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Styron: Sale of expandable polystyrene business to Ravago

22.07.2013 - Styron Europe GmbH and Ravago S.A. announced jointly that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Styron’s Expandable Polystyrene (EPS) business will be sold to RP Compounds, a subsidiary of Ravago S.A., for an undisclosed sum. The sale includes the EPS manufacturing facility in Schkopau,...

Illig: French branch office moves to new premises

22.07.2013 - Illig France officially commenced operation of new premises in Saint-Pierre-du-Perray, conveniently situated in the southern periphery of Paris. Patrick Storck, Managing Director of the French Branch Office, and Wolfgang Illig who represented the Heilbronn parent company could welcome more than 40 long-term...

Songwon: Global price increases for Polymer Stabilizers and Specialty Antioxidants

22.07.2013 - Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd. announced to increase the global selling prices of its Polymer Stabilizers and Specialty Antioxidants products. The increase will range between 5% and 8% effective on orders received on or after August 15, 2013, or as contracts allow. According to Songwon recent cost...

Oriental Energy selects Ineos Technologies’ Innovene PP process for their new project in Ningbo, China

19.07.2013 - Ineos Technologies recently announced that it has been chosen to provide the Innovene PP process to Oriental Energy Company Limited based in Nanjing for its subsidiary, Ningbo Fuji Petrochemical Company Limited. The unit, to be built in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, will take propylene from the upstream...

Plastics Recyclers Europe warns that PET trays must be recycled separately

17.07.2013 - PET trays must have their own recycling stream. These valuable products need to be sorted separately from the PET bottle streams and recycled separately in order to ensure resource efficiency. Casper van den Dungen, Plastics Recyclers Europe PET Chairman, said that „trays and bottles are two different...

Dreyplas adds PEEK from Zhong Yan to its product portfolio

16.07.2013 - Dreyplas has taken a further step towards focusing its product portfolio on high-performance additives and polymers. The company has now taken over responsibility for the distribution on the European market of PEEK (polyether ether ketone) plastics produced by the Chinese company, Jilin Zhong Yan High...

Coperion delivers complete compounding lines to BASF site in Shanghai

05.07.2013 - Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart/Germany, is growing business at an accelerated rate at its production site in Shanghai/China, through its successful interdisciplinary collaboration between its various global sites, and they are doing this by building complete turnkey compounding lines for the production of...

Celanese: Price increases for acetyl intermediates

04.07.2013 - Celanese Corporation anounced to increase list and off-list selling prices by these amounts for the following products effective immediately, or as contracts allow. The above price increases are additive to the Acetic Acid price increase which was announced on May 15, 2013 (see below) and remains...

Mitsubishi Chemical completes acquisition of compound activities from Tessenderlo Group

01.07.2013 - Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC, Tokyo; Japan), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group (MCHC) recently announced that it has completed acquisition of compound activities from Tessenderlo Group (Brussels, Belgium), a worldwide specialty company. The acquisition comprises five production...

SO.F.TER. to open new plant in U.S. for the production of engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers

28.06.2013 - Located in Lebanon, Tennessee, SO.F.TER. U.S. will offer the U.S. market a comprehensive product range, with personalized services and strong customer focus. The SO.F.TER. GROUP, one of the world’s largest independent compounders with headquarters in Forlì, Italy, announced the construction of a...

Assocomaplast: Uncertain start to the year for Italian plastics and rubber machinery export

26.06.2013 - After a still-positive trend in January and February (in the wake of the +5.9% result at the end of 2012), the first quarter of 2013 instead closed with a downturn for Italian exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery, according the Istat figures processed by Assocomaplast (the Italian trade...

Petcore Europe: New Executive Director

26.06.2013 - Petcore Europe is the new association replacing and building on the legacy of the former Petcore (PET COntainer REcycling). It will represent and enhance the growth of the PET value chain in Europe. The membership of the association is formed by four leading industry sector European associations...

EFIBCA: Slight decrease of FIBC imports to EU in 2012

21.06.2013 - Compared to 2011, the value of FIBC imports to the EU dropped slightly by 2.3% to a total of 331.5 Mio. € in 2012. The decrease of exports to the EU affected the absolute production figures in the top 6 exporting countries. Nevertheless, Turkey consolidated its leadership as FIBC exporter to the...

Elix Polymers appoints Picoplast as additional distributor for BeNeLux

21.06.2013 - Elix Polymers, a leading European manufacturer of pre-colored ABS and ABS specialties, has signed an agreement with Picoplast BV, located in Wijnandsrade, The Netherlands, for the distribution of its ABS portfolio as of June 1st 2013 in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. This new agreement...

NGR: Britas Recycling Anlagen GmbH acquired

19.06.2013 - Effective May 22, 2013, Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH in Feldkirchen/Donau, Austria, has acquired 100% participating interest in Britas Recycling Anlagen GmbH. NGR will operate Britas as a subsidiary. Britas is known as a manufacturer and developer of filtration systems for heavily contaminated...

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