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DuPont: Engineering Polymers announces price increases

26.06.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announces price increases for its thermoplastic resins in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to be effective on July 15 or as contracts allow. The increases are based on unprecedented escalation of raw materials, energy, transportation and logistics costs...

BASF to increase prices globally for Styrenic Copolymer Specialties and Engineering Plastics

25.06.2008 - As of July 1st, 2008, BASF (www.basf.com) will be raising its prices globally up to 400 Euro per metric ton across its portfolio of Styrenic Copolymer Specialties and Engineering Plastics. This includes the Styrenic Copolymer Specialties Luran® S (ASA and ASA/PC), Terluran® (ABS)-Specialties, Terlux®...

Kreyenborg Group: ‘5th Symposium Plastics Processing’ with overview of latest technologies

24.06.2008 - From 10th until 12th June, 2008 the Kreyenborg Group (www.kreyenborg-group.de) arranged its 5th symposium under the title „Extrusion and Polymerisation today”. Specialists of the branch presented the current trends and latest methods in the fields of machine and processing technology. As leading...

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....

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