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Materia Nova: „Bioplastics: (Reactive) Compounding and Related Industrial Applications”

28.02.2011 - Technical conference, 25-05-2011, Ghislenghien, Belgium The second technical conference dedicated to “Bioplastics: (reactive) Compounding and related applications” will take place on May 25th, 2011 at Best Western Horizon Hotel in Ghislenghien, Belgium, ideally located between Lille (France) and...

Bayer MaterialScience inaugurates new polyisocyanates unit in India

24.02.2011 - Production of polyurethane raw materials for coatings and adhesives Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar, in the state of Gujarat, India. Polyisocyanates are used as raw materials for the production of polyurethane coatings and adhesives....

CSM and Indorama Ventures in Alliance Discussion for PLA

24.02.2011 - CSM´s subsidiary Purac and Indorama Ventures PLC (IVL) are in discussions to set up a Polylactic acid (PLA) manufacturing facility in Thailand, with an initial capacity of 10,000 tons per annum being raised to 100,000 tons per annum after developing application specific grades. This product would be...

Clariant’s Masterbatches Business increases prices

23.02.2011 - The Masterbatches Business Unit of Clariant, a leading masterbatches player globally, announces global price increases for most of its products. The price adjustments are necessary to compensate for rising oil prices and significant cost increases for all masterbatch-relevant raw materials. "We...

Teijin: Price increases for Polycarbonate and Polycarbonate Blends

23.02.2011 - Effective March 1, 2011, or as contract terms allow, Teijin Kasei Europe B.V. will increase prices for its Polycarbonate and Polycarbonate Blends by 450 Euro per metric ton across the European region.

Borealis upgrades performance of polyethylene for gas pipes

23.02.2011 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, is extending its range of high performance, high density polyethylene pipes with the introduction of a new “PE 100” type grade for the gas market, BorSafe™ HE3492-LS-H. With the launch of this new BorSafe grade, Borealis...

Coperion: Polyolefin extruders - Increased torque and new model ZSK 420

23.02.2011 - At K 2010 in Duesseldorf Coperion GmbH (formerly Werner & Pfleiderer) featured two further developments of its high capacity extruders for the compounding of polyolefins. The specific torque of the ZSK MEGAcompounders with screw diameters of 177 mm and over has been increased from 11.3 to 12.5 Nm/cm³....

Pallmann doubles orders - International and national growth progressing swiftly

22.02.2011 - Size reduction technology specialist Pallmann Group reports very strong growth for 2010. Incoming and booked orders were twice the level of 2009, and incoming orders were even up by around ten percent over 2008, the company’s previous record year. The company has laid a solid foundation for further...

Clariant’s Pigments Business increases prices

22.02.2011 - Clariant´s Business Unit Pigments, a world leader in organic pigments and dyes, announces price increases across its product portfolio. The adjustments, which take immediate effect, are necessary to recover significant on-going cost inflation in raw materials, labor, energy and transportation, says...

LPKF LaserWelding clean room starts operations

21.02.2011 - The new clean room in Erlangen, Germany, started operations at the end of 2010. LPKF LaserWelding uses it for welding-process evaluations, especially for particularly sensitive plastic products. Microfluidic systems are tiny magic boxes used to carry out complex analysis or processes in a minimal...

Styron Europe: Price Increases for Polycarbonate and Compounds & Blends

18.02.2011 - Effective March 1, 2011, or as existing contract terms allow, Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe will increase the prices for all CALIBRE™ polycarbonate grades and for all EMERGE™ polycarbonate compounds & blends products by 400 Euro per metric ton. These price increases are...

Semperit: Record revenue and earnings achieved

18.02.2011 - The Semperit Group could achieve a new revenue and earnings record in 2010. Based on a clearly improved level of demand, total revenue of the Semperit Group rose by 17.2% to EUR 689.4 million in the 2010 financial year. At the same time, despite massive price rises for the most important raw materials,...

EuPC signs cooperation agreement with Thomsea to clean up European coastal waters

18.02.2011 - The European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC) has signed a co-operation agreement with the inventor of a new trawling net to help retrieve plastics Marine litter. This is part of EuPC’s programme to address an escalating issue which in recent years has secured prime time television coverage and...

DSM Engineering Plastics announces prices increases for Stanyl

17.02.2011 - Due to unprecedented and continued escalations in key raw materials costs (such as adipic, glass fiber, flame retardants and others), DSM Engineering Plastics is forced to increase prices for its Stanyl® product range on top of 2010 price increases. DSM remains committed to continued implementation...

Bayer starts pilot plant for plastic manufacturing with CO2

17.02.2011 - Bayer is taking a new direction in the production of high-quality plastics with the help of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the energy sector. A pilot plant has come on stream at Chempark Leverkusen to trial the new process on a technical scale. The plant produces a chemical precursor into which CO2 is incorporated...

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