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DuPont Engineering Polymers announces price increases

22.10.2009 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announced global price increases for its standard grades of DuPont™ Zytel® nylon, DuPont™ Minlon® mineral reinforced nylon and DuPont™ Zytel® HTN high-performance polyamide. Prices in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will increase 0.25 Euro/kg effective...

Evonik: New reinforcing filler for mechanical rubber goods

20.10.2009 - Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) offers two high performance blacks for the production of mechanical rubber goods which satisfy special requirements concerning PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) content. With their low PAH values, the carbon blacks DUREX® 0 and PUREX® 45-RP comply with Recommendation...

Arburg: Energy-Efficiency-Award 2009 presented to Tyco Electronics

19.10.2009 - The Arburg Energy Efficiency Award was presented on the evening of the first day of the FAKUMA 2009. This year, the award for special efforts in the area of energy efficiency went to Tyco Electronics (www.tycoelectronics.com) - an internationally active group of companies that is among the world’s leading...

Semperit: New Producition Facility for Examination Gloves

16.10.2009 - The global market for disposable examination gloves is growing continuously. In order to satisfy the increasing demand and to pave the way for further growth, Semperit (www.semperit.at) has finalised plans to build a new production facility for this segment in Surat Thani, Thailand. The state-of-the-art...

Pallmann: Machines and systems for scrap tires recycling

16.10.2009 - The recycling of scrap tires allows for the regeneration of valuable materials such as rubber, steel and textile. The Pallmann Group (www.pallmann.eu) of Companies offers efficient and robust machines and systems for this application. Shredders, knife mills, pulverizing systems and conveying technology...

Mold-Masters: Hot Runner Specialist acqurierd Controller Manusfacturer PMS Systems

15.10.2009 - The hot-runner specialist Mold-Masters Ltd. (www.moldmasters.com) has acquired PMS Systems Ltd. The combined businesses will become one of the world´s largest hot runner controller manufacturing companies and one of the global leader in hot runner control technology. Both companies have worked together...

Bayer MaterialScience AG ends reduced working hours at German sites

12.10.2009 - Effective November 1 this year, the Bayer subgroup MaterialScience (BMS, www.bayermaterialscience.de) will be reverting to the standard collectively agreed work week of 37.5 hours at its German sites. At the beginning of February the company had introduced a reduction in working time and a corresponding...

BKG: Specialist for underwater pelletizing systems since 15 years

09.10.2009 - In recent years underwater pelletizing systems more and more squeezed classic systems like strand pelletizing systems out of the market. BKG Bruckmann & Kreyenborg Granuliertechnik GmbH (www.bkg.de) from Münster in Germany is closely associated with this development. In October 1994, when Theodor...

S+S: New separation unit for contaminated plastic granulate

09.10.2009 - S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH (www.se-so-tec.com) presents a new metal separation unit called Presep (Photo) on their stand at FAKUMA 2009. The unit can be installed on conveyors to analyse plastic granulate or as a stand-alone unit to analyse grinding stock, regenerate or rejected material....

Evonik: New plant for production of the plasticizer alcohol 2-PH

08.10.2009 - Evonik Industries AG (www.evonik.com) has expanded its product range for high-molecular-weight plasticizer alcohols and commissioned a plant for the production of the plasticizer alcohol 2-propyl heptanol (2-PH) at the Marl Chemical Park. The company’s investment in the plant, which is in the high double-digit...

ILLIG: Manufacturer of thermoforming machinery with successful Open House

08.10.2009 - ILLIG the manufacturer of thermoforming machinery and the company which provides solutions for the packing technology (www.illig.de) could welcome altogether approx. 300 participants to the Open House held on 22nd September for the German speaking experts and on 24th September for the international...

plasticker.com: Online marketplace for the plastics industry

08.10.2009 - The plasticker industry portal (www.plasticker.com) is presenting itself at the Fakuma 2009 trade show on the common stand of the ministry for trade, medium and small sized enterprises and energy of the state of North Rhine Westphalia (Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Mittelstand und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen)....

Gammaflux: Extensive software update for TTC hot runner temperature control systems

07.10.2009 - Easier troubleshooting, reduced downtimes, improved productivity Gammaflux (www.gammaflux.de), one of the world’s leading suppliers of hot runner temperature control systems, has integrated three new functions into the software of its line of TTC high-performance hot runner temperature controllers:...

Wittmann: Additional servo driven degrees of freedom even on smaller robot models

07.10.2009 - Robot model W811 with B/C-Servo - Rotations The market need for additional servo driven degrees of freedom even on smaller robot models is addressed now by WITTMANN (www.wittmann-group.com) with the introduction of the B/C servo axes for small robot models W811, as well as W821 and W831. The Servo-B-axis...

PETnology: The second PET Yearbook „connecting comPETence 2009“ published

06.10.2009 - Just like the first Yearbook, which had found wide acceptance in the market at the end of 2008, the second edition from PETnology/tecPET GmbH (www.petnology.de) contains a lot of interesting information on PET. It presents the most topical developments and gives moods and views gathered during numerous...

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