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LANXESS launches series of Rubber Days

30.06.2010 - German specialty chemicals company LANXESS is launching a series of international rubber conferences. The kick-off event is the rubber conference in Macau, China, on June 28 and 29, 2010. Similar conferences will then be held in Brazil and India in September and December. "In Asia and Latin America,...

LANXESS increases prices for hydrazine hydrate

29.06.2010 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is to increase prices worldwide for its hydrazine hydrate, Levoxin and dihydrazine product groups by 10 percent, effective July 1, 2010. These price increases are made necessary by the strong rise in raw material costs along with more expensive energy and logistics...

Evonik: PPA for composites

29.06.2010 - In the production of composite parts, the use of thermoplastic matrices, as opposed to conventional thermosetting matrices, leads to signifycantly reduced cycle times. For this process, Evonik Industries of Essen, Germany, now offers the polyphthalamide VESTAMID® HTplus as powder, granulate, or film....

LANXESS expands capacity of butyl rubber plant in Belgium

29.06.2010 - LANXESS will expand the production capacity of its butyl rubber plant in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, by 10 percent to meet growing global demand for regular butyl and halobutyl synthetic rubber. The company will invest EUR 20 million to increase capacity by an extra 14,000 metric tons per year. The current...

Balda: Michael Naschke appointed as new chairman of the supervisory board

29.06.2010 - Dr. Michael Naschke has been appointed as the new chairman of the supervisory board of Balda AG. The members of the supervisory board of the Frankfurt stock exchange SDax listed company voted for the attorney as its chairman at the constituent conference in Taipeh, Taiwan. Balda AG is a leading manufacturer...

DSM inaugurates new production facility for Stanyl ForTii

28.06.2010 - Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has today inaugurated its new Stanyl® ForTii™ Production Unit. As announced in May 2009, the new facility has quadrupled production capacity for Stanyl ForTii in order to meet market demand for...

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...

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