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LANXESS to move Group headquarters to Cologne

15.08.2008 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) plans to move its headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne. Relocation is to be completed by 2011. LANXESS will now begin discussions with the city of Cologne to identify possible sites.“LANXESS is today a well-positioned and globally successful...

DuPont Engineering Polymers adjusts European sales & marketing structure to reflect global polymer market

15.08.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (EP, www.dupont.com) has realigned its European organizational and geographical structure to reflect the increasingly global nature of its business. The changes form part of the business’ overall business strategy to deliver value to its customers through innovation, product...

Coperion: Two compounding lines for POM delivered to China

13.08.2008 - Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG (www.coperion.com) has delivered its two so far biggest compounding lines for polyoxymethylene (POM) to a company in the eastern part of China. Having been put into service in May of this year, the compounding lines are used for the compounding, degassing,...

BASF: New PA66 and PBT grades for contact with food products

12.08.2008 - Since beginning of August 2008, which is when the European Union’s GMP regulations for materials that come into contact with food products have gone into effect, BASF (www.basf.com) will be offering several new grades in its range of Engineering Plastics in Europe specifically for food contact. These...

Bayer MaterialScience raised price for MDI

11.08.2008 - Effective August 1, 2008, Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.de) raised its sales prices for polymeric and monomeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) and MDI derivatives in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The price for MDI will increase by EUR 0.10 per kilogram. The...

Krones launches its own Corporate TV

11.08.2008 - At Krones AG (www.krones.com) the pictures are moving. Since July, the world´s technology leader for filling and packaging machinery has been broadcasting on its own Corporate TV channels. The internet television can be received free of charge under www.krones.tv. Corporate TV is being used for...

New Book: High Performance Polymers

08.08.2008 - This new book "High Performance Polymers" presents the state-of-the-art polymerization, fabrication and application methods of high performance industrial polymers as well as providing fundamental information for practical engineers working in industries that develop advanced applications - industries...

Evonik: Price Increase for PMMA Molding Compounds and Sheet Products

07.08.2008 - Effective September 1, 2008, the Acrylic Polymers Business Line of Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) will raise the prices of its PMMA molding compounds and sheet products marketed under the PLEXIGLAS® and DEGLAS® brand names. The increase, if permissible under existing agreements, will amount to €0.20...

HT Troplast / profine: Albrecht Lange new Managing Director of profine Group

05.08.2008 - The supervisory board of HT Troplast GmbH (profine Group, www.profine-group.com) has appointed Albrecht Lange (42, Photo) as Managing Director taking effect August 4, 2008. In this position, he will have global responsibility for Sales and Marketing. "We are delighted to have a very experienced and...

Windsor Kunststofftechnologie: Peter Kochs strengthens the distribution of JSW injection moulding machines

04.08.2008 - Since July 1, 2008, Peter Kochs (Photo) has been the new Account Manager JSW at Windsor Kunststofftechnologie GmbH (www.windsor-gmbh.de), the official distribution partner of JSW (Japan Steel Works Ltd.). It is his task to build up further power in the sale of JSW injection moulding machines. Peter...

Petcore: European PET bottle collection 2007 increases by nearly 20%

01.08.2008 - Petcore (www.petcore.org) announced recently that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.13m tonnes in 2007, an increase of about 20% on 2006. In 2007 just about 40% of all PET bottles in the market were collected for recycle. The overall share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET...

Capsnap Europe: New managing director for Watertek Turkey

01.08.2008 - Burhan Engin, an experienced marketing and sales manager, was appointed to be the new managing director of Watertek Turkey, a joint venture of Capsnap Europe Packaging Austria (www.capsnap.at) and Teknikplastik Turkey. By mid July the Turkish site will have received ISO 9001 and BRC/IoP certifications...

DuPont: New Singapore plant expands global manufacturing network for Vespel® parts

31.07.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) recently announced that production for its high growth DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes has begun at its newest facility in Singapore. Other production facilities for Vespel® parts and shapes are located in Utsunomiya, Japan; Mechelen, Belgium; and Newark,...

Erema to stage symposium on 'PET Strapping'

31.07.2008 - Erema (www.erema.at), the Austrian manufacturer of plastic recycling systems, and their technology partner Techno Plastic s.r.l., Castelfranco Emilia (Modena), Italy (www.technoplastic.it), are to hold a special symposium on "PET Strapping", the inline processing of PET bottle flake to make strapping...

SKZ: 'Geosynthetics Asia 2008' - Hürde 'CE-Kennzeichen' meistern

30.07.2008 - Auf der Geokunststoff-Messe "Geosynthetics Asia 2008" im Juni 2008, Shanghai/ VR China, präsentierte sich das SKZ (www.skz.de) mit seinem umfang- und hilfreichen Leistungsangebot zum Thema Geosynthetics. Alle Informationen zur CE-Kennzeichnung von Produkten, die am europäischen Markt Chancen suchen...

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