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Altuglas International: New Price Increase for Altuglas® Cast Sanitary Range

03.12.2010 - Altuglas International announced yesterday a new price increase of 350 €/ton on its Altuglas® Cast Acrylic Sheets Sanitary range for all deliveries in Europe, Middle East and Africa as of January 1st 2011. Tightness in availability of raw materials has driven to massive pricing escalation during...

SABIC: State-of-the-art polyolefin logistics centre reinforces SABIC’s long-term commitment to serving its UK customers

03.12.2010 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, officially opened – 22nd of November – its state-of-the-art polyolefin logistics centre in north-east England, which is replacing SABIC’s current logistics centre in the UK. Located in Middlesbrough, Cleveland,...

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag: With Showrann towards the Near and Middle East

01.12.2010 - Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH of Schwaig, Germany, is about to even further expand its distribution and service networks. Since the merger of the two companies of Sumitomo Heavy Industries and Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, the marketing organizations in Asia, Europe, North America and South America...

Purac develops a PLA compound with engineering plastics properties

01.12.2010 - Purac has developed a PLA compound with heat stability and impact strength comparable to ABS. This material utilizes stereo-complex technology which is based on Purac’s L-Lactide and D-Lactide monomers for the second generation PLA. The new PLA compound performs at a comparable level to ABS in injection...

Styron Europe: Price increase for PC, compounds and blends

01.12.2010 - Effective December 10, 2010, 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 275 Euro per metric ton. These price increases...

Bluestar Silicones: Price increase for most of silicone product range

01.12.2010 - Due to continuous rising costs of raw materials since mid 2010 Bluestar Silicones will raise its Silicone product range prices by 5 to 10 % in the course of January 2011. Established in 2007 through the acquisition of Rhodia Silicones by China National BlueStar Corporation, Bluestar Silicones is...

BASF: Price increase for butanediol and its derivatives in Europe

30.11.2010 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products: • 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) +120 EUR/mt • Tetrahydrofuran (THF) +120 EUR/mt • Polytetramethylene ether glycol (PolyTHF®) for non-fiber applications +120 EUR/mt • N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone...

BASF and INEOS to establish a new leading global styrenics company called Styrolution

30.11.2010 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and INEOS Industries Holdings Limited (Lyndhurst, UK) have announced their intention to combine their global business activities in styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), styrene-butadiene block copolymers (SBC) and other styrene-based...

INEOS Films becomes Bilcare Research as of 1st December 2010

30.11.2010 - INEOS Films Group announced yesterday the completion of its legal name change. With effect of 1st December 2010 INEOS Films will become Bilcare Research. “The existing portfolios of Bilcare Films and Foils and INEOS Films will be merged into the new group, which will become a full range solution...

EPRO: TEFAL wins „Best Recycled Product” for 2010 with Enjoy Kitchen Tools

30.11.2010 - EPRO (European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations) has awarded Enjoy Kitchen Tools, manufactured by TEFAL - SAS, France as this years winner. Following the success of the first Best Recycled Product Competition in 2009, earlier this year, EPRO invited the plastics industry...

BASF increases prices for certain polyalcohols in Europe

29.11.2010 - BASF is increasing the prices of the polyalcohols neopentylglycol (NPG), trimethylolpropane (TMP), 1,6-hexanediol (HDO), epsilon-caprolactone (CLO), with immediate effect or as existing contracts permit in Europe. • Neopentylglycol (NPG): +100 EUR/mt • Trimethylolpropane (TMP): +100 EUR/mt • 1,6-Hexanediol...

Arburg: Senior partner Karl Hehl dies

29.11.2010 - On the evening of 24 November 2010, Karl Hehl, senior partner at Arburg GmbH + Co KG, died unexpectedly at the age of 87. Until recently he played an active role as an advisory partner, making a significant contribution to the family-run company. He used his ingenuity and foresight to make Arburg a...

FORD to use TPU from Merquinsa

29.11.2010 - Merquinsa, specialized in TPU, announced that Ford Motor Company, Inc. has chosen to collaborate with Merquinsa and its Pearlthane® ECO thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) for an automotive industry first in its use of bio-based thermoplastic polyurethanes. The Lincoln MKZ tambour console tambour door...

DSM Engineering Plastics + K.D. Feddersen: Distribution Agrrement to strengthen presence in Danish Marketplace

24.11.2010 - DSM Engineering Plastics and K.D. Feddersen have entered into a distribution agreement, to join forces in the market development and sales of DSM Engineering Plastics resins in Denmark. The move is designed to strengthen the position of DSM Engineering Plastics in the Danish market, where the company...

Netzsch-Gerätebau: Thermal Properties of Polymer Materials at a Glance

24.11.2010 - In the manufacturing and processing of thermoplastics, elastomers, rubbers and thermosetting materials, knowledge of their thermal properties is very important. Various thermal analysis methods are employed by manufacturers, processors and users in areas such as materials development, incoming goods...

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