Latest News

Krones: New records for sales and earnings

14.03.2008 - Krones remains on course for growth in 2008 as well In the 2007 business year, Krones AG (www.krones.com), the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, has achieved new records for all significant statistics, according to the provisional figures. In comparison to the preceding...

Technical Book: 1000 Tips for Injection Moulding

14.03.2008 - The book describes besides the theoretical statements, questions and problems from the practical experience and is non-brand specific and independent of the machine manufacturer. On one hand, it supports the reference work for professionals and at the same time for the beginners. It avoids the errors...

INEOS Polyolefins announces extension of Grangemouth PP and PE

13.03.2008 - INEOS Polyolefins (www.ineos.com) recently today announced its intention to invest in random co-polymer technology on its liquid pool polypropylene (PP) unit at Grangemouth, Scotland. By linking ethylene supply from its crackers to the PP unit, random co-polymer grades with a wide range of melt flow...

Versteigerung: Spritzgießmaschinen u.a. - Balda Solutions Deutschland GmbH

12.03.2008 - Im Auftrag der Berechtigten versteigern wir die frei werdenden Spritzgießmaschinen der Firma Balda Solutions Deutschland GmbH Bergkirchener Straße 228 32549 Bad Oeyenhausen Versteigerungstermin: Donnerstag, 27. März 2008, Beginn: 11.30 Uhr Besichtigung: Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 von 12.00 –...

Gammaflux: Wireless LAN as a cost saver

12.03.2008 - Gammaflux Europe GmbH (www.gammaflux.de) has for some time been offering its new option, "Wireless LAN", for all of its hot runner temperature controllers. It permits particularly low-cost remote monitoring of the temperature controllers and the operating condition of the hot runner system, as the complex...

Nowofol: New production line for mono-axially oriented Polypropylene films

10.03.2008 - The setting up of a further film production line for the manufacture of mono-axially oriented Polypropylene films and thus an increase of NOWOFOL´s (www.nowofol.de) capacity to 15,000 tonnes per annum have recently been decided from the supervisory board and the executive board of NOWOFOL Kunststoffprodukte...

Celanese: Global Price Increase for PVOH

10.03.2008 - Celanese (www.celanese.com), a global leader in the chemicals industry, announced recently that it will increase the price of all polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) grades. This increase applies to all applications in all regions as noted below. The increase will be effective for shipments on or after April 1,...

Borealis: New Vice President for Business Unit Pipe

10.03.2008 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces the appointment of Jane Toogood (Photo)as Vice President for its business unit Pipe, effective immediately. She succeeds Lorenzo Delorenzi, who was recently appointed as Executive Vice President...

BASF: New Ultraform grades for blow molding

10.03.2008 - Be it hairspray bottles, paint cans or oil tanks – thanks to BASF’s (www.plasticsportal.eu, www.basf.de) new Ultraform® E3120 BM, hollow objects with demanding requirements can now be made of polyoxymethylene (POM) by means of extrusion blow molding. In comparison to containers made of polyethylene...

Erema: VACUREMA PET Recycling Technology a worldwide success

06.03.2008 - EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. (www.erema.at) is pleased to announce that since the K show in October 2007 it has received 12 orders from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa for additional VACUREMA PET Bottle Recycling Plants. This will see the Austrian...

Perlon Monofil: New production line goes on stream at Perlon Monofil

06.03.2008 - Investment to meet rising demand / Annual capacity now well over 5,000 tons In March 2008, Perlon Monofil GmbH started up a new production line for Perlon monofilaments at its Dormagen site. The new capacity will enable this LANXESS subsidiary (www.lanxess.de) to build on its global position as a...

BASF: New polyamides for coolant circuit

06.03.2008 - Recently, BASF (www.plasticsportal.eu, www.basf.de) has added two new hydrolysis-resistant polyamides (PA 66) to its product range. These plastic grades are called Ultramid® A3WG6 HRX and A3WG7 HRX and are reinforced with 30% and 35% glass fibers, respectively. The products were developed for applications...

LANXESS launches special website for chloroprene rubber Baypren

05.03.2008 - LANXESS Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit now offers a website dedicated to its product Baypren (chloroprene rubber). Established and new customers, processors, decision-makers and anyone else interested can gain easy and rapid access to all the information they need on this rubber grade...

Lurgi Zimmer: Further PA 6 contract in China

03.03.2008 - Lurgi Zimmer GmbH, a company of Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt/Germany www.lurgi.com), has contracted a Polyamide 6 plant to be built for Zhejiang Huajian Nylon Co. Ltd., China. Zhejiang Huajian is a well-known Polyamide 6 producer for textile and engineering plastics applications. With the new plant they...

Coperion: With a new STS Compounder at Chinaplas 2008

03.03.2008 - A more powerful drive and a programmable controller with touchscreen user interface are the most important innovations featured by the STS advanced, the now improved version of the Standard-Twin-Screw(STS)-Compounder (Photo) from Coperion Keya Machinery Co., Ltd., Nanjing/China (www.coperion.com). Among...

Please find more information in German.

You wish to have news about your company and your products published here?
Please send your information and press reports to info@plasticker.de or give us a call!