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Solvay and Arkema to untie Vinyls production joint ventures in France and Spain

28.06.2010 - Solvay recently announces that SolVin and Arkema have decided to each buy back the minority cross-holdings in the vinyls production joint ventures that are operated by them. The companies in question are VinylFos, in which SolVin has a stake of 21%, VinylBerre (35%) and Vinilis (65%). These decisions...

LANXESS: Increased prices for Baypren

28.06.2010 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS has increased its prices effective July 1st for chloroprene rubber Baypren worldwide. The price adjustment per metric ton comprises up to EUR 650. This adjustment is unavoidable because the costs for raw materials...

Dr. Thiele: 6th China International Recycled Polyester Forum

24.06.2010 - 15-17 Sep 2010, Jinling Jinma Hotel Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China The 6th China International Recycled Polyester Forum is to be held during 15-17 Sep 2010. The conference is to provide valuable insights into dynamics of the polyester recycling chain from bottle and waste collection to flake processing...

Borealis calls for contestants for its 2010 Student Innovation Award for innovative research

23.06.2010 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, has launched the Borealis Student Innovation Award 2010. The Award will recognise the two most innovative research papers on olefins or polyolefin. It forms part of the company’s aim of cultivating in young people a stronger...

Balda: Concentration of Chinese production at site in Beijing

22.06.2010 - Balda AG, listed in the SDax segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, pushes the restructuring of its global business, as also presented recently at the Annual General Meeting. In future the Group concentrates mass production of plastic assemblies for the mobile phone industry in China at the Beijing...

Dow Europe: Price Increases for Polystyrene Films in Europe

22.06.2010 - Effective July 1st, 2010, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all its Polystyrene Films in Europe by 150 Euro per metric ton. These increases are driven by strong demand and continued escalation of raw material costs used to manufacture these products. Film products...

Evonik opens new production facility for P84® fibers

18.06.2010 - After a construction phase of little more than a year, the Austrian company Evonik Fibres, a subsidiary of the German Evonik Industries Group, will open its new production facility in Schörfling in a ceremony held on June 17, 2010. According to the General Manager, Dr. Herbert Griesser, the partial...

LANXESS: Increased prices for NBR

18.06.2010 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG has increased its prices effective June 15th for NBR (nitrile-butadiene rubber) in Europe. The price adjustment per metric ton comprises up to EUR 210 for NBR. This adjustment is unavoidable because the costs...

Erema: Mid-year plant start-up record in 2010 for PET recycling systems

17.06.2010 - The recycling of post-consumer PET bottles is booming in Europe. This can also be seen in a commissioning record for PET recycling systems for the company EREMA®, announced the company. This should be the first time ever in Europe that four large-scale VACUREMA Prime systems (Photo) have been handed...

Evonik: Price Increase by Carbon Black Rubber grades

16.06.2010 - The Inorganic Materials Business Unit of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black Rubber grades CORAX®, Durex®, ECORAX® & PUREX® by 130,-€/ton in Europe and neighboring countries. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after July 15, 2010. Evonik is...

Evonik: Catalysts for China from new Shanghai production facility

14.06.2010 - Essen, Germany-based Evonik Industries officially commissioned on June 9, 2010, a new manufacturing plant for precious-metal-powder catalysts in Shanghai (China). The pharmaceuticals, fine-chemicals, and industrial-chemicals sectors use the catalysts made there to manufacture products such as vitamins,...

Mold-Masters UK has moved to Hereford

11.06.2010 - Mold-Masters UK Ltd has restructured operations with the relocation of its Birmingham office into the Mold-Masters European controller manufacturing plant in Hereford. With the acquisition of leading temperature controller manufacturer PMS Systems in late 2009, Mold-Masters has laid the foundation...

DuPont: Price increase for Ethylene Copolymer product lines

11.06.2010 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing a price increase for Europe, Middle East and Africa of 0.15 €/kg for all Ethylene Copolymer product lines, including DuPont™ Bynel®, DuPont™ Elvaloy® AC, DuPont™ Elvax®, DuPont™ Nucrel®, and DuPont™ Surlyn®. This action is in addition to the previously...

BASF to sell its hydrophilic melt additives business to Techmer PM

10.06.2010 - BASF recently announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its hydrophilic melt additives business to Techmer PM, LLC, a manufacturer of colors and additives for the plastics and fiber industries located in Clinton, Tennessee, USA. The hydrophilic melt additives are currently marketed...

EuPC: President re-elected at General Assembly in Switzerland

09.06.2010 - Bernhard Borgardt has been unanimously re-elected as President of European Plastics Converters (EuPC) for two-year term beginning June 2010. Bernhard Borgardt has served as EuPC President for the past two years. Prior to his first election, he was chairman of the EuPC Packaging Division, a position...

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