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Arburg: Ten years of Arburg Brazil

23.09.2010 - On 15 September 2010, the team at Arburg Brazil celebrated the subsidiary´s 10th anniversary in the presence of Managing Partner Renate Keinath and Managing Director Sales Helmut Heinson. "The subsidiary has developed admirably and has successfully established itself in the Brazilian injection moulding...

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Uhde Inventa-Fischer: Successful Commissioning of PET MTR® plant at Indorama AlphaPet Inc.

23.09.2010 - In September 2009, Uhde Inventa-Fischer successfully commissioned the first line of Indorama’s latest PET resin plant in Alabama (USA). The second line came on stream in June 2010. The plant has an annual capacity of 432,000 tons and uses Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s proprietary patented MTR® technology....

Altuglas International: Price increase for acrylic resins

23.09.2010 - Altuglas International announced an increase of 250 Euros per metric ton for PMMA resins marketed under the Altuglas® trademark in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This price increase will be applicable to all deliveries for the month of October. The price revision is the result of both the...

Gabriel-Chemie + RAL: RAL PLASTICS - New colour range for plastics

23.09.2010 - In time for the K 2010 in Dusseldorf in October, the RAL gGmbH is presenting a new colour range for plastics together with the Gabriel-Chemie Group. With this independent plastic standard, RAL is reacting to the versatile demands from the plastics processing industry. The Gabriel-Chemie Group...

Evonik: Michael Hirschhäuser new Vice President of Carbon Black

22.09.2010 - As of 1st of October Michael Hirschhäuser will take over the position of Vice President Sales & Global Key Account Management Tire from Mr. Stefan Immer within the Evonik Carbon Black GmbH. Mr. Immer will retire at the end of the first quarter 2011 and will support his successor during the handover...

Kreyenborg Group: From polymerisation through direct recycling to compounding

21.09.2010 - The KREYENBORG GROUP consists of KREYENBORG GmbH, BKG Bruckmann & Kreyenborg Granuliertechnik GmbH, KREYENBORG PLANT TECHNOLOGY GmbH & Co.KG and BSG Bruckmann Steuerungstechnik GmbH. With its products the KREYENBORG GROUP mainly focuses on the market of engineering plastics. With its power of innovation...

Evonik: Decision to divest the global carbon blacks business

21.09.2010 - Evonik Industries has decided to divest its carbon blacks business. Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Evonik Industries AG: “Our declared aim is to find a solution that is equally convincing for customers, employees and business partners. The decision to divest this business provides the...

ILLIG: Thermoforming Pushed to High-Performance

21.09.2010 - State-of-the-art technologies and benefits provided by system solutions for thermoforming of plastic packs in any shape or size in large quantities are core elements of ILLIG´s trade fair appearance at this year´s K trade fair. Two roll-fed thermoforming lines will be demonstrated under production conditions...

Krahn Chemie expands portfolio to include carbon fibers from Toho Tenax Europe

20.09.2010 - Distributor Krahn Chemie GmbH, based in Hamburg, will begin marketing chopped and milled carbon fibers from Toho Tenax Europe GmbH throughout Europe effective immediately. The Tenax® products feature high strength and tensile modulus at low density. The short fibers are primarily used in thermoplastic...

ICM: 11th International Automobile Recycling Congress in Budapest

17.09.2010 - After the 10th International Automobile Recycling Congress in Basel, the Swiss organizer ICM AG will move its 11th International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2011 to Budapest in Hungary. The IARC 2011 will take place from March 23 - 25, 2011 in the Hotel Intercontinental. Delegates from industry,...

Teknor Apex: Acquisition of Sarlink® TPV unit from DSM

16.09.2010 - Teknor Apex Company has agreed to purchase the worldwide Sarlink® thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) elastomer business from Royal DSM N.V., the company announced today. Sarlink operates compounding facilities in Leominster, MA, U.S.A. and Genk, Belgium and has extensive engineering and laboratory...

LANXESS: Ambitious growth target

16.09.2010 - LANXESS announced today its goal to increase its leading earnings indicator by roughly 80 percent in the coming five years. The specialty chemicals company is targeting EBITDA pre exceptionals of approximately EUR 1.4 billion in 2015 and confirmed its forecast of roughly EUR 800 million EBITDA pre exceptionals...

Coperion: Turnkey Plant for Biodegradable Plastics Compounding

16.09.2010 - The first compounding plant for biodegradable plastics in Portugal underlines the expertise of Coperion GmbH, formerly Werner & Pfleiderer, in biodegradable material processing systems. The extrusion line is being operated by the Portuguese compounding company Cabopol, S. A. based in Porto de Mós and...

Hellweg: Small lump granulator for single stage shredding of solid start-up scraps

16.09.2010 - Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is presenting at K-show 2010 a new size of a lump granulator that enables single stage shredding of even solid start-up lumps and similar items. The MG 240/260 BR, where "BR" stands in German for Brocken = lumps, has been is made in a stable welded design that guarantees...

FKuR: Innovations in Bioplastics allow for new applications

14.09.2010 - At K 2010 bioplastics‘specialist FKuR Kunststoff GmbH together with Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen, will present a broad variety of biodegradable and natural fibre reinforced materials with application specific properties which can enable mass-market penetration. During the last few months we have...

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