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EuPR sets up a mixed plastics recycling working group

31.03.2011 - EuPR has created a new Working Group on Mixed Plastics in order to coordinate the mixed plastics recyclers’ initiatives and strengthen their position. Dr. Michael Scriba, Chairman of this new Group (CEO and shareholder of mtm plastics GmbH), underlines that “the aim of this group is to fight the current...

Mann+Hummel ProTec: Expertise and efficienct technologies in the processing of PET

29.03.2011 - At this year’s Interpack in Düsseldorf (May 12th – 18th), MANN+HUMMEL ProTec will present know-how and innovative systems for efficient material handling. The focus is on the treatment of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), a packaging material used in a wide variety of applications. In Düsseldorf,...

KraussMaffei and T.I.G. sign cooperation agreement on software solutions for machine and production data monitoring

28.03.2011 - KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH and Technische Informationssysteme GmbH (T.I.G.), Rankwill, Austria, recently signed a cooperation agreement. The two partners are committed to working closely together to develop, manufacture and market innovative solutions for networking plastics processing machinery...

Biffa Polymers: Opening of UK's first Mixed Plastic Sorting & Processing Facility

28.03.2011 - Biffa Polymers announced the opening of the UK’s first fully integrated sorting and recycling facility for mixed plastics creating 28 green jobs in Redcar, Middlesbrough. The facility won £1.187 million in funding from WRAP in January 2010, following WRAP research which demonstrated the environmental...

Songwon appoints Bodo Möller Chimica Italia as new distribution partner for Italy

25.03.2011 - Songwon, a global leader in the manufacture and delivery of additives for the plastics industry, and Bodo Möller Chimica Italia Srl., have entered into a distribution agreement for the market development and sales of the Songwon portfolio of products in Italy. The new partnership will become effective...

Bayer MaterialScience cooperates with Mito polimeri for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy

24.03.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has added the distributor Mito polimeri s.r.l. to its list partners for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy. The company has assumed the distribution activities previously performed by Bayer MaterialScience’s long-standing partners Mercatali s.r.l. (since 1973) and...

LANXESS: Price increase for rubber chemicals

24.03.2011 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is to increase its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals supplied by the Rubber Chemicals business unit effective April 1, 2011. This is primarily in response to steeply rising raw material costs. The price increase affects almost the entire product range of antioxidants...

Songwon announces global price increases for its range of Thioester Antioxidants

23.03.2011 - Songwon Industrial, a leading developer and manufacturer of polymer additives, will increase global prices for its range of Songnox® Thioester Antioxidants - Songnox® DSTDP, Songnox® DLTDP, and Songnox® DTDTP. The increases will range between 10 to 25% effective on orders received on or after March...

BASF: New Wind Turbines made from Luran S Styrenic Resin

23.03.2011 - The Dutch company EverkinetIQ International has developed in clause collaboration with Pekago, Albis and BASF its first small wind turbine in the PIQO Series with the aid of Luran® S KR 2858 G3, an ASA resin from BASF. The new product is intended to provide locally generated energy on industrial...

Evonik: Price increase for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations

23.03.2011 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations by up to 200 €/MT for deliveries to locations in Europe and ROW. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after April 1, 2011. Evonik Carbon...

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...

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