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Dow to raise prices for all STYROFOAM EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM products across Europe

09.05.2006 - Dow Chemical (www.dow.com) will raise prices for all STYROFOAM* EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE products across Europe due to continued increases in raw materials. The current pricing of STYROFOAM products does not allow for sufficient margins due to continued increases in raw materials. Based on this situation,...

SABIC Europe to increase May polyolefins prices in Europe

05.05.2006 - SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com) announced today that it will increase prices in Europe by €100 per metric ton for its HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE products and by €50 per metric ton for its PP, effective 1st May 2006. “Following the recent surge in oil prices to over $70 a barrel, a stepped rise in our...

PolyOne Builds on Range for Biodegradable Polymers

04.05.2006 - PolyOne (www.polyone.com) has recently developed a range of masterbatch products for use with biodegradable resins. Building on their initial product range PolyOne now offers both color and additive masterbatch for use with starch blend biopolymers, PLA, copolyesters and other biodegradable resins....

Rhodia Polyamide: Price Rise for TECHNYL® Polyamide Compounds announced

02.05.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia.com) announces a price increase of 200 € / MT for its TECHNYL® Polyamide compounds in Europe effective May 15th, 2006. This necessary price adjustment falls in line with the pricing policy led by Rhodia to compensate for the recurring rise in raw materials, energy and transport...

Dow Europe: Additional Price Increases for Polyethylene and Polystyrene Resins

28.04.2006 - Rising raw material and energy costs for polyethylene and polystyrene production are placing pressure on polyethylene and polystyrene resins producers. Based on these conditions, Dow Europe GmbH is announcing further price increase across the European region for all polyethylene and polystyrene resins....

DSM: price increase on unsaturated polyester resins and gelcoats products

28.04.2006 - DSM Composite Resins (www.dsmcompositeresins.com), Europe’s largest UP resin producer, will increase prices on all its unsaturated polyester resin and gelcoat products for shipments on or after the 1st of May 2006. All unsaturated polyester resin and gelcoats products except vinyl ester resins will...

NOVA Innovene: Polystyrene Price Increase for May

28.04.2006 - NOVA Innovene announced a price increase of 70 Euro per metric tonne for all Polystyrene (PS) products effective May 1st, 2006. The price increase is necessary to recover increasing feedstock costs which are being pushed up by record crude oil prices.

BASF and Toray start up PBT plant in Kuantan, Malaysia

24.04.2006 - Toray BASF PBT Resin Sdn. Bhd., a 50-50 joint venture between BASF Aktiengesellschaft (www.basf.com), Germany, and Toray Industries Inc., Japan (www.toray.co.jp), has successfully started commercial production on schedule at its newly built world-scale polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) plant at BASF’s...

SABIC Europe: price increase for PP Automotive grades

29.03.2006 - The PP Automotive business unit of SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com) announced today that it will increase the structural element of polypropylene pricing for all PP Automotive grades in Europe by 50 €/ metric ton as per 1st April 2006. This structural increase will be applied on top of the price...

Borealis to close HDPE plant in Norway

14.03.2006 - In a meeting today, the Board of Borealis AS (www.borealisgroup.com) agreed to close the Borealis high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Bamble, Norway. The Board recommends that the Supervisory Board of Borealis AS concludes to close the 110,000 tonnes per year plant in 2006. “Our aim is to now...

Rhodia Polyamide: Price increase for PA announced

13.03.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia.com) announces a worldwide 120 Euro/per ton price increase for its STABAMID® Polyamide resins and salt and TECHNYL® Polyamide PA6 and PA 6,6 compounds effective immediately. On top of high global demand, raw material, energy and transportation costs continue to increase...

J&A Plastics: New nanocomposites for packaging

07.03.2006 - What good is a top-quality product if it does not reach the end-consumer at the promised quality standard For this reason, modern packaging must not only protect against damage and soiling, but also secure against loss of vitamins, aromas, moisture, micro-organisms, etc. Furthermore, it must be easy...

Dow to sell Superabsorbent Products Business to Degussa

15.02.2006 - Dow (www.dow.com) announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Superabsorbent Products (SAP) business to Degussa AG (www.degussa.de). Close of the transaction is dependent upon regulatory approvals. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "It was becoming increasingly...

Basell plans to close its plant in Pernis, Netherlands in mid-2007

14.02.2006 - As part of an ongoing review of the company’s manufacturing assets to assess their long-term viability, Basell is planning to close its 260 KT per year LIPP polypropylene technology plant in Pernis, The Netherlands by the middle of 2007. “It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our...

Basell to increase PP and PE prices in Europe

01.02.2006 - Basell (www.basell.com) announced that it will increase prices by € 100 per tonne on all polypropylene and polyethylene grades sold in Europe effective February 1. “This increase is necessary due to the continued climb in crude oil prices since the start of the year,” said Werner Breuers, president...

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