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Taiwan Technology: Environmentally friendly material made of plant fibers

27.10.2009 - The patented technology, Xylotech, is a cutting-edge technique to generate a new kind of environmentally friendly material by a wide variety of plant fibers (especially fibers from farm waste). This material has been successfully used in various products like building materials, planking, pallet,...

Tokarz: Recycling of plastic waste with the use of catalytic process

26.10.2009 - T-Technology® is a fully economical and ecological recycling technology, that converts plastic (polyethylene, polypropylene and also plastic of special-purpose) waste into a high-quality component of liquid fuels or, optionally, into an oil fraction of this component. Apart from recovery of polyethylene...

Polytec: Andreas Jagl appointed as new Chief Marketing Officer

26.10.2009 - The Supervisory Board of POLYTEC HOLDING AG appointed Andreas Jagl as the new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He will start his job beginning of November 2009 and follows Mr. Karl-Heinz Solly, who will retire by the end of the year. With Andreas Jagl, an international experienced top manager will...

LANXESS: High-current circuit-breakers made of polyamide 6

26.10.2009 - Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG demonstrates that customized polyamide 6 and 66 grades are also able to meet the stringent demands made on electrical safety components by the example of a series-produced high-current circuit-breaker manufactured from Durethan DP BM 65 X FM30, a material based on...

Moretto: New partnerships with companies in Russia, the Republic of Belarus and Latvia

26.10.2009 - MORETTO S.p.A., Massanzago, Italy, one of the world´s leading manufacturers of automation equipment for the processing of plastics, has now expanded its activities to include the markets in Russia, the Republic of Belarus and in the Baltic states. This is to be viewed as a widening of objective targets,...

Petcore: European PET bottle collection increases 2008 by more than 11%

23.10.2009 - Petcore announced yesterday that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.26m tonnes in 2008, an increase of more than 11% on 2007. The overall collection rate in 2008 rose by nearly 5%, from over 41% to 46%, of all PET bottles on the market. The overall share of fibres as an end use for...

BASF: Exit from maleic anhydride production in Belgian Feluy intended by end 2009

23.10.2009 - BASF Antwerpen N.V. (www.basf.com) yesterday announced its intention to close its 115,000 annual tons maleic anhydride (MA) production facility by the end of 2009 and to withdraw all BASF activities from its site in Feluy, Belgium. 133 employees impacted BASF employs 133 people at the Feluy site,...

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...

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