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Altana: Annual General Meeting passes 'squeeze out' resolution

02.07.2010 - At the company’s Annual General Meeting in Duisburg the shareholders of the specialty chemicals Group ALTANA AG have approved the transfer of the remaining shares to the company’s main shareholder SKion GmbH. As of February 2, 2010, SKion holds 95.04 percent of the shares in ALTANA. Once the so called...

LANXESS: Expansion of plasticizer production in Uerdingen

02.07.2010 - Specialty chemicals group LANXESS is expanding the capacity for its premium products in the Mesamoll range, amid growing demand for these phthalate-free plasticizers. A mid-single-digit amount in million euros is being invested in expanding production facilities in Krefeld-Uerdingen by 40 percent. As...

Borealis: Long-term commitment to production site in Porvoo/Finnland

01.07.2010 - Borealis is going to strengthen its long-term commitment to the production site in Porvoo, Finland by a 10 year contract with Neste Oil to supply feedstock and further investment in the site’s innovation capabilities. As Borealis announces the contract with Neste Oil covers all feedstock and product...

Mold-Masters: Hotset licenses heater technology

30.06.2010 - As part of their ongoing co-operation, Mold-Masters has licensed Hotset US Patent 7,377,768 for use in their products. This patent allows Hotset to continue to market their products containing integrated heater element and thermocouple circuits in a removable heater sleeve. Terms of the license agreement...

Arburg: New structure in Austria

30.06.2010 - Since June this year, Arburg has been represented by a fully-owned organisation in the Austrian market. The headquarters is located in Vienna, but the sales and service personnel work in the field. They thus not only have direct contact to their respective customers in the Alpine republic, but are also...

LANXESS launches series of Rubber Days

30.06.2010 - German specialty chemicals company LANXESS is launching a series of international rubber conferences. The kick-off event is the rubber conference in Macau, China, on June 28 and 29, 2010. Similar conferences will then be held in Brazil and India in September and December. "In Asia and Latin America,...

LANXESS increases prices for hydrazine hydrate

29.06.2010 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is to increase prices worldwide for its hydrazine hydrate, Levoxin and dihydrazine product groups by 10 percent, effective July 1, 2010. These price increases are made necessary by the strong rise in raw material costs along with more expensive energy and logistics...

Evonik: PPA for composites

29.06.2010 - In the production of composite parts, the use of thermoplastic matrices, as opposed to conventional thermosetting matrices, leads to signifycantly reduced cycle times. For this process, Evonik Industries of Essen, Germany, now offers the polyphthalamide VESTAMID® HTplus as powder, granulate, or film....

LANXESS expands capacity of butyl rubber plant in Belgium

29.06.2010 - LANXESS will expand the production capacity of its butyl rubber plant in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, by 10 percent to meet growing global demand for regular butyl and halobutyl synthetic rubber. The company will invest EUR 20 million to increase capacity by an extra 14,000 metric tons per year. The current...

Balda: Michael Naschke appointed as new chairman of the supervisory board

29.06.2010 - Dr. Michael Naschke has been appointed as the new chairman of the supervisory board of Balda AG. The members of the supervisory board of the Frankfurt stock exchange SDax listed company voted for the attorney as its chairman at the constituent conference in Taipeh, Taiwan. Balda AG is a leading manufacturer...

DSM inaugurates new production facility for Stanyl ForTii

28.06.2010 - Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has today inaugurated its new Stanyl® ForTii™ Production Unit. As announced in May 2009, the new facility has quadrupled production capacity for Stanyl ForTii in order to meet market demand for...

Solvay and Arkema to untie Vinyls production joint ventures in France and Spain

28.06.2010 - Solvay recently announces that SolVin and Arkema have decided to each buy back the minority cross-holdings in the vinyls production joint ventures that are operated by them. The companies in question are VinylFos, in which SolVin has a stake of 21%, VinylBerre (35%) and Vinilis (65%). These decisions...

LANXESS: Increased prices for Baypren

28.06.2010 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS has increased its prices effective July 1st for chloroprene rubber Baypren worldwide. The price adjustment per metric ton comprises up to EUR 650. This adjustment is unavoidable because the costs for raw materials...

Dr. Thiele: 6th China International Recycled Polyester Forum

24.06.2010 - 15-17 Sep 2010, Jinling Jinma Hotel Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China The 6th China International Recycled Polyester Forum is to be held during 15-17 Sep 2010. The conference is to provide valuable insights into dynamics of the polyester recycling chain from bottle and waste collection to flake processing...

Borealis calls for contestants for its 2010 Student Innovation Award for innovative research

23.06.2010 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, has launched the Borealis Student Innovation Award 2010. The Award will recognise the two most innovative research papers on olefins or polyolefin. It forms part of the company’s aim of cultivating in young people a stronger...

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