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LANXESS increases prices for basic chemicals

26.06.2009 - The Basic Chemicals business unit of specialty chemicals company LANXESS (www.lanxess.com) is increasing its prices worldwide for its entire product portfolio by a minimum of seven per cent with immediate effect. The primary factors behind this measure are higher raw material and energy expenses. Torsten...

BASF to reduce polystyrene capacity in Europe by about 15 percent

26.06.2009 - Effective June 30, 2009, BASF (www.basf.com) will close one polystyrene plant at the Ludwigshafen site. This will reduce BASF’s annual production capacity for the standard plastic polystyrene in Europe by 80,000 to 540,000 metric tons, what comes up to a capacity reduction of about 15 percent. Personnel...

LyondellBasell to increase PE prices in Europe

25.06.2009 - Effective July 1, LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) will increase prices in Europe by €120 per tonne on all of its polyethylene grades. "Escalating feedstock costs have made this price increase necessary," said Tassilo Bader, senior vice president for LyondellBasell’s olefins and...

Erema: French Recycling specialist for high throughputs

25.06.2009 - After the first Erema TVE recycling system Erema (www.erema.at) he purchased in 2006, Jean-Paul Dumond has now doubled his production capacity with Erema technology. Based in Saint-Romain-Lachalm in the Auvergne region of France, the recycler has commissioned a second large-scale facility with the same...

Krones: 1000 packer machines in 10 years

24.06.2009 - In September 2009, Krones AG (www.krones.com) will be delivering its thousandth Variopac packer (Photo). Flexible, product-specific, customised packing, grouping containers in a wide choice of sales packs, responsively geared to the market´s requirements and wherever possible with just one single machine:...

DuPont: 21st Award for Packaging Innovation

24.06.2009 - In announcing today’s winners in the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, DuPont (www.dupont.com) reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability and sustainable packaging. The winners were honoured in a global on-line event including exchanges on key sustainability topics in the packaging industry...

ICE Europe 2009: Growth for International Converting Exhibition

22.06.2009 - Positive news comes from ICE Europe’s (www.ice-x.com) new organisers, Mack Brooks Exhibitions (www.mackbrooks.com): Europe’s leading exhibition for paper, film and foil converting, which will take place from 24-26 November 2009 in the M,O,C, Munich, Germany, is - with 300 exhibitors from 17 countries...

Uhde Inventa-Fischer: New PET Project for SABIC in Saudi Arabia

19.06.2009 - Uhde Inventa-Fischer (www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the complete basic engineering of the 2nd PET Resin expansion of its manufacturing affiliate, Arabian Industrial Fiber Company (Ibn...

Gerresheimer Wilden: New cuvette production in Küssnacht with high-performance machines

18.06.2009 - At its Küssnacht facility in Switzerland, Gerresheimer Wilden (www.gerresheimer-wilden.com) manufactures cuvettes for a leading diagnostics specialist. These optical components for use in photometric laboratory tests are required to meet very exacting quality standards and on-time delivery is imperative....

Wittmann Battenfeld: Injection molding machine for South German Plastics Center

18.06.2009 - The SKZ Süddeutsches Kunststoff-Zentrum (South German Plastics Center, www.skz.de) recently received another injection molding machine from Wittmann Battenfeld (www.wittmann-battenfeld.com). The 2,000 m² technical lab of this German plastics center is now equipped with a total of four injection molding...

DuPont: Flue gas coolers with AlWaFlon® pressure hoses based on Teflon® PTFE maximize power plant efficiency

18.06.2009 - A new 858 MW-rated generating unit is being built at the site of Europe’s largest lignite-fired power station in Belchatów, Poland. Upon completion at the end of 2010, it will be one of the country’s most productive and efficient lignite-fired plants with an efficiency rating of around 42 percent, and...

Starlinger: Another PET Recycling Plant to France Plastique Recyclage

17.06.2009 - Bottle-to-bottle recycling is an industry with a future in France, says Philippe Bourdeix, president of France Plastique Recyclage (FPR) and consultant Bruno Vincent. The first recycling plant from Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. (www.recycling.starlinger.com) – a recoSTAR PET 165 iV+ and two viscoSTAR...

Coperion delivers Twin-Screw Extruders to the new DSM compounding facility in India

17.06.2009 - DSM’s new compounding facility in Ranjangeon/India, situated not far from the city of Pune, has now been equipped with ZSK MEGAcompounder PLUS compounding extruders from Coperion GmbH (www.coperion.com). Mainly serving the Indian market, this largest compounding facility in India produces the polyamide...

Bayer MaterialScience and Add-Vision sign license agreement on polymeric OLEDs

16.06.2009 - Future applications include active packaging and labels, electronic toys and games as well as point-of-sale signage Bayer MaterialScience AG (www.bayermaterialscience.com) signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Scotts Valley, California....

Uhde Inventa-Fischer: OCTAL Petrochemicals opens the world’s largest rigid PET sheet plant

16.06.2009 - OCTAL Petrochemicals has opened the world’s largest rigid PET sheet and resin plant located in the southeast port city of Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. This is the second PET facility run by the company and has a capacity of 300,000 metric tons per annum. The two new lines use the Melt-To-Resin MTR® technology...

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