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DuPont: Price Increases in Europe, Middle East and Africa for all Ethylene Copolymer Resins

22.03.2011 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, a price increase of up to 15%, depending on the grade, on all grades of DuPont Ethylene Copolymer resins. This action is in addition to the previously communicated January 1, 2011 increases and will take effect...

FKuR: New transparent and flexible biopolymer for blown film extrusion

21.03.2011 - FKuR has launched a new transparent, flexible biopolymer. Called Bio-Flex® F 2201 CL this material contains a high content of renewable resources and, in line with the other resins in the Bio-Flex® family, can be processed easily on standard LDPE blown film lines and converting equipment. With a...

Altuglas International: Price increases for PMMA acrylic resins

21.03.2011 - Altuglas International will increase prices from +150 to +200 Euros per metric ton of its PMMA resins product range marketed under the Altuglas® trademark. This price increase will be implemented to all shipments from April 1st 2011 in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The price revision is...

BASF raises prices of propionic acid in Europe and Asia

21.03.2011 - Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for propionic acid in Europe by 200 Euro per ton and in Asia by 200 US-Dollars per ton. BASF claims itself as a leading supplier of propionic acid with production facilities at its Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany,...

Coca-Cola Enterprises joint venture set to step change plastics recycling in GB

21.03.2011 - CCE invests £5m in new plant to more than double GB production of food-grade recycled PET. Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) recently announced a joint venture with ECO Plastics to develop a new purpose-built recycling facility in Lincolnshire. The deal marks a step change in the GB plastic reprocessing...

Ticona Increases Prices in Europe, Middle East and Africa

17.03.2011 - Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is increasing prices for: • Polyester products (Celanex® PBT, Vandar® PBT, Impet® PET and Riteflex® TPC-ET) € 0.15/kg, or higher on selected products. This increase takes effect on customer shipments beginning April 4th, 2011, or...

Borealis: Pioneering polypropylene solutions for automotive engineering

16.03.2011 - Pioneering developments in high performance polypropylenes (PP) under the bonnet and on the vehicle exterior take centre stage on Borealis and Borouge will present at conference “Plastics in Automotive Engineering”. Exhibited will the glass-reinforced PP air intake manifold (AIM) now fitted to all 1.4...

Oxea: Price Increases for Amines, Polyoles and Carboxylic Acids

16.03.2011 - Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the products below effective April 1, 2011, or as contracts allow.

Bayer MaterialScience to invest Euro 100 million in Germany

14.03.2011 - MDI plant Brunsbüttel: rise of production capacity to 420,000 metric tons a year Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is...

LANXESS to expand global production network for high-tech plastics

10.03.2011 - LANXESS is expanding its global production network for high-tech plastics. The specialty chemical company broke ground today on a new compounding facility in the United States. Additionally, LANXESS and U.S. chemical company DuPont will double the capacity of their joint compounding facility in Hamm-Uentrop,...

S+S: VTC group in Munich acquires a 70 percent interest

10.03.2011 - The ownership of S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH in Schönberg has changed. With effect from from 1 January 2011 the Munich based VTC Group has acquired a 70 percent interest in the business. The objective of the acquisition for the previous shareholders is to ensure the successful growth...

Bayer MaterialScience develops innovative method for incorporating fillers into reactive polyurethane blends

09.03.2011 - With the Solid Injection by Air Stream (SIA) method from Bayer MaterialScience, the solids are transported in a gas stream and only injected into the mixing chamber during the blending phase. This method opens up entirely new possibilities for the use of composite materials, regardless of whether they...

Coperion: Large order for 100 million Euros by Borouge

08.03.2011 - Coperion GmbH landed the biggest single contract in the company´s history with a volume of 100 million Euros in the fourth quarter of 2010. The company was contracted by Borouge, a Joint Venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Borealis, to build the entire materials handling systems for...

BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives in Europe

07.03.2011 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products: 1,4 Butanediol (BDO): +200 EUR/mt Tetrahydrofuran (THF): +250 EUR/mt Polytetramethylene ether glycol (PolyTHFR): +300 EUR/mt N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP): +200...

DuPont: High performance polymers for use in medical devices

07.03.2011 - Specific grades of DuPont engineering polymers that meet demanding requirements for use in medical equipment form the focal point of the company’s exhibit on stand 4538 at Medtec Europe 2011 in Stuttgart (22 - 24 March 2011). The availability of these specialty health care grades broadens the choice...

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