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Nordson BKG: Optimized water system and bigger type of pelletizer

21.11.2013 - On occasion of K-Show 2013 Nordson BKG GmbH presented an optimized "Polygonfilter"-system (2nd generation of the BKG Optigon water system), new cutter hub as well as a new bigger type of pelletizer, aiming at higher throughput rates. The new generation of the Nordson BKG water system Optigon focuses...

Nordson Kreyenborg: New polymer valve

21.11.2013 - At K-Show 2013 Nordson KREYENBORG GmbH presented its latest developments in the field of melt filtration solutions. Besides some completely new and some modified screen changers Nordson Kreyenborg showed different filter media that can be used with Nordson Kreyenborg screen changers aiming at larger...

Lanxess: Price increas for Chloroprene Rubber

21.11.2013 - Lanxess announces a global price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene Rubber (CR) of up to 180 EUR / 245 USD per metric ton. Increasing raw material and energy prices are named as the driving force. Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts and regulations, price increases will be...

Lanxess: Expanded cresol plant on stream

18.11.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has completed the expansion of its cresol production plant in Leverkusen, Germany, and has now begun operating a newly constructed reaction system as well as a second 46-meter-high distillation column. The expansion increases capacity for this high-quality intermediate...

Indorama: Workington PET Facility to Moth-ball Production

14.11.2013 - Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has reached a decision to suspend production for up to one to two years at its Indorama Polymers Workington site in the United Kingdom as margin performance continues to decline. While the Company consulted closely with all management and employees at...

Bericap opens Sales Office in Ukraine

11.11.2013 - To meet market demand and shorten response times for customers, Bericap has opened a sales office in Ukraine. For several years Bericap has serviced its Ukrainian customers directly from Russia. Growing demand and its desire to be close to the customer in order to shorten response times and enhance...

ELIX Polymers appoints Mito Polimeri as Distributor for Lombardy region

08.11.2013 - ELIX Polymers and the distributor Mito Polimeri Srl have signed a strategic agreement that provides, as of the 1st of January 2014, the extension of distribution activities for the ELIX ABS brand to the Lombardy region improving the coverage of the distribution of ABS in the Italian market. The agreement...

Krahn Chemie: Distribution of Sinopec styrene block copolymer in Europe

05.11.2013 - Krahn Chemie and Sinopec Europa Handels GmbH have agreed to work together to distribute styrene butadiene styrene (SBS), styrene ethylene butadiene styrene (SEBS), and styrene isoprene styrene (SIS). According to this Krahn Chemie will distribute Sinopec styrene block copolymer in Europe. The two...

Starlinger: Full order books at K 2013

05.11.2013 - Starlinger & Co. GmbH concluded important sales projects in the course of the trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Starlinger Open House, which was held around the same time in Weissenbach, Austria. "The visitor quality during this year’s K exhibition was extraordinarily high", says Starlinger...

Husky to acquire leading medical and closure mold maker Schöttli

04.11.2013 - Husky Injection Molding Systems announced at the end of last week it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Schöttli Group of Diessenhofen, Switzerland, recognized as a global leader in medical and closure mold making. The sale is expected to close in early December. Schöttli is a global...

Huhtamaki has divested its foodservice business in Italy

04.11.2013 - Huhtamäki Oyj has divested its Italian subsidiary, Huhtamaki S.p.A., to Diesse S.r.l., a Sicily-based manufacturer of polystyrene packaging for the foodservice markets. The ownership of the company´s shares has been transferred to Diesse S.r.l. with immediate effect. The divestment includes the rigid...

Styrolution to expand local specialty styrenics production in the Americas

31.10.2013 - Styrolution announced plans to begin construction on a production line for alpha methyl styrene acrylonitrile (AMSAN) at its site in Altamira, Mexico. Styrolution uses AMSAN in its “Luran” S acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) and high-heat “Novodur” acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) products....

Invista adds 22,000-tonne compounding capacity to US plant

31.10.2013 - Invista Engineering Polymers has added 22,000 tonnes/year of additional production capacity to its US plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) for its Torzen brand of glass fibre reinforced polyamide (PA) 6.6 compounds. The additional compounding capacity started up earlier this year (2013) with a turnkey plants...

Lanxess: Price increase for NBR

31.10.2013 - The High Performance Elastomers (HPE) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS has increased its prices for NBR (nitrile-butadiene rubber) globally effective November 1, 2013. The price adjustment per metric ton for NBR is EUR 60 for specialties and EUR 100 for standard qualities. In Dollar...

Coperion improves ZSK Mc18 series compounders

30.10.2013 - More user-friendly “smart” versions of established 18mm, 26mm and 32mm screw diameter ZSK Mc18 Megacompounder, first introduced in 2010, and the 27mm and 34mm screw diameter ZSK Megavolume Plus twin-screw compounding extruders have been introduced by Coperion. With these, Coperion has improved access...

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