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Dow Europe GmbH Announces Price Increases for Polyethylene Resins

26.03.2009 - Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) is announcing a price increase across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions for PE resins, based on the accumulated costs for raw materials that the company is experiencing and the need to restore its margins. Effective April 1, 2009, or as contract...

BASF temporarily idles steam cracker in Ludwigshafen

26.03.2009 - BASF (www.basf.com) will idle the smaller of its two steam crackers at its site in Ludwigshafen due to continuing weak demand. The temporary shutdown of the cracker, which has an annual capacity of 220,000 metric tons of ethylene, is planned for the middle of April and will last at least three months....

LyondellBasell to Close Chocolate Bayou Olefins

25.03.2009 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) will permanently close its Chocolate Bayou olefins complex near Alvin, Texas, by Aug. 4, 2009. The plant has been out of service since mid-December and the company announced on Feb. 12 plans to indefinitely idle the unit and began the process of reducing...

Hekuma: Klaus Wanner New Director of Sales

25.03.2009 - On 1 March 2009 Mr. Klaus Wanner (Photo) started as the new Director of Sales HEKUMA GmbH (www.hekuma.com). He succeeds Bernd Bruckert as Director of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Wanner studied machine building in Brunswick and Munich. After receiving his engineering degree he began work as a Project Engineer...

Mann+Hummel ProTec: Precisely dosed for high quality fleece fabric

25.03.2009 - Process-stabilised dosing of all components directly during the manufacturing process – that is one of MANN+HUMMEL ProTec’s core competencies. The fleece manufacturer RKW Gronau relies on exactly this competence in its new nonwoven fabric plant. The SOMOS® Gramix S9 gravimetric dosing and mixing system,...

Gneuss: Large area Filtration Systems for PVC film, PET Recycling and cable compounds

24.03.2009 - Gneuss Kunststofftechnik (www.gneuss.com) has announced the delivery of a number of large area Rotary Filtration Systems for the high throughput rate requirements. Production of PVC film A process - constant Filtration System type RSFgenius 330 will in the near future replace a duplex candle filter...

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...

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