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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,...

Krahn Chemie distributes EVA of Braskem

10.03.2009 - Early this year, Braskem Europe BV granted the Hamburg distributor KRAHN CHEMIE GmbH (www.krahn.de) the sales rights for ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers (EVA) of the Brazilian holding company Braskem S.A. (www.braskem.com.br). Both companies have been working together for many years in successfully...

KRAIBURG TPE banking on the medical technology sector

10.03.2009 - KRAIBURG TPE (www.kraiburg-tpe.com) is expanding its portfolio to include a new product group – "THERMOLAST® M" – directed toward customers in the field of medical technology. Five different series of compounds offer innovative solutions in TPE for use in the pharmaceutical and medical technology markets,...

DuPont: New polyacetal optimises impact performance, flow and cost-efficiency

10.03.2009 - The launch of DuPont™ Delrin® 300CP (www.dupont.com) marks the development of a new polyacetal (polyoxymethylene, POM) offering a distinct combination of properties. The engineering thermoplastic combines high impact resistance, even at low temperatures, with high stiffness, strength and elongation...

Call for papers: 14th International Congress for Battery Recycling

10.03.2009 - The 14th International Congress for Battery Recycling (ICBR09) organised by ICM AG (www.icm.ch) will be held from 16-18 September 2009 in the Hotel InterContinental in charming Geneva, Switzerland. Speakers and participants will discuss the following topics: • Global update of battery collection...

SKZ: International Seminar - 'Plastics Injection Moulding'

10.03.2009 - Are you implementing best practices for cost effective injection moulding Join the leading experts during Plastics Injection Moulding MENA from 26 to 27 May 2009 at Radisson SAS hotel in Dubai and learn how to tackle the targets of improvement and productivity. Cost reduction and quality improvement...

Plastal Holding: Swedish supplier of plastic components to the automotive industry files for bankruptcy

09.03.2009 - The Board of Directors of Plastal Holding AB (www.plastal.com), a supplier of plastic components to the automotive industry, at the end of last week decided to file for bankruptcy at the Mölndal district court, Sweden. The company has suffered a severe liquidity crisis due to the sharp downturn in the...

PURAC: Strategic partnerships with TOYOBO and AkzoNobel

09.03.2009 - PURAC (www.purac.com) and TOYOBO, a Japanese leading specialty chemicals, film & fiber company, announce that they have formed a strategic partnership for the production of renewable materials. These will be produced from the non-GMO lactides monomers of PURAC and will be broadly introduced into the...

BASF + Dow: New HPPO Plant in Antwerp Completes Start-Up Phase

06.03.2009 - BASF SE (BASF, www.basf.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Dow, www.dow.com) yesterday announced that the world’s largest commercial-scale propylene oxide (PO) plant and the first based on the innovative hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) technology jointly developed by BASF and Dow has completed...

Evonik: New PEEK grades for Medical Applications

06.03.2009 - For the first time, Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) presented its VESTAKEEP® M series for medical applications at MedTec Europe in Stuttgart, March 3 to 5. The series is suitable for short-term body contact. It includes the medium-viscosity grade VESTAKEEP® M2G, the high-viscosity compound VESTAKEEP®...

Pallmann: Pulverization of PP Copolymer without any cooling nitrogen

05.03.2009 - For the first time pulverization of the difficult-to-pulverize PP copolymer is possible without the addition of nitrogen as a cooling agent. The PolyGrinder pulverizing system, type PKMM accomplishes this task under ambient temperature. A more economical pulverization and the protection of important...

Sukano opens new production plant in Malaysia

04.03.2009 - Sukano (www.sukano.com), one leading manufacturer of specialty masterbatches and compounds, headquartered in Schindellegi, Switzerland, officially opens the company´s new production facility in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in March 2009. Last year an 8,200 m² manufacturing site was established in the industrial...

Deceuninck to Consolidate its American Operational Activities

04.03.2009 - Group Deceuninck (www.deceuninck.com) has announced its intentions to concentrate all of its American operational activities on its state-of-the-art site in Monroe, Ohio. Extrusion activities at Little Rock, Arkansas will be stopped. The decision will affect the employment of about 70 people. The...

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