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ENGEL appoints new managing director in Mexico

08.02.2011 - ENGEL Mexico´s new managing director took up his position 1 February 2011. The company is excited to have recruited Peter Auinger, an experienced injection moulding machine expert, for this strategically important market. Peter Auinger has taken up the reins with the aim of positioning ENGEL as a...

LANXESS: Price adjustment for engineering plastics

08.02.2011 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is to increase its prices for Durethan Compounds (Polyamide Compounds, PA) and Pocan Compounds (Polybutylenterephthalate Compounds, PBT) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by at least EUR 0.30 per kilogram effective February 14, 2011. This price adjustment...

FKuR: First Biodegradable Toothpaste Tube

08.02.2011 - Tectubes introduces the world’s first truly biodegradable toothpaste tube made from FKuR’s bioresins. Tectubes injection mould, extrude and print the various parts of the tube. The tube itself stands out due to its excellent mechanical properties. “Using bio resins for such an application was a challenge...

ILLIG: Technical Training for Thermoformers – New Concept for Training Program

08.02.2011 - Since the beginning of this year ILLIG has been offering a completely new set of training courses for qualification of personnel in the thermoforming sector. Practically relevant theory imparted by means of interactive training material is directly broadened by hands-on exercises on respective machines....

Altuglas International: Price increases for acrylic sheet

08.02.2011 - Altuglas International, subsidiary of Arkema Group, recently announced an increase of 6% for PMMA cast & extruded sheet in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The implementation will be as of March 2011. The price revision is the result of continuous raw materials price hikes.

Polyester consortium takes over Trevira

07.02.2011 - Trevira GmbH is to have new owners. A consortium of Indorama Ventures PCL (Thailand) and Sinterama (Italy) is taking over Trevira, the polyester fibre manufacturer headquartered in Bobingen, Germany. On 4 February 2011 the consortium signed a share purchase agreement for the acquisition with CA Werner...

LANXESS to expand bladder production in Argentina

07.02.2011 - LANXESS continues to expand its activities in the growing Latin America region. The specialty chemicals company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Rhein Chemie will invest a single-digit million USD amount in its newly-acquired production site in Burzaco, Argentina. Rhein Chemie plans to expand bladder production...

DSM Engineering Plastics to sell Yparex® Business to Resin B.V.

04.02.2011 - DSM Engineering Plastics announces it has reached an agreement for the sale of its Yparex® adhesives business to RESIN (Products & Technology) B.V., a Netherlands-based compounding company. The sale is expected to close in Q1 2011, subject to regulatory and other customary approvals and notifications....

Styron Europe: Price Increases for Polystyrene, ABS and SAN

04.02.2011 - Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe will increase the prices for all STYRON™ and STYRON A-TECH™ polystyrene grades, for all MAGNUM™ ABS resins and for all TYRIL™ SAN grades by 110 Euro per metric ton. These price increases...

LANXESS: Dr. Bernhard Düttmann to become Chief Financial Officer

03.02.2011 - The Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG agreed at its extraordinary meeting today to revoke the contract of Matthias Zachert (43), Member of the Board of Management and Chief Financial Officer, as of March 31, 2011. Zachert had requested the Board to do so accordingly. In his current function, he has been...

DSM Engineering Plastics announces prices increases for Akulon and Novamid PA

03.02.2011 - DSM Engineerging Plastics Europe has announced it will increase prices for its Akulon and Novamid PA6 and PA66 portfolios, due to unprecedented and continued escalations in key raw materials costs (such as benzene, caprolactam, glass fiber, flame retardants and others). Since the beginning of 2011,...

LANXESS produces five millionth metric ton of caprolactam

02.02.2011 - With the beginning of February 2011, the specialty chemicals group LANXESS has produced the five millionth metric ton of its plastics precursor caprolactam at its facility in Antwerp, Belgium. This is the equivalent of roughly 250,000 tankers full. The world-scale facility in the port of Antwerp commenced...

Bayer MaterialScience inaugurates Color Competence and Design Center in India

02.02.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has now inaugurated its Color Competence and Design Center in Greater Noida, near New Delhi. This new center provides products and solutions for polycarbonate compounds, ranging from color matching and small-scale production, to the broad range of technical services to support...

Gneuss: BASF improves ABS Quality with new Melt Filtration System

02.02.2011 - BASF has invested in improving the quality and efficiency of its ABS production, with advanced polymer melt filtration systems. It was necessary to reduce filtration fineness. However: With a conven-tional screen changer, finer filtration automatically means shorter time intervals between screen changes....

BASF: Operations at expanded Ecoflex plant started

01.02.2011 - BASF has started operations at its expanded plant for the production of the biodegradable plastic Ecoflex®. Expansion of the existing plant in Ludwigshafen will increase production capacity for Ecoflex from 14,000 to 74,000 metric tons per year. At the same time, BASF will ramp up compounding capacity...

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