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Krahn Chemie: European distributor for Premier Chemicals

22.01.2010 - Starting immediately, Hamburg-based distributor Krahn Chemie will be in charge of the European marketing of the magnesium oxides produced by US manufacturer Premier Chemicals. These products are an excellent addition to Krahn´s current rubber product range, which includes the special elastomers CR,...

K.D. Feddersen: New polypropylene for high quality surfaces

22.01.2010 - Softell, a new polypropylene (PP) from LyondellBasell Industries, allows high-quality surfaces to be produced without additional coating or painting. This product already has numerous applications, particularly in the automotive industry for vehicle interior trim. In this case, there is a focus...

LANXESS brings forward new rubber facility project in Singapore

21.01.2010 - The world’s leading synthetic rubber company LANXESS has brought forward its plans to build a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. The company will hold a groundbreaking ceremony in May, 2010, and production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2013. The 100,000 tons per annum plant on Jurong...

Borealis increases polyethylene and polypropylene prices

21.01.2010 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, announces that it will increase all polyethylene and polypropylene prices by EUR 100/tonne as of January 25, 2010. “We have decided on this price increase to restore our margins and stay in line with our innovation strategy,”...

DSM acquires full ownership of NPC PA6 polymer facility

20.01.2010 - Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, and Shaw Industries Group, Inc. announced recently that DSM has acquired full control of the PA6 polymerization facility of Nylon Polymer Company LLC (NPC) in Augusta (Georgia, United States). Shaw...

Balda: Share price development wit brilliant comeback 2009

19.01.2010 - By returning to profitability and securing its funding in the fall of 2009, Balda AG has pulled off a brilliant performance in its share price development. The shares of the mobile phone supplier, listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, opened in 2009 at a price of 0.52 euros....

Coperion: Successful high-capacity compounding of polyolefins

19.01.2010 - New underwater pelletizing system for PP; two-stage ZSK NT for bimodal HDPE With several recently supplied and installed high-capacity compounding lines, both the latest UG underwater pelletizing systems from Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart/Germany, and this company’s concept of two-stage PE compounding...

Engel: New CEO for ENGEL North America

19.01.2010 - Beginning in April 2010 Mark Sankovitch (53, Photo) will be appointed CEO of ENGEL North America. He follows Steve Braig, who will leave the company until the end of March 2010. Mark Sankovitch has a 20-year experience with ENGEL and recently he was Regional Sales Manager in Chicago. Mark Sankovitch...

ICM: Swiss Cowbell Award 2010 to the „Father of the European WEEE Directive”

18.01.2010 - Swiss congress organiser ICM AG will stage its 9th International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC 2010) from 20-22 January 2010 in the Salzburg Congress Center in Austria. 400 delegates from industry, authorities, academia and NGOs will be present to discuss the latest information and challenges...

Henry Bath: Reduction in rents for LME Plastics Warehouse Storage

15.01.2010 - Henry Bath, the London Metal Exchange ("LME") licensed warehouse operator, has announced a large reduction in its maximum published rents for the storage of plastics held on LME Warrant, effective 5 January 2010. Storage rents for Polypropylene (PP) and Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LL) are being...

Adval Tech awarded large order from BMW

15.01.2010 - The Adval Tech Group has received a large order from BMW for the new generation of its Series 1 and 3 models. Adval Tech commenced joint product and process development with BMW in August 2009. The group will manufacture twelve components for the air/water separation systems in production runs of millions....

EuroMold 2010: Partner country Turkey is a growing market with great opportunities for Moldmaking and Tooling

14.01.2010 - Having Turkey as a partner country, EuroMold 2010 dedicates itself to a rapidly emerging economy that occupies the fields of automotive engineering & electronics in particular. Hence exist the enormous opportunities for Moldmaking and Tooling. The central position between Asia, Gulf States and Europe...

BASF: High-performance resin with improved friction characteristics

14.01.2010 - Compared to all previous versions in BASF’s high performance resin range, Ultrason® KR 4113, a representative of the polyethersulfone product line (PESU), offers hitherto unique friction characteristics. This feature is achieved by incorporating carbon fibers, graphite and PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene)....

Klöckner Pentaplast: New PET capacity at Crumlin site

13.01.2010 - The Klöckner Pentaplast Group, the largest European producer of rigid PET films, is pleased to announce that its new PET production capacity has commenced operation at the company’s Crumlin, UK, manufacturing facility. The new line produces high-performance polyester films for food and consumer packaging...

Bayer MaterialScience: License agreement with floorwear specialist kymo

13.01.2010 - Based on polyurethane foams and a special textile fabric Bayer MaterialScience has developed a viscoelastic carpet (Photo). Walking across this carpet feels like walking over soft moss. “The foam is designed not to be fully compressed underfoot, but only to a certain depth. Since the underfoot area...

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