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Engel: Over 90 participants at 1st MuCell seminar

17.12.2010 - A seminar held at ENGEL Austria at the beginning of December had the purpose of communicating the opportunities and potential of MuCell® technology. For the first time the injection moulding machine manufacturer´s training division dedicated itself to the subject of structural foam moulding – with considerable...

BASF: €50 million as special payment to employees worldwide

16.12.2010 - BASF’s management is going to reward its employees for their "extraordinary team effort in bringing the company successfully through the crisis". The Board of Executive Directors has approved €50 million as a special payment to employees worldwide. "Through our combined efforts, we successfully brought...

Oerlikon Balzers takes over the German hartec Anlagenbau

16.12.2010 - Oerlikon Balzers will take over the hartec Group, which specializes in PVD coatings, from January 1, 2011 and thereby further expand its leading position in the global coatings market. "The acquisition of hartec, a pioneer in its field, means that we are expanding into environmentally friendly, decorative...

Borealis upgrades at Porvoo polyethylene plant support Borstar® PE product development

16.12.2010 - At yesterday’s meeting in Vienna, the Borealis Supervisory Board approved a EUR 17 million investment to upgrade one of its polyethylene plants in Porvoo, Finland. The project includes a new ethylene compressor as well as an upgrade of the monomer purification including all necessary auxiliary equipment....

Trevira: Klaus Holz to be new CEO

16.12.2010 - The start of the New Year will herald a change in leadership at the fibre manufacturer Trevira: As planned for some time, Uwe Wöhner is relinquishing his position as CEO of Trevira at the end of the year, for private reasons. The baton will be taken up by Klaus Holz, the longstanding Head of Corporate...

Erema: 38 million Euros contract volume within 12 weeks

15.12.2010 - The Upper Austrian company EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau Ges.m.b.H. looks back on a highly successful time both leading up to and at the K trade fair. The trend of a rapidly increasing volume of order intake that began before the trade fair has continued relentlessly. And the...

LANXESS increases prices for iron oxides

15.12.2010 - Subject to existing contracts, specialty chemicals group LANXESS is increasing its prices worldwide for iron oxide pigments by at least Euro 110 (or local currency equivalent) per metric ton, with immediate effect. The Inorganic Pigments business cites the continuation of elevated raw material,...

LANXESS to acquire DSM Elastomers

14.12.2010 - LANXESS and Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. have reached an agreement in principle involving the sale of DSM Elastomers to LANXESS for EUR 310 million on a cash and debt-free basis. DSM Elastomers produces the synthetic rubber ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) under the brand name Keltan. The...

Delphi presents award to Arburg Brazil for excellent co-operation

14.12.2010 - On 9 November 2010, the IXth Delphi Convention was held in São Paulo. The leading global supplier of mobile electronics and transport systems for the automotive sector bestowed the award on the Brazilian Arburg subsidiary for its role as an outstanding supplier in South America. “We are extremely...

DSM announces price increase for its complete Unsaturated Polyester/Vinyl ester resin portfolio

14.12.2010 - DSM Composite Resins, a global leader in Unsaturated Polyester Resins (UPR), is increasing the price of its complete portfolio of resins produced and sold as from January 10th 2011. Due to increased raw materials cost and higher feed stock prices, the price of DSM Composite Resins’s Unsaturated Polyester...

Brückner: New BOPP film production line for Poland

10.12.2010 - Following the K show in Düsseldorf Flexpol Sp. z.o.o., Polish plastics film producer, and Brückner Maschinenbau agreed to finalize the contract for a 6.6 m wide BOPP film production line, announced Brückner. This investment will help Flexpol to capture the challenging specialty film market. Equipped...

Mold-Masters: Hot Runner Specialist appoints William Barker as CEO

10.12.2010 - Mold-Masters®, a global leader in hot runner technology, recently announced that William (Bill) Barker has joined the company, effective December 6, 2010, as Chief Executive Officer of the Mold-Masters Group of Companies. Mr. Barker brings over 20 years of experience as a CEO/General Manager of high...

Tosaf: New, highly efficient antifog masterbatches for food packaging films

09.12.2010 - Tosaf presents newly developed, highly efficient antifog masterbatches for transparent polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP) food packaging films, announced the company. AF5979PE and AF4953LL prevent formation of water droplets on complex multilayer PE films. These masterbatches do not impact film...

VDMA: Russia an Important Market for Plastics and Rubber Machinery

09.12.2010 - German Exports to Russia during the current period (January to October 2010) only reached a value of 76.6 Mio. EUR, which is a decline in shipments of 20.7 % compared to the same period in 2009. Russia stays on third place in the list of the most important destinations for German plastics and rubber...

DSM Engineering Plastics: Global price increase for Akulon PA compounds

08.12.2010 - DSM has announced its intention to increase prices for its Akulon® PA6 and PA66 compounds. This increase, which will be effective immediately, is to offset continued escalations in the costs of key raw materials. While DSM Engineering Plastics continues to pursue and implement cost savings initiatives...

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