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EPRO: Plastic packaging recycling in 2008 rose to 29%, despite crisis

20.11.2009 - EU27+2 recycled 29% of all its plastics packaging in 2008, easily surpassing the EU´s target of 22.5%, says the annual report Compelling Facts about Plastics. This report has been produced in partnership between PlasticsEurope, EuPC, EuPR and EPRO. The recycling rate was up from 28% in 2007 even though...

Starlinger: Change in Management

20.11.2009 - At Starlinger & Co. Gesellschaft m.b.H., world market leader in the field of flexible woven plastic packaging and PET recycling and refinement, a change in management has taken place. Richard Müssler has decided for personal reasons to resign from the company’s management. Sven Wolf (Photo), whose career...

Dow Europe GmbH announces price increase for polyethylene resins

20.11.2009 - Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase for polyethylene (PE) resins across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions, in an effort to recover its margins. Effective December 1, 2009, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase prices for all grades of its low-density...

Ultrapolymers: Extended Purell Portfolio allows tailor-made solutions for pharmacy and healthcare products

19.11.2009 - Ultrapolymers continues to extend its portfolio of LyondellBasell’s Purell PE, PP and metocene PP grades, which are tailored to pharmacy and healthcare applications. This step underlines the plastics distributor’s commitment to its role as an experienced and reliable provider of top quality raw materials...

Klöckner Pentaplast: Pentacard rigid gold and silver vinyl core films now available

19.11.2009 - The extensive Pentacard® film product line has been extended to include the Pentacard® CC-M146/19 solid gold and silver films for secure and non-secure card applications. With these new Pentacard® films, Klöckner Pentaplast offers the unique alternative of a solid middle layer that matches the gold...

Bayer MaterialScience invests in high-tech products for medical technology

18.11.2009 - Bayer MaterialScience has entered into an agreement to acquire PolyBioMed Ltd. based in Sheffield, United Kingdom, thereby expanding its product portfolio for medical technology. PolyBioMed, a subsidiary of Lombard Medical Technologies plc, provides polymer coatings, surface treatments and biomaterials...

AkzoNobel to acquire Dow powder coatings activities

18.11.2009 - AkzoNobel is to enhance its portfolio of sustainable technologies after signing an agreement with The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) to acquire its powder coatings activities. Financial details were not disclosed. The deal will bring key technological know-how and significant synergy potential to AkzoNobel’s...

BASF: New brand „Polyurethane Solutions”

17.11.2009 - The BASF brand is about to become more visible now for BASF´s polyurethane customers all over the world. With the launch of the new Polyurethane Solutions brand and associated harmonization of branding across European affiliates, BASF showcases the benefits of the global Verbund for PU customers: Polyurethane...

MTI ECO-line makes dryblend production eminently economical

17.11.2009 - The heating-/cooling-mixer-combinations of the latest MTI ECO-line (Photo) from MTI Mischtechnik International GmbH combine high mixing performance with minimal energy consumption at an attractive price, supporting the plastics processing and chemical industries’ efforts to minimize manufacturing costs...

BASF: New biodegradable plastic for special packaging

13.11.2009 - BASF is now offering a new biodegradable plastic. It goes by the name Ecovio® FS and it has joined the existing Ecovio product line. BASF has optimized this new plastic for two specific applications: for coating paper and for manufactur­ing so-called shrink films, which serve to easily wrap packaged...

DuPont: SHL’s Precision Pen Injector (PPI) uses Delrin® for key components

13.11.2009 - The PPI, an award-winning, next-generation injector from Scandinavian Health Ltd (SHL) uses key components made of DuPont™ Delrin® acetal resin. This material was selected for its strength, stiffness and low wear/low friction performance. The Precision Pen Injector (PPI) is designed to deliver small...

IKV: AKV Innovation Prize 2009 – „Gap impregnation process for the high-volume production of FRP parts”

12.11.2009 - AKV Innovation Prize 2009 in the Academic Category Kai Fischer of the IKV Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University has won the AVK Innovation Award 2009 in the Academic Category. During the annual AVK conference in Stuttgart, he was awarded the prize for his investigations into the...

Mann+Hummel ProTec: Service package for injection moulders expanded with new developments

11.11.2009 - MANN+HUMMEL ProTec is continually expanding its range of SOMOS® standard line equipment for the conveying, drying and dosing of free flowing plastics. The new additions include a range of versatile granulators (Photo), a new batch dosing and mixing system for treating multi-component mixtures and a...

plast alger 2010: International Trade Fair for the Plastics and Chemical Industry in Algeria

10.11.2009 - plast alger 2010 is North Africa’s major international platform for the plastics and chemical industry. The event is organised by the trade fair specialist fairtrade from Heidelberg, Germany. In 2009, fairtrade successfully organized plast expo 09 in Casablanca, Morocco. The 3rd International Plastics...

Bayer MaterialScience increases capacity in China for aliphatic coatings raw materials

09.11.2009 - Bayer MaterialScience, one of the world´s leading producers of high-performance plastics has announced a capacity expansion of Desmodur® N aliphatic coatings raw materials at the Bayer integrated site in Caojing, near Shanghai in China. The plant has increased the capacity of Desmodur® N to 27,000...

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