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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...

Koch-Technik further extends its international sales and service network

17.02.2011 - Werner Koch Maschinentechnik GmbH, supplier of peripheral devices and complete systems to the plastic processing industry throughout the world, is extending its international sales and service network. In the middle of last year, St Petersburg-based Formet PM and Formet Plastic Machinery in Nischni...

Coperion: Preventive wear diagnosis guarantees constant product quality

17.02.2011 - COBRA LG: Video and laser-guided wear analysis Coperion GmbH presented its new COBRA LG wear diagnosis system at K 2010. With this new system it is possible to obtain rapid, comprehensive and relevant information on the actual state of wear of the inner walls of the barrels of extruding and compounding...

EuPC: Ingrid Verschueren new EuPC Packaging Manager

17.02.2011 - Since January 2011 Ingrid Verschueren has been appointed the new Packaging Manager at EuPC, the Brussels based plastics converters trade association. Ms Verschueren has a legal background and has been working for EuPC as Legal Director since 2006. She took over the management of the Packaging Division...

DSM announces price increase for complete UPR resin portfolio and Neoxil® range of Sizing & Binders

17.02.2011 - DSM Composite Resins, a global leader in Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPR), is increasing the price of its complete UPR resin portfolio and Neoxil® Sizings & Binders by 150 EUR/ton with effect of March 1, 2011. For specific resin, the increase will be higher than the latter, depending on the availability...

EMS-GRIVORY: Price increases for Grilamid, Grilamid and Grilon types

15.02.2011 - Effective March 1st 2011, EMS-GRIVORY (CH) will increase their prices in Europe by between 0.30-0.40 EUR/kg depending on product family. The products concerned are Grilamid PA12, Grilamid TR, Grivory GV/HT and Grilon A, B and TS. These price increases result chiefly from raw material costs which...

LANXESS steps up commitment to biobased raw materials

15.02.2011 - LANXESS is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubber from biobased raw materials. As part of this commitment, LANXESS has increased its minority shareholding in Gevo, Inc. that focuses on renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels. USD 17 million invested in Gevo’s IPO LANXESS’...

Bayer MaterialScience is developing innovative film technologies for the wireless industry

15.02.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has developed and applied for a patent on a technology that enables the efficient production of highly integrated electronic components with complex geometries. It is based on polycarbonate films and the use of printed polymer electronics, and it is suited for the direct integration...

European Bioplastics: 6th European Bioplastics Conference in November in Berlin

14.02.2011 - 22/23 November 2011, Maritim proArte Hotel, Berlin European Bioplastics, the association of the bioplastics industry in Europe, announces the 6th European Bioplastics Conference to take place on 22/23 November 2011 at the Maritim proArte Hotel in Berlin. Numerous studies assessing the bioplastics...

Zeppelin Anlagenbau: Management Board with new CEO

14.02.2011 - The Business Unit Plant Engineering of the ZEPPELIN Group has reorganized the Management Board. Bernhard Scherer, for 6 months member of the Management Board of Zeppelin Systems, has been appointed chairman from January 1st, 2011. Scherer succeeds Peter Gerstmann who has held a double function being...

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