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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...

Rhodia Polyamide: Price Increase for Adipic Acid

19.01.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price rise for Adipic Acid effective immediately. The new price reflects an increase of 130 € / MT in Europe and 150 USD / MT in Asia. Underlying this need for price adjustment is the unprecedented rise in the costs of energy, particularly gas, and raw materials such...

FKuR: Novel transparent PLA/Polyester film for fine packaging design

21.12.2005 - The "Nature-Compounds" product range from FKuR Kunststoff GmbH (www.fkur.de) has been extended with the new Bio-Flex 467F product, an universally usable, biologically decomposable granulate for use in production of film. The advantages of the new formulation lie in the good properties in the film application,...

Eastman: New Specialty Plastics resin distributor for Austrian market

31.10.2005 - Eastman Chemical Company (www.eastman.com) has announced the appointment of Gangus Plastic as the new distributor for its Specialty Plastics (Division) in Austria. Gangus Plastic Vertriebsges. mbH, the Austrian subsidiary of Albis Plastic GmbH, will distribute a wide range of products on behalf of...

Ticona Introduces Lower-Cost Topas® COC Grade for Flexible Packaging

28.10.2005 - Ticona (www.ticona.com), the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, has introduced a new, more cost-effective grade of Topas® COC (cyclic olefin copolymer) for packaging applications. This second-generation COC, Topas 8007F-100, provides a broad processing window and an excellent cost-performance...

EuPC: European Plastics Converters Brace Themselves For Further Price

27.10.2005 - If, as expected, the prices of plastics raw materials continue their steady climb owing to the persistence of higher oil prices and a shortage of the materials in Europe, plastics converters will have no option but to significantly increase the prices of their own products, the industry´s Brussels-...

DuPont: announces price increase for all Vespel® parts

12.10.2005 - The European headquarters of DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) today announced an increase of 8% for all DuPont™ Vespel® engineered parts. Higher percentages may apply to certain specialty products. The increase will take effect in Europe, Middle East and Africa with all orders placed as...

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