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Bayer MaterialScience cooperates with Mito polimeri for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy

24.03.2011 - Bayer MaterialScience has added the distributor Mito polimeri s.r.l. to its list partners for the sale of its high-performance plastics in Italy. The company has assumed the distribution activities previously performed by Bayer MaterialScience’s long-standing partners Mercatali s.r.l. (since 1973) and...

LANXESS: Price increase for rubber chemicals

24.03.2011 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is to increase its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals supplied by the Rubber Chemicals business unit effective April 1, 2011. This is primarily in response to steeply rising raw material costs. The price increase affects almost the entire product range of antioxidants...

Songwon announces global price increases for its range of Thioester Antioxidants

23.03.2011 - Songwon Industrial, a leading developer and manufacturer of polymer additives, will increase global prices for its range of Songnox® Thioester Antioxidants - Songnox® DSTDP, Songnox® DLTDP, and Songnox® DTDTP. The increases will range between 10 to 25% effective on orders received on or after March...

BASF: New Wind Turbines made from Luran S Styrenic Resin

23.03.2011 - The Dutch company EverkinetIQ International has developed in clause collaboration with Pekago, Albis and BASF its first small wind turbine in the PIQO Series with the aid of Luran® S KR 2858 G3, an ASA resin from BASF. The new product is intended to provide locally generated energy on industrial...

Evonik: Price increase for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations

23.03.2011 - Evonik Carbon Black GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for Carbon Black and Carbon Black Preparations by up to 200 €/MT for deliveries to locations in Europe and ROW. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after April 1, 2011. Evonik Carbon...

DuPont: Price Increases in Europe, Middle East and Africa for all Ethylene Copolymer Resins

22.03.2011 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, a price increase of up to 15%, depending on the grade, on all grades of DuPont Ethylene Copolymer resins. This action is in addition to the previously communicated January 1, 2011 increases and will take effect...

FKuR: New transparent and flexible biopolymer for blown film extrusion

21.03.2011 - FKuR has launched a new transparent, flexible biopolymer. Called Bio-Flex® F 2201 CL this material contains a high content of renewable resources and, in line with the other resins in the Bio-Flex® family, can be processed easily on standard LDPE blown film lines and converting equipment. With a...

Altuglas International: Price increases for PMMA acrylic resins

21.03.2011 - Altuglas International will increase prices from +150 to +200 Euros per metric ton of its PMMA resins product range marketed under the Altuglas® trademark. This price increase will be implemented to all shipments from April 1st 2011 in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The price revision is...

BASF raises prices of propionic acid in Europe and Asia

21.03.2011 - Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for propionic acid in Europe by 200 Euro per ton and in Asia by 200 US-Dollars per ton. BASF claims itself as a leading supplier of propionic acid with production facilities at its Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany,...

Coca-Cola Enterprises joint venture set to step change plastics recycling in GB

21.03.2011 - CCE invests £5m in new plant to more than double GB production of food-grade recycled PET. Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) recently announced a joint venture with ECO Plastics to develop a new purpose-built recycling facility in Lincolnshire. The deal marks a step change in the GB plastic reprocessing...

Ticona Increases Prices in Europe, Middle East and Africa

17.03.2011 - Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is increasing prices for: • Polyester products (Celanex® PBT, Vandar® PBT, Impet® PET and Riteflex® TPC-ET) € 0.15/kg, or higher on selected products. This increase takes effect on customer shipments beginning April 4th, 2011, or...

Borealis: Pioneering polypropylene solutions for automotive engineering

16.03.2011 - Pioneering developments in high performance polypropylenes (PP) under the bonnet and on the vehicle exterior take centre stage on Borealis and Borouge will present at conference “Plastics in Automotive Engineering”. Exhibited will the glass-reinforced PP air intake manifold (AIM) now fitted to all 1.4...

Oxea: Price Increases for Amines, Polyoles and Carboxylic Acids

16.03.2011 - Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the products below effective April 1, 2011, or as contracts allow.

Bayer MaterialScience to invest Euro 100 million in Germany

14.03.2011 - MDI plant Brunsbüttel: rise of production capacity to 420,000 metric tons a year Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest roughly €100 million in the expansion of the high-tech production plant for MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) at the Bayer Brunsbüttel Industrial Park in Germany. The project is...

LANXESS to expand global production network for high-tech plastics

10.03.2011 - LANXESS is expanding its global production network for high-tech plastics. The specialty chemical company broke ground today on a new compounding facility in the United States. Additionally, LANXESS and U.S. chemical company DuPont will double the capacity of their joint compounding facility in Hamm-Uentrop,...

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