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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...

Uhde Inventa-Fischer: New polyamide 6 plant for Kuibyshev Azot, Russia

06.02.2008 - In December 2007, Uhde Inventa-Fischer (www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) was awarded a third major contract by Kuibyshev Azot to construct a further polyamide 6 plant. The total capacity of this plant is about 54,000 tpa. The cooperation between Uhde Inventa-Fischer and Kuibyshev Azot dates back to...

DSM Engineering Plastics: New Breaktrough Polymer PA4T

01.02.2008 - DSM Engineering Plastics (www.dsmep.com) has announced the development of PA4T, a new polymer which extends the portfolio for high performance engineering thermoplastics. DSM Engineering Plastics is the inventor and global market leader in high performance polyamides with Stanyl®, a polyamide 46. ...

GW Plastics: Expansion into Liquid Silicones

01.02.2008 - Global precision molder and contract manufacturer GW Plastics (www.gwplastics.com) has announced its expansion into the Liquid Silicone (LSR) market with the creation of GW Silicones. GW Silicones will be located at GW Plastics’ Royalton, Vermont, technology and tooling campus and will provide extensive...

Reichhold: Investment in India

01.02.2008 - Reichhold (www.reichhold.com), the world´s largest supplier of unsaturated polyester resins, has announced its intention to invest in a Greenfield facility in India. The company has started construction at a site located at Ranjangoan, in Pune District of Maharashtra state. The new facility is scheduled...

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...

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