistant Polystyrene (PS-I). This demonstrates that Polystyrene is an inexpensive alternative...

DuPont: Two DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA Products Help Tire Pressure Monitoring System Stand Up to

25.02.2008 - SmarTire Systems Inc. tapped DuPont Automotive and high performance characteristics of DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA and Zytel® HTN PPA SuperStructural resins for a lightweight and durable casing for SmarTire’s new externally-mounted Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) used as part of the SmartWave® system...

LyondellBasell to stop HMS polypropylene production in Varennes, Quebec in April 2008

19.02.2008 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) announced recently that it will stop producing High Melt Strength (HMS) polypropylene at its Varennes, Quebec site in April 2008. The HMS unit is expected to continue normal operations until then. Yves Bonte, Senior Vice President of Polypropylene...

aluplast + BASF: Getting rid of another thermal bridge

18.02.2008 - The German window system manufacturer aluplast (www.aluplast.de) is launching a window system that is highly thermally insulating as well as cost-effective, thanks to a version of Ultradur® High Speed (PBT) which BASF (www.basf.de/ultradur) developed especially for this company. This glassfiber-reinforced...

Chemtura raises prices on polypropylene-based coupling agents and impact modifiers

18.02.2008 - Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM, www.chemtura.com) is announcing a worldwide off list price increase of $0.44/kg for polypropylene based Polymer Modifiers (POLYBOND® 1001/1002/3000/3002/3150/3200), and Royaltuf® 485 and 498, effective March 1, 2008, or where contracts allow. Continued cost escalation...

Loyal Group: EPS producer invests in Poland

06.02.2008 - The world’s largest EPS producer Loyal Group (www.loyal.com.tw) will invest EURO 20m in a new plant in Poland. This new project in the town of Police will have an initial capacity of 100,000 t/y, will employ about 100 people and is scheduled to start in 2010. The plant will draw styrene monomer supplied...

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