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Bayer MaterialScience announces price increase for thermoplastic polyurethane resins in Asia Pacific

24.11.2010 - Bayer MaterialScience has announced a price increase of USD 0.35 per kilogram on TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) resins effective December 1, 2010. The increase will affect all TPU products in the Asia Pacific region, including Desmopan®, Texin®, U-Flex® and Utechllan®, as the company explained....

LANXESS: Price adjustment for engineering plastics

24.11.2010 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is to increase its prices for Pocan in Europe, the Middle East and Africa effective December 1, 2010. The Semi-Crystalline Products business unit announced that the price increase will be at least EUR 0.20 per kg for Pocan Compounds (Polybutylenterephthalate Compounds)....

DSM announces price increase for Neoxil® range of Sizing & Binders

23.11.2010 - DSM Composite Resins, a global leader in Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPR), is increasing the price of its complete range of Neoxil® Sizings & Binders by 15% with effect of January 1, 2011. “The continuous rise of raw material costs, energy and transportation costs in the last two years in combination...

Bayer MaterialScience develops raw materials for wound dressings

23.11.2010 - Baymedix™ FR is a new range of raw materials for functional medical wound dressings developed by Bayer MaterialScience that not only help wounds to heal but also make innovative designs possible. The dressings are based on polyurethane foams with a specific combination of properties and can be combined...

Dow: Price Increase for Polyethylene Resins

22.11.2010 - Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase for polyethylene (PE) resins across the European, Middle Eastern, and African regions. Effective December 1, 2010, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all grades of its low-density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low-density...

Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG presents GK LIPfibre mould technology

19.11.2010 - Lightweight design, the future technology: Enormous response from automotive and aviation industries At the K 2010, Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG, Busslingen/Switzerland, made the public début of its newly developed moulding technology GK LIPfibre (Georg Kaufmann Lightweight Integrated Process fibre)....

DSM - DYO Manufacturing Collaboration for Unsaturated Polyesters in Turkey takes off

19.11.2010 - DSM announced recently to have acquired via its subsidiary - Euroresins Turkey, the Unsaturated Polyester (UP) resins business of Dyo Boya Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Tic. A.S. (DYO). As of October 5th 2010, (DYO) has officially transferred its UP resin business to Euroresins Kompozit Ürünler Tic. Ltd....

Engel: Prof. Steinbichler recipient of Dr Richard Escales Prize 2010

18.11.2010 - Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Georg Steinbichler, Head of Research & Development at ENGEL Austria, was awarded the Dr Richard Escales Prize 2010 at the K-Fair in Düsseldorf for his outstanding contribution to the dialogue between research and industrial practice in plastics technology. In his congratulatory...

VDMA: The Middle East an Important Market for Plastics and Rubber Machines

18.11.2010 - In 2009 German exports of plastics and rubber machines to the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) reached a value of 110 Mio. Euro. Compared to the previous year, they went down by 32.7 %. The decline in export volume is a consequence of the worldwide economic crisis in 2009. The...

Weima: Successful presentation of the new Spider shredder

18.11.2010 - WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH has presented its newly developed Spider modular shredder system for the first time at the K 2010 fair in Düsseldorf. The machinery producing company has been able to already conclude sales for the new shredder directly at the fair, as well as for other proven products. ...

ifo: Further Fall in the Ifo World Economic Climate Indicator

17.11.2010 - The Ifo World Economic Climate clouded over in the fourth quarter of 2010 for the second time in succession. However, the indicator is still above its long-term average. The slight decline in the world economic indicator is solely attributable to the weakening of expectations for the coming six months....

Gurit wins first big PET core supply contract for China

15.11.2010 - Gurit, a worldwide leading developer and producer of advanced composite materials and technologies has won an important contract for PET core materials in China. The contract is worth a medium single-digit CHF million amount. Starting in 2011, the core material will be produced locally in China where...

Bayer MaterialScience raises prices for aliphatic isocyanates

12.11.2010 - Bayer MaterialScience AG is raising its selling prices for aliphatic isocyanates in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region by 8 percent, effective 1 December, 2010. This price increase affects the monomeric diisocyanates HDI (hexamethylene diisocyanate), IPDI (isophorone diisocyanate) and...

LyondellBasell: Management Changes for Olefins & Polyolefins

11.11.2010 - LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) recently announced that Bhavesh V. (Bob) Patel has been named senior vice president, Olefins & Polyolefins – Europe, Asia and International (EAI), with additional responsibilities for licensing and catalyst sales, effective immediately. Patel will succeed Anton de Vries who...

LANXESS: New flame-retardant polyamide 66 for consumer electronics

11.11.2010 - Free of halogens and red phosphorus The polyamide 66 Durethan DP AKV 30 FN00 from specialty chemicals group LANXESS is proving extremely successful as a material for flame-retardant components in consumer electronics in Asian markets. One reason is that many equipment manufacturers in the industry...

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