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Husky announces sale of Injectoplast to Alpla

24.01.2012 - Husky Injection Molding Systems today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell Injectoplast, the former closure injection molding operation of KTW, to Alpla Holding GmbH, A-6971 Hard, Austria. Injectoplast was a division of KTW, a closure mold maker that Husky acquired in early 2011. At...

DuPont: New grade of low friction, low wear acetal resin for the healthcare industry

23.01.2012 - The range of high performance polymers available from DuPont for use in medical devices, including the new DuPont™ Delrin® SC699 acetal resin forms the focal point of the company’s exhibit at Pharmapack 2012 in Paris. Their use enables the design and manufacture of highly-accurate, reliable, durable...

DimeLika Plast: New range of PBT compounds

19.01.2012 - DimeLika Plast GmbH, headquartered in Brühl, Baden-Württemberg, are expanding their product line-up with the introduction of CompaDur®, a new product family of compounds based on polybutylene terephthalate (PBT). Alongside industrial-scale chemical companies, the Brühl-based company is one of the...

BASF to build an integrated 300,000 metric tons TDI plant in Ludwigshafen

18.01.2012 - BASF recently announced that it will build a single-train 300,000 metric tons per year production plant for TDI (toluene diisocyanate) and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in Ludwigshafen. These include the construction of a new hydrogen chloride recycling plant as well as the...

Engel: Hubertus Schulte named new CTO

18.01.2012 - With effect from 1st January, Dr. Hubertus Schulte (50) took over the responsibility for technology and production within the management team (CTO, Chief Technology Officer) of Engel Austria. Hubertus Schulte brings more than 20 years of international experience in plastics processing machines to the...

Celanese: Price increase for acetyl intermediates announced

18.01.2012 - Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, increased list and off-list selling prices for the following products effective January 15, 2012, or as contracts allow.

Coperion secures majority stake in PELL-TEC

17.01.2012 - Product portfolio now extended to include pelletizing technology With effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion GmbH has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH, Niedernberg, Germany. Established over ten years ago, PELL-TEC supplies pelletizing systems to customers operating...

Plastics recycling: Fees for RIGK customers remain stable in its 20th anniversary year

17.01.2012 - 2012, which marks the 20th anniversary of RIGK GmbH/Germany, will also see the company keeping the fees for its services stable. Despite peak gasoline prices and rising inflation, the users of RIGK’s recovery systems for industrial and commercial plastic packaging will be charged the same prices as...

Ashland to increase UPRs and gelcoats prices for EMEA

17.01.2012 - Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), is increasing the prices of its Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPRs) and gelcoats portfolio sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by 100 euros per ton effective February 1, 2012, or at the earliest possible time...

Arkema: Price increase of Evatane® EVA copolymers

16.01.2012 - Arkema announced an 80 €/MT price increase across its Evatane® range (High Content Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Copolymers) effective February 1st 2012. This price increase has become necessary as the cost of raw materials is again rising in January 2012 whereas EVA market prices seriously deteriorated...

Momentive: Price increase for epoxy resin products in the EMEA region

16.01.2012 - Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. recently announced that it will increase the prices for epoxy resin products in the EMEA region effective immediately, or as contract terms allow. Prices will increase by €130/mt due to significant increases in the cost of key raw materials, such as phenol.

Wittmann Battenfeld increases its production capacity at the Kottingbrunn facility

13.01.2012 - In response to the continuing positive order situation and, above all, strong demand for its new large machine model, the MacroPower, Wittmann Battenfeld has decided to increase its production capacity in 2012, announced the company. The MacroPower, the company’s large machine model introduced for...

EFIBCA: Oliver Grüters elected as President

12.01.2012 - Oliver Grüters, General Manager of Boxon GmbH in Willich, Germany, was elected as President of the European Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container Association (EFIBCA) by the Annual General Meeting in Dubai. He succeeds Dr Amir Samadijavan, Greif Flexibles Germany GmbH & Co. KG, who successfully set up...

LyondellBasell to close two PP production lines in Wesseling, Germany

09.01.2012 - LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced that it will shut down two polypropylene (PP) lines in Wesseling, Germany, by mid-2012. The lines, with a combined capacity of 90 KT per year, are among the company’s smallest and oldest PP production units. „We continue to focus on reducing costs to maintain...

Dow Europe: Price Increase for Polyethylene Resins

09.01.2012 - Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase for polyethylene (PE) resins across the European, Middle Eastern and African regions. Effective January 1, 2012, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH increased prices for all grades of its low-density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low-density polyethylene...

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