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K.D. Feddersen: Plastic-metal hybrid structures provide new design possibilities

05.08.2009 - In terms of weight savings, and therefore also fuel savings, the use of plastic-metal hybrid structures is opening up possibilities for new structural designs in the automotive industry. In this method, an injection mould is used to interlock metal components with plastic in a single step. This hybrid...

BASF sells styrene monomer site in Korea

04.08.2009 - BASF (www.basf.com) has announced that it will sell its styrene monomer site in Ulsan, Korea, to SK Energy, a South Korean refining company. The contract comprises the plant with a capacity of 320,000 metric tons of styrene monomer per year and the 50,000 square meter site, which is situated within...

Clariant: Strong Cash Flow Despite Continuing Weak Demand

31.07.2009 - Clariant (www.clariant.com), a world leader in specialty chemicals, today announced sales of CHF 1.609 billion in the second quarter of 2009, compared to CHF 2.121 billion in the same period of the previous year. This represents a 24% decline in Swiss Francs, and 21% in local currency. The second quarter...

Bekum: Group concentrates production locations in Europe

31.07.2009 - The BEKUM group (www.bekum.de) with their concentration of its production locations in Europe, meets the present declining demand for blow moulding machines, due to the negative world market development. In the future the manufacturing of blowing moulding machines for packaging applications is concentrated...

BASF improves earnings after weak start to the year

31.07.2009 - BASF’s (www.basf.de) sales and earnings were again negatively impacted by the ongoing global economic crisis in the second quarter of 2009. The effects on business were especially pronounced in the segments Chemicals, Plastics and Functional Solutions, in particular because of the situation in the automotive...

Kreyenborg: New discharge unit for plastics producer in Far East

30.07.2009 - The efficiency of a production line can be considerably increased by the retrofitting of modern components. This is proven by the installation of a screen changer and a melt pump at a plastics producer in Far East. The Asian producer of PP focuses on a completely new KREYENBORG (www.kreyenborg.de)...

Krones presents mid-year report for 2009

30.07.2009 - The figures at Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, were hit by the cyclical downtrend in the first half of 2009. Thanks to its eminently sound financial and balance-sheet structure, however, Krones is able to cope significantly better with the consequences...

LyondellBasell to increase PP prices in Europe

29.07.2009 - Effective August 1, LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) will increase prices by €70 per tonne on its polypropylene grades sold in Europe. “Escalating feedstock costs have necessitated this increase,” said Yves Bonte, Senior Vice President of LyondellBasell’s Polypropylene Business.

interpack 2011: Again with 'iF packaging award'

29.07.2009 - For the second time now iF International Forum Design GmbH (www.ifdesign.de) will be awarding the “iF packaging award” at interpack 2011 (www.interpack.com). Held for the first time at interpack 2008 the competition met with a great response with 148 entries from 17 countries. The iF packaging award...

LANXESS: Increased prices for EPDM

27.07.2009 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is to increase its prices for ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) globally effective August 1, 2009. Dependent on regions and rubber grades the price adjustment per metric ton will comprise...

LyondellBasell Names Kent Potter as CFO

24.07.2009 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) announced that its Supervisory Board has named Kent Potter as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 1. Potter will succeed Alan Bigman who will be offered an opportunity to continue assisting in the company´s Chapter 11 restructuring activities....

DuPont: New Digital Rotary Control Valve to Boost Fuel Economy

24.07.2009 - Traditional “analog” thermostat temperature-control systems for vehicles will soon be a technology of the past if inventor Tom Hollis has his way. Switching to digital can manage critical fluid systems in a way that significantly improves fuel economy, reduces emissions and engine, driveline wear to...

Coperion: Direct on-line scanning of pellets

23.07.2009 - Fast color control saves the compounder time and money A color control system equipped with a high-precision spectral line camera permits – for the first time ever – the on-line color control directly at the plastic pellets. With this innovative technology, color measurement takes only a few minutes...

Krones: Lightweight bottle 'PET lite 6.6' proves suitability for actual practice

22.07.2009 - With only 6.6 grams ´PET lite 6.6´ is currently the lightest PET bottle on the market for the 0.5-litre size. A concept that Krones AG (www.krones.com) has proven to function flawlessly both in the production process on a Contiform blow-moulding machine and in the filler itself. This container system,...

Proto Labs: Expanding in Europe - Opening a French Sales and Technical Support Office

21.07.2009 - Proto Labs (www.protomol.co.uk), also known as Protomold, announced the opening of its French office, based in Le Bourget du Lac, in the region of Savoie, north of Chambéry. "Our success with the Proto Labs office in Germany gives us great confidence that a similar investment in France will help...

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