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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...

BASF: Concept for Basel site - Research Center „Plastics“

08.06.2009 - Effective July 1, 2009, BASF’s Paper Chemicals operating division, which was established in April, will be headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, together with two associated business units: Coatings & Starch Europe and Wet End Chemicals. European business unit for plastic additives In addition, the...

Kreyenborg: Food packaging from R-PET with V-type screen changer

08.06.2009 - Packaging manufacturer Sharp Interpack (www.sharpinterpack.com) sets a new benchmark in the production of plastics packaging for food. High quality packaging film is made from recycled PET on the new line in Bridgwater UK, which incorporates a V-type screen changer with Power Backflush Technology from...

Wittmann Battenfeld: Traditional „Richtfest“ celebration in Meinerzhagen

05.06.2009 - Wittmann Battenfeld (www.wittmann-battenfeld.com) has entered a new era in Germany with a traditional Richtfest on May 11th, 2009 celebrating the completion of the roof of their new 4,600 m² building in Meinerzhagen, Germany. Not unlike a Topping Off Ceremony for the last steel girders on a building,...

DuPont: Universal hose from Elaflex with electrically- dissipative lining Teflon® PTFE is FDA-conform

05.06.2009 - The new Elaflon® PTFE universal hoses, developed by Elaflex-Gummi Ehlers GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) in partnership with ContiTech Schlauch GmbH (Korbach, Germany), are equipped with a seamlessly-extruded and smooth lining made of Teflon® PTFE 62 (www.dupont.com). The fluoropolymer combines a high degree...

Sumitomo Demag to rearrange production - 50 million Euro investment in injection moulding

02.06.2009 - The Wiehe, Germany, based production facility of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH (www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu) will be turned into a major manufacturing base for all-electric injection moulding machines within Sumitomo Heavy Industries. Besides the new all-electric IntElect for the European...

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