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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...

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...

DuPont: Housing made of polyphthalamide (PPA) facilitates the precise management of car air suspension systems

30.07.2008 - DuPont™ Zytel® HTN (www.dupont.com) was the material of choice for Woco Industrietechnik GmbH during the development of a pneumatic switchover unit which is exposed to high internal pressures. It is used in air suspension systems from Continental Automotive Systems. The polyphthalamide (PPA) with 35...

EMS-GRIVORY: Price increase for polyamide materials

29.07.2008 - EMS-GRIVORY (www.emsgrivory.com) will increase with effect from 1 August their prices in Europe by 7%. The products concerned are Grilamid PA12, Grilamid TR, Grivory GV/HT and Grilon PA6/66. These price increases result chiefly from the significant rises in the cost of energy, transport and raw materials...

External power interruption in Borealis’ Schwechat plant led to complete plant shut down

28.07.2008 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, suffered an external power interruption at its plant in Schwechat, Austria on Friday, July 18, at 5am. The shut-down was caused by problems with the external electricity line which fed the whole plant...

Herbold: PET washing line commissioned in Kazakhstan

25.07.2008 - Early this year, Herbold Meckesheim GmbH (www.herbold.com) commissioned the latest state-of-the-art washing line for PET bottles (Photo) in Kazakhstan. The operator of the line, Vtorma Ecology, has also built the first big waste grading plant in Almaty. The positively sorted PET bottles are transformed...

DuPont: DuPont Introduces Biomax® TPS Renewably Sourced™ Sheet and Resins

25.07.2008 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (www.dupont.com) recently announced the introduction of Biomax® TPS, a renewably sourced thermoplastic starch for packaging applications. The offering consists of sheet stock that contains 85-90 percent renewably sourced content for thermoformed trays and articles,...

DuPont: New Lidding Sealant Makes Ready Meals Even Easier with Antifog (AF) Additive Adds Transparency to Lidding

24.07.2008 - Microwavable dinners just became more convenient with the new DuPont™ (www.dupont.com) Appeel® Lidding Sealant Resins and DuPont™ Appeel® AF. This topical surfactant solution carries an active anti-fogging agent that can be applied to a wide-range of peelable and non-peelable sealant films for products...

BASF invests in a new plant for the production of oxi-dized waxes at its Ludwigshafen site

23.07.2008 - In the fourth quarter of 2008, BASF (www.basf.com) will begin construction of a second oxidizing plant for the production of synthetic waxes at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, site. From 2010 the plant will produce several thousand metric tons of oxidized waxes using a process developed by BASF. This is...

BASF to raise prices for the plastic Styrolux in Europe

22.07.2008 - With immediate effect BASF (www.basf.com) will be raising its prices in Europe for Styrolux® (SBC polymer) by 150 Euro per metric ton. This measure is in addition to the increase that was announced in June 2008, because the cost of raw materials, energy and transportation has further risen. The...

BKG: Underwater Pelletizing Systems for Wood Polymer Composites

21.07.2008 - Worldwide, the so-called wood polymer composites (WPC) become more and more important. On the one hand, that results from the possibility to thus replace more and more tropical wood. On the other hand, wood fibres resp. saw dust are considerably cheaper than polymer which is thus cheaply stretched....

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