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Oregon-Based Plastics Recycler reclaims Synthetic Crude Oil from Unwanted Plastic

24.03.2009 - Agri-Plas ships first batches of crude oil to refinery In the latest showing of Oregon’s entrepreneurial and environmental prowess, Agri-Plas (www.agriplasinc.com), an Oregon-based plastics recycler, is the first company in the nation to convert unwanted and typically unrecyclable agricultural plastics...

NatureWorks: No Technical Barrier for Recycling Plastic Bottles Made From Plants

20.03.2009 - Following an extensive analysis of current technology NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com) concludes that automated systems being used today in the recycling industry are capable of sorting natural plastic bottles from other plastic bottles with an accuracy approaching 100 percent. This finding...

DuPont: L’Oréal Professionnel adopts DuPont™ Surlyn® for the caps of its new hair styling range

20.03.2009 - The coloured, translucent caps of L’Oréal’s ‘play ball anti-frizz fizz’ and ‘play ball wax smoothie’ hair styling products are moulded from DuPont™ Surlyn® (www.dupont.cm), selected for its high transparency and ability to form thick-walled parts with uneven thicknesses. The ‘play ball’ range from L’Oréal...

Wittmann Battenfeld opens sales office in Budapest

19.03.2009 - The Wittmann Group continues to extend the scope of its activities in Hungary. On 1st March 2009, Wittmann (www.wittmann-battenfeld.com, www.wittmann-robot.hu) opened its new sales office in Pilisszentiván on the outskirts of Budapest. This represents a major step in Wittmann Battenfeld’s determination...

Storopack: Air-cushioning made of bio-film

18.03.2009 - The air-cushioning system Airplus (Photo) from Storopack (www.storopack.com) is being extended to include a bio-plastic material quality. The compostable film is designed to run on all the machines in the series, giving great variation on the types of applications it is suitable for. The filling and...

Menzolit Compounds: Incorporating heating wires into slabs of SMC

18.03.2009 - Out off the Menzolit (www.menzolit.com) laboratory comes a new invention. It is a method to incorporate heating wires into slabs of SMC (Graphic) to make integrally moulded heated trays, heating elements or similar items to heat electrically. Moulding metal elements into SMC is not a new idea, it...

LANXESS establishes strong presence in Russian and CIS markets

16.03.2009 - Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) officially launched recently its new, independent sales company in Moscow to manage the company´s business in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). OOO LANXESS’ office will be located in The Federation Tower...

BASF opens new Neopor plant in Ludwigshafen

16.03.2009 - On March 13, 2009, BASF (www.basf.de, www.plasticsportal.eu) has started up a new plant for the insulation material Neopor® (www.neopor.de) in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Neopor is an expandable polystyrene (EPS). The plant has a yearly production capacity of 90,000 metric tons and works with a new process...

DuPont: Strong and flexible arresters secure medical storage trays

16.03.2009 - The performance of DuPont™ Delrin® (www.dupont.com) acetal resin in terms of its strength, flexibility and fatigue resistance is critical to the reliable operation of tray arresters fitted in Medstor medical cabinets from Mailbox Mouldings International Ltd. (Stalybridge, England). Used in combination...

European Commission approves BASF’s acquisition of Ciba

13.03.2009 - The European Commission yesterday approved the acquisition of Ciba Holding AG by BASF (www.basf.com). The approval is subject to the divestiture of individual product lines and production plants as well as a product license. The conditions apply to products that accounted for sales of less than €100...

Kautex Maschinenbau: Equipment solution for highly transparent packaging bottles

13.03.2009 - Highly transparent packaging solutions made of polypropylene (PP) for applications in the cosmetics and food & beverages industries have become extremely popular (Photo). Yet it takes the right blow molding equipment to produce an unclouded result. At the Chinaplas exhibition, Kautex Maschinenbau (www.kautex-group.com)...

Kreyenborg: Infrared Drum IRD for crystallizing and drying of PET flakes to Ireland’s Foamalite

12.03.2009 - The German machine supplier Kreyenborg Plant Technology (www.kreyenborg.de, www.kreyenborg-group.de) has delivered an energy efficient Infrared Drum IRD for the crystallizing and drying of PET flakes that is installed in a new multi million Euro installation of a complete sheet extrusion line at Ireland’s...

Dow and Rohm and Haas Announce Settlement to Close Acquisition

11.03.2009 - The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH) recently announced that the companies have reached an agreement to close Dow´s previously announced acquisition of Rohm and Haas on April 1, 2009. This agreement resolves the litigation initiated by Rohm and Haas against Dow on...

BASF: Biodegradable plastic Ecovio in German ALDI shopping bags

11.03.2009 - The large German discount supermarket chain ALDI SÜD is now offering its German customers shopping bags (Photo) made of BASF’s biodegradable plastic Ecovio® (www.basf.com). These bags are manufactured for ALDI by the VICTOR Güthoff & Partner Group, head­quartered in Kerpen, Germany. The plastic Ecovio...

Bayer MaterialScience: Colorful light contours for an unusual product design

11.03.2009 - Makrofol® LISA polycarbonate film from Bayer MaterialScience AG provides designers with enormous scope for creating plastic parts with a highly unusual and very striking colored light around the edges. The transparent film collects incident light, conveys it to the edges and allows it to emerge there,...

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