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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...

Kreyenborg: New series of pumps for thermally sensitive polymers

01.02.2011 - Current technology offers different types of gear pumps, (e.g. the pump body of steel plate construction or forged steel construction) which are used in extrusion lines for metering the melt and also to increase the melt pressure. Generally speaking, the pumps are electrically heated by means of cartridge...

Songwon focuses on local customer support with Caldic as new distribution partner for France and the Benelux

31.01.2011 - Songwon, a global leader in the manufacture and delivery of additives for the plastics industry, has chosen Caldic as its distribution partner in France and the Benelux region. The new partnership took effect on January 1, 2011. Caldic is a producer and key distributor of chemicals throughout Europe...

BASF: New engineering plastics for the medical sector

31.01.2011 - BASF is adding three new products from two classes of material to its medical-technology plastics portfolio identified by the suffix “PRO”. In the POM product line (POM: polyoxymethylene; polyacetal), these are the two new grades Ultraform® N2320 003 PRO and Ultraform® H4320 PRO. They are joined by...

BASF increases prices for Polyurethane products in Europe

28.01.2011 - With immediate effect, or as contract terms allow, BASF will be increasing its prices for MDI, TDI and Polyols in Europe on average by 250 Euro per metric ton. Prices for Polyurethane Systems will be increased accordingly.

DSM Engineering Plastics introduces Akulon RC

28.01.2011 - DSM Engineering Plastics has announced the commercialization of Akulon® RC, a portfolio of Recycle Content grades of PA6 for use in Automotive under-the-bonnet applications. The first Akulon RC grades under development are a 30% and a 35% glass filled grade with 50% recycle content. These grades...

ILLIG: „Weltmarktführer-Schwinge“ – Global Market Leader Award for ILLIG

27.01.2011 - On occasion of the book lauch “Lexikon der deutschen Weltmarktführer“ (encyclopedia of German Global Market Leaders) at Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch-Hall/Germany, January 24, 2011, the enterprises included in this new reference book received the “Weltmarktführer-Schwinge“ award. ILLIG, being the leading...

KraussMaffei: System supplier for new IAC plant in Bals (Romania)

26.01.2011 - The automotive components supplier IAC Group (Krefeld, Germany) has chosen KraussMaffei as system supplier to equip the company´s new production plant in Bals (Romania). The order, valued in the double-digit million range, includes supplying and assembling systems, machinery and molds, developing, planning...

Korea: Major order for Kreyenborg, BKG and Witte to provide equipment for a new PET plant

26.01.2011 - Recently the KREYENBORG GmbH and the Bruckmann & Kreyenborg GmbH (BKG), (both belonging to the Kreyenborg Group, Münster, Westphalia) together with their partner company WITTE Pumps & Technology GmbH (Uetersen); were able to win a major contract from the South Korean concern, Hyosung. The challenge...

Bayer MaterialScience stepping up activities in Russia in cooperation with ALBIS

25.01.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience is stepping up its activities in Russia by expanding its cooperation with the ALBIS Group, Hamburg. In the Russian Federation the Leverkusen-based company has now added the international distributor ALBIS to its existing partners for the distribution of the high-performance plastics...

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