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Evonik: Price Increase for Carbon Black Rubber grades

07.12.2010 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black Rubber grades CORAX®, DUREX®, ECORAX® & PUREX® by 100,-€/ton in Europe and neighboring countries. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after January 1, 2011. Evonik Carbon...

Instron: New Universal Pendulum Impact Tester for Instrumented and Non-instrumented Testing

07.12.2010 - CEAST 9050 is Instron’s newly developed Universal Pendulum Impact Tester for non-instrumented and semiautomatic instrumented testing at impact energies ranging from 0.5 J to 50 J. The system´s solid monolithic cast-iron frame supports all attachments required for testing. The frame design dampens vibrations,...

Clariant: New Head of Group Communications & Investor Relations

06.12.2010 - Clariant has decided to consolidate the functions “Group Communications” and “Investor Relations” into one single department “Group Communications & Investor Relations”. Ulrich Steiner, currently Head of Investor Relations, has been appointed Head of Group Communications & Investor Relations as of January...

Clariant: Polymer Additives Business increases prices

03.12.2010 - Clariant´s Business Line Polymer Additives today announced global price increases of between 5 and 15% for its grades for plastics. The price adjustments are necessary to compensate for significant increases in raw material and transportation costs, alongside continuing high energy costs. “We...

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...

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