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European Commission Gives Clearance for INEOS acquisition of Hydro Polymers

31.01.2008 - INEOS Capital (www.ineos.com) confirms that it has yesterday received unconditional clearance from the European Commission for the purchase of the Hydro Polymers businesses in Norway, Sweden and the UK from Norsk Hydro ASA. The acquisition was agreed with Norsk Hydro last year and includes the remaining...

BASF reorganizes its masterbatch business

31.01.2008 - • Five BASF Color Solutions companies in Europe • Strategic focus on clearly defined market segments • Network of locations optimizes customer service BASF (www.basf.com) is reorganizing its masterbatch business in Europe. In the future, BASF’s specialists for coloring a wide...

Metal Detectors ‘See’ Parts Molded From New DuPont™ Delrin® Grade

17.01.2008 - New DuPont™ Delrin® 400MTD (www.dupont.com, www.plastics.dupont.com) acetal resin aims to open up more applications in food processing conveyors. Made with a proprietary metal filler, it can be detected by most metal-sensing equipment in the unlikely event of a part’s entry into the process stream....

Evonik: Price Increases for Pigment Blacks and for Matting Agents

17.01.2008 - Evonik Industries´ Inorganic Materials Business Unit (www.evonik.com) announces a price increase for pigment blacks, effective for deliveries in Europe from February 1, 2008. Manufacturing costs of pigment blacks have been increasing continuously for some time, and feedstock costs are now at an...

INEOS NOVA Announce Price Increases for Expandable Polystyrene (EPS)

09.01.2008 - INEOS NOVA (www.ineos-nova.com) announced recently that they are increasing the price for expandable polystyrene (EPS) resins by €70/MT with immediate effect for January, and by a further €50/MT effective February 1st 2008. "Margins are at unsustainably low levels as a result of price decreases during...

LANXESS increases prices for EPDM rubber

08.01.2008 - Effective January 1, 2008, LANXESS’s Technical Rubber Products (TRP, www.lanxess.com) business unit is to increase its prices worldwide for EPDM rubber grades (ethylene-propylene-diene rubber) by up to EUR 200 per metric ton or USD 290 per metric ton respectively depending on market region and product...

LANXESS increases prices for two basic chemicals

20.12.2007 - Specialty chemical company LANXESS (www.lanxess.com) is increasing its prices worldwide for hexane diol (HDO) and trimethylol propane with immediate effect. In Europe, the price per metric ton is to increase by EUR 60 and elsewhere by USD 200. These increases are being caused by significant rises in...

Bayer MaterialScience raises prices for polyurethane raw materials

12.12.2007 - Effective January 1, 2008, Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.de) is raising its sales prices for several polyurethane raw materials in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Prices for polyether polyols will rise by EUR 0.10 per kilogram. The price of toluene diisocyanate (TDI)...

LANXESS invests EUR 10 million in Antwerp to strengthen its competitiveness

12.12.2007 - Innovative production process for accelerators LANXESS’s Rubber Chemicals (RUC, www.lanxess.com) business unit is investing EUR 10 million in its rubber chemicals plant in Antwerp. The investment will be utilized for the implementation of an innovative production process for accelerators as well...

BASF raises prices for polyalcohols

03.12.2007 - BASF (www.basf.com) is to increase its prices in Europe for neopentylglycol, trimethylolpropane and hydroxypivalic acid neopentylglycolester with immediate effect or as allowed by contract: • Neopentylglycol (NPG) + euros 0.15/kg • Trimethylolpropane (TMP) + euros 0.19/kg • Hydroxypivalic acid...

Rhodia Polyamide Announces a Price Increase in Europe, Middle East and Africa for its Polyamide Compounds

30.11.2007 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia-polyamide.com) announces a 150 to 200 €/MT price increase for its Polyamide 6 and 6.6 Technyl® compounds in Europe, Middle East and Africa, effective January 1st, 2008 - or as contracts allow - to help offset rising raw material, transport and energy costs. Further Rhodia...

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions announces DuPont™ Butacite® PVB price increase

21.11.2007 - DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions (www.dupont.com) recently announced a price increase of 15 percent on all grades of DuPont™ Butacite® polyvinyl butyral interlayer effective January 1, 2008. The price increase will be applied globally. DuPont stated that this action is required due to the continued...

Equipolymers Completes Re-vamping of Ottana PET Train

19.11.2007 - Equipolymers (www.equipolymers.com) has completed the construction of a state-of-the-art polycondensation line for the production and manufacture of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) at its production centre in Ottana, Italy. The new production facility started production on 1st November 2007. Incorporating...

A. Schulman: Price adjustments announced by the masterbatch business unit

16.11.2007 - Despite changes in masterbatch pricing due to raw material cost increases, product margins have continued to erode throughout 2007. Efforts to improve productivity and equipment utilisation have not fully overcome the impact of increases in other key cost elements like transport and energy together...

BASF increases capacity for epsilon-caprolactone

16.11.2007 - BASF (www.basf.com) will begin expanding its production capacity for epsilon-caprolactone (CLO) with a first project to raise its annual capacity by up to 2,000 metric tons in 2008. In line with market growth, further capital has been earmarked for projects to expand CLO and its value chain in subsequent...

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