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Erema: Food-contact grade PET recycling at Drinktec/PETpoint 2009

11.08.2009 - At this year´s "Drinktec" (featuring an integrated "PETpoint") the Austrian recycling specialist EREMA (www.erema.at) will be presenting its expertise in the field of technological, high-quality and cost-efficient plastic recycling. A focal point here will be the reprocessing of waste post-consumer...

LANXESS: New polymer additive for plastics and rubber

11.08.2009 - Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) has developed a polymer additive for plastics and rubber that is now available for industrial application. These microgels, which consist of nanoscale organic particles (Photo), can be used to improve the material properties of elastomer and thermoplastic...

Polytec: Divestiture of PEGUFORM GROUP concluded

10.08.2009 - POLYTEC HOLDING AG (www.polytec-group.com) announces the closing of the divestiture of PEGUFORM GROUP (www.peguform.de). Due to the fulfilment of all suspensive conditions of the restructuring agreement (approval by the general meeting as well as the approval of antitrust authorities) from now on...

Evonik Röhm: Price Rise for PMMA sheet products

10.08.2009 - Effective 15 September 2009, Evonik Röhm GmbH (www.evonik.com) is increasing its prices for the PMMA sheet products it markets under the PLEXIGLAS® and DEGLAS® trademarks. As far as permissible under existing agreements, the prices for all products will be raised by seven percent. The price adjustment...

Dr. Gupta: First issue of „TPE MAGAZINE“ published

06.08.2009 - Dr. Gupta Verlag (Ratingen, www.gupta-verlag.de) has launched TPE MAGAZINE, the first magazine worldwide dedicated exclusively to thermoplastic elastomers and the industries involved in TPE production and processing. This includes the raw material suppliers and compounders, machinery suppliers and...

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...

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