Latest News

LANXESS: Production of new butyl rubber facility in Singapore to start in 2014

01.07.2009 - Postponement made necessary by drop in demand Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is postponing the construction of its new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. Production is now scheduled to start in 2014. LANXESS will use the time to...

BUSS: Rigid PVC compounds with up to 100 phr fillers

01.07.2009 - Swiss manufacturer Buss AG (www.busscorp.com) has set yet another benchmark with its 4-flight quantec® Kneader. Among other advances, rigid PVC compounding with up to 100 phr fillers is now possible on this machine. The key engineering and technological innovations are: • Process zone extension...

Evonik: New, Bio-Based Polyamide on Market

30.06.2009 - Germany-based Evonik Industries AG (www.evonik.com) has added a group of bio-based polyamides to its VESTAMID® family. The polymers, sold under the VESTAMID® Terra brand name, are based on monomers produced partly or entirely from fatty acids. The most important source is currently castor oil, obtained...

plast expo 09: Moroccan plastics fair successful

30.06.2009 - plast expo 09 (2 to 5 June 2009, www.plast-expo.com) in Casablanca claims itself to be an efficient Euro-Mediterranean gateway to Africa. Due to exhibitors information this mission was accomplished with 2,058 registered trade visitors from 27 countries and 102 exhibitors from 19 countries. The 102...

LyondellBasell to increase PP prices in Europe

29.06.2009 - Effective July 1, LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) will increase prices by €125 per tonne on its polypropylene grades sold in Europe. “Escalating feedstock and energy costs have necessitated this increase,” said Yves Bonte, Senior Vice President of LyondellBasell’s Polypropylene Business.

Rapid Granulator: Acquisition of Avian Machinery in China

26.06.2009 - Rapid Granulator AB (www.rapidgranulator.se), the Swedish-based manufacturer in plastics granulation and technology, and part of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based IPEG, announced at the NPE show that it has acquired Avian Machinery, the Shanghai-based manufacturer of granulator and recycling systems....

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....

Please find more information in German.

You wish to have news about your company and your products published here?
Please send your information and press reports to info@plasticker.de or give us a call!