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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....

DuPont Introduces Biomax® PTT Renewably Sourced™ Injection Molding Resin

18.07.2008 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (www.dupont.com) announced the introduction of Biomax® PTT (PolyTrimethylTerephthalate), which contains up to 35 percent renewably sourced content for packaging applications. Biomax® PTT 1100 is especially suitable for use in injection-molded containers, cosmetic...

ISO 15270 will help expand plastics recovery and recycling worldwide

18.07.2008 - A new ISO International Standard (www.iso.org) will assist the emerging worldwide market for plastic recovery and recycling. Because plastic products are traded internationally and many of the plastic resin manufacturing companies and industrial users are multinational companies, the arrival of ISO...

BASF plasticizer Hexamoll® DINCH comes out ahead in eco-efficiency analysis

18.07.2008 - Top five commercially available non-phthalate plasticizers compared The BASF (www.basf.com) product Hexamoll® DINCH has the highest eco-efficiency in a comparison of the top five non-phthalate plasticizers on the market today. So say the results of a BASF eco-efficiency analysis, verified by the impartial...

ECEBD: New Study - 'Sheet Extrusion and Thermoforming in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)'

17.07.2008 - ECEBD (www.ecebd.de), the Hungarian market research and consulting company, has followed with great attention the Thermoforming and vacuum forming markets of the CEE region in the recent times. As a result of the long lasting inspection of the regional markets the company has published a free study....

DuPont: New European Sales & Marketing Manager for DuPont™ Vespel® Parts and Shapes

16.07.2008 - Jost E. Laumeyer (38, Bild) is the new European Sales & Marketing Manager for DuPont™ Vespel® Parts and Shapes with effect from 1 July 2008. He will be located at the company’s Central European Sales & Marketing Centre in Bad Homburg, Germany. Jost succeeds Jeroen van Campen, who accepts a new role...

Zwick Roell: Materials testing solutions for the plastics and rubber industry

16.07.2008 - Zwick Roell (www.zwick.de) has introduces a new 68-page full colour brochure which covers the complete range of testing instruments, machines, software and application solutions for the plastics and rubber industry and corresponding research and testing institutes and training centers. In addition...

Dr. Thiele: 4th China International Recycled Polyester Conference

15.07.2008 - Hangzhou, China, 2.-4.9.2008 China Chemical Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI), PCI-Group and Dr. Thiele Polyester Technology (www.polyester-technology.com) are presenting the 4th China International Recycled Polyester Conference in Hangzhou China. This event which is taking place September...

DuPont Engineering Polymers to expand compounding capacity in China

14.07.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announced an expansion of compounding capacity for its range of DuPont™ Zytel® nylon 6 and 66 resins and DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA high performance polyamide resins at the manufacturing site of DuPont in Shenzhen, China. The expansion will add 30,000 metric...

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