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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...

Dow: Price Increase for Polycarbonate, Polycarbonate Compounds and Polycarbonate Blends

15.06.2009 - Effective June 24, 2009, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) will increase prices for its Polycarbonate, Polycarbonate Compounds and Polycarbonate Blends by 200 Euro per metric ton across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions. Dow’s energy and raw material...

BASF to close the Styropor plant and further adjust its production services at its Tarragona site

15.06.2009 - BASF (www.basf.com) will shut down the Styropor® plant (EPS, expandable polystyrene) at its site in Tarragona, Spain. The closure is scheduled for August 2009. As a direct consequence of the plant closure and due to the current downturn in BASF´s key markets in Spain, the company will also adjust the...

Dr. Thiele: 5th China International Recycled Polyester Forum

15.06.2009 - Shanghai, China, 2.-4.9.2009 The fifth China Recycled Polyester Forum is to be held during 2-4 September in Shanghai. The conference provides invaluable insights into the dynamics of the polyester recycling chain in China, an industry which is increasingly influential throughout the world. Therefore...

Krahn Chemie expands its range of rubber chemicals

12.06.2009 - The Hamburg distributor KRAHN CHEMIE (www.krahn.de), looking back this year on 100 years of supplying to the rubber processing industry, is now offering rubber chemicals from NOCIL, the largest Indian manufacturer. NOCIL emerged from the former company Monsanto and offers the processing industry an...

Solvin: Coming soon – InnoVinyls 2009, Solvin’s Innovations Award

12.06.2009 - Solvin (www.solvinpvc.com) awards prizes for innovative developments in PVC processing and applications once every three years. 142 projects have already been submitted for the prizes to be awarded on 17 June 2009. What had been intended originally as motivation for Solvin’s staff, has meanwhile...

Evonik Industries: Launch of the new Polytrend-Website

10.06.2009 - The Polytrend Product Line of Evonik Industries has released a completely redesigned website about liquid color systems for plastics. Under the brand of POLYTREND® Evonik provides the plastics converting market a quick and comprehensive access to the world of liquid color systems that can be used in...

Huhtamaki sells its rigid plastic consumer goods business in South America

09.06.2009 - Huhtamaki (www.huhtamaki.com) sells its rigid plastic consumer goods business in Brazil to Dixie Toga S.A. and in Argentina to American Plast S.A., both subsidiaries of Bemis Company, Inc. The annual net sales of the divested business is some EUR 60 million and it currently employs some 640 people....

Wavin update on capital structure discussions

09.06.2009 - Wavin N.V. (www.wavin.com), a leading supplier of plastic pipe systems and solutions in Europe, yesterday announced that the company has reached agreement with the coordinating banks of its lending facility (Fortis Bank Nederland, ING, Rabobank and RBS) on the outline of a comprehensive recapitalisation...

DSM and MCC to exchange polycarbonate and polyamide businesses

08.06.2009 - Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsmep.com), the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands (www.dsm.com), and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) recently announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding for DSM to acquire MCC’s Novamid® polyamide business...

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