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Bayer MaterialScience raises prices for polycarbonates

23.06.2008 - Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.de) has raised its global selling prices for the polycarbonate resins Makrolon®, Makroblend®, Bayblend® T and Apec® by EUR 0.15 per kilogram effective June 16, 2008. The price of Bayblend® FR is also being increased throughout the world by EUR 0.20 per...

LANXESS: Price adjustment for rubber chemicals

23.06.2008 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG’s (www.lanxess.com) Rubber Chemicals business unit is to increase its prices worldwide for antioxidants (Vulkanox), accelerators (Vulkacit) and specialties (Vulkazon, Coagulant, KS 95) effective July 1, 2008. The price increase will comprise up to US$1,200 per...

EuPR: PET working group will create standards for RPET price quotations

20.06.2008 - The European Plastics Recyclers association “EuPR” (www.plasticsrecyclers.eu) and its PET Working Group express their concern to react to the different price publications on RPET as their market function is not seen as a neutral guidance without the presence of an RPET standard. As the use of RPET...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers Increases Ethylene Copolymer Resin Prices

19.06.2008 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP, www.dupont.com) announced a price increase of up to 0,15 USD per pound for the following ethylene copolymer product lines: DuPont™ Appeel®, Bynel®, DuPontTM 20, Elvaloy®, Elvaloy® AC, Elvax®, Entira™, Fusabond®, Nucrel®, Selar®, and Surlyn®. The increase...

KMO 2009: New Date early in April to avoid interference with Plast'09

19.06.2008 - The organizers of the KMO fair, Messe Ostwestfalen GmbH (www.messeostwestfalen.de), announced recently that the date of the 19th KMO (www.kmo-messe.de) will be rescheduled by one week. Instead of in the end of March, the next fair on plastics processing in Bad Salzuflen will take place from the 1st...

13th Polyester Recycling Forum: Innovations and Case Studies at Gneuss in Bad Oeynhausen

19.06.2008 - Due to the 25th anniversary of the founding of Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH (www.gneuss.com), this year´s Polyester Recycling Forum, organised by Dr. Thiele (www.polyester-technology.com) will take place on October 1st in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Over the years, the reprocessing of PET bottle flake...

LME plastics contracts enhanced

18.06.2008 - The LME (www.lme.co.uk) has made further enhancements to the plastics contract specifications to provide a more accessible trading and price risk management environment. The contract enhancements follow the increasing recognition in the physical markets of the LME contracts, particularly since the...

DuPont™ Surlyn® Resin Adds a Touch of Glamour

18.06.2008 - A faceted closure, molded from DuPont™ Surlyn® PC2000 (www.dupont.com), adorns the latest fragrance from American pop-star Christina Aguilera. The manufacturer, Procter & Gamble prestige products of Cologne, Germany, selected the functional and aesthetic packaging material due to its glass-like transparency,...

DuPont: Ein Hauch von Glamour dank Surlyn®

18.06.2008 - Eine facettierte Kappe aus Surlyn® PC2000 von DuPont (www.dupont.de) ziert die neueste Duftkreation des amerikanischen Popstars Christina Aguilera. Der Hersteller Procter & Gamble prestige products, Köln, wählte diesen funktionalen und ästhetischen Verpackungskunststoff auf Grund seiner glasähnlichen...

WEIMA Energy: Martin Friz new Managing Director

17.06.2008 - Martin Friz (Photo) has become the new Managing Director at WEIMA Energy GmbH (www.weima-energy.com) in Ilsfeld/Germany, an established machinery manufacturing company specialised in production of shredding machines for Refuse Derived Fuels (RDF). He has replaced the previous Managing Director, Harald...

Gammaflux: Distribution partnership with Danish toolmaking company

16.06.2008 - With effect from 1st June 2008, Gammaflux Europe GmbH (www.gammaflux.de) has signed a distribution agreement for its hot runner temperature controllers with the Danish toolmaking firm of Sønderborg Værktøjsfabrik. René Bertschi, Managing Director of Gammaflux Europe, explains the decision to take...

Uhde Inventa-Fischer technology for BASF's Ecoflex project

13.06.2008 - BASF SE (www.basf.com) has awarded a contract to engineer and supply its proprietary 2 R process for the BASF Ecoflex® project to Uhde Inventa-Fischer (www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com). The plant will be built in Ludwigshafen (Germany) and will have an annual capacity of 60,000 tons of Ecoflex® polymer....

BASF: Whiplash protection - Crash-active headrests

13.06.2008 - BMW has recently started using crash-active headrests (Photo) whose kinematic skeleton is made primarily of BASF´s engineering plastics (www.basf.com). The plastic framework is manufactured by ITW in a fully automated assembly plant in Röttingen, Germany and the headrest is subsequently assembled at...

Wittmann Battenfeld: Competence Days a sweeping success

12.06.2008 - Trade visitors from all over Europe accepted the invitation of Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH (www.battenfeld-imt.com) to attend the “Competence Days” from June 4 to 5, 2008 in Kottingbrunn (Austria). Under the motto “Technology working for you”, a team of experts presented innovative machinery and process...

Gneuss: Top quality PET strapping tape efficiently made from bottle flake

12.06.2008 - Interstrap B.V. in Heerlen, Holland is extremely satisfied with the performance of their fully automatic rotary filtration system RSFgenius and the Online Viscometer from Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH (www.gneuss.com). This company has been using these systems for the processing of PET bottle flakes...

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