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Coperion: Thomas Kehl appointed Head of Competence Center Service

27.02.2008 - The Coperion Group (www.coperion.com) has appointed Mr. Thomas Kehl (Photo) Head of its Competence Center Service. Besides the Competence Center Service, the customer and task oriented organization of the Coperion Group comprises the Competence Center Compounding & Extrusion (headed by Wolfgang Pöschl)...

Rieter sells pelletizing machinery business

27.02.2008 - Rieter AG (Winterthur, Switzerland, www.rieter.com) is selling its activities in machinery and systems for manufacturing plastics granulates to CGS Management (Pfäffikon, Switzerland, www.cgs-management.com) with retroactive effect as of January 1, 2008. The two parties signed a purchase and sale agreement...

LANXESS to build butyl rubber plant in Singapore

27.02.2008 - Strategic investment for a growing world market Specialty chemicals group LANXESS (www.lanxess.com) is to build a butyl rubber production plant in Singapore with an annual capacity of up to 100,000 metric tons. It is due to be commissioned in 2011. Dr. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the Board of Management...

PRF: 11. Polyester Recycling Forum in Moscow

25.02.2008 - 11th international Polyester Recycling Forum organized by Dr. Thiele Polyester Technlology, Gneuß Kunststofftechnik GmbH and CREON took place in Moscow the first time on February 12th 2008. The issue polyester recycling is relatively new in Russia. Bottle collection and sourcing of waste bottles...

BASF: Milk bottles made of Polystyrene

25.02.2008 - Right in time for the K 2007, BASF (www.basf.com) joined forces with ALPLA, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic beverage bottles, to come up with a bottle for milk and yoghurt beverages using impact resistant Polystyrene (PS-I). This demonstrates that Polystyrene is an inexpensive alternative...

DuPont: Two DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA Products Help Tire Pressure Monitoring System Stand Up to

25.02.2008 - SmarTire Systems Inc. tapped DuPont Automotive and high performance characteristics of DuPont™ Zytel® HTN PPA and Zytel® HTN PPA SuperStructural resins for a lightweight and durable casing for SmarTire’s new externally-mounted Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) used as part of the SmartWave® system...

New KWD-Directory: Plastic films and products in Germany 2008

21.02.2008 - 730 completely updated company profiles The KWD-Directory “Plastic films and products in Germany 2008” contains more than 730 completely updated company profiles. It is very helpful for all buyers, salesmen, producers and distributors in the range of plastic films and products. The CD with the new...

EuPC: 'Questions and Answers' document on Bioplastics and Degradability

20.02.2008 - Europe’s Brussels-based plastics converters’ body, EuPC (www.plasticsconverters.eu), has published a ‘Questions and Answers’ document on Bioplastics and Degradability. This factual brochure giving answers to the commonly asked questions on the subject follows the preparation of a detailed internal industry...

KraussMaffei and Toshiba Machine sign cooperation agreement

19.02.2008 - KraussMaffei (CEO Dr. Dietmar Straub, www.kraussmaffei.com) and Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. (President Mr. Reiji Nakajima) have signed a cooperation agreement to develop leading edge machinery for plastics processing. Both companies have already started joint projects, first results of the cooperation...

Petcore Evaluation of Polylactic acid (PLA)

19.02.2008 - PLA manufacturers have stated that PLA is compatible with the collection, sorting and recycling infrastructures currently in place in most countries of the European Union. Consequently the Petcore Technical Committee (www.petcore.org) commissioned an independent evaluation1 of the effects of PLA on...

LyondellBasell to stop HMS polypropylene production in Varennes, Quebec in April 2008

19.02.2008 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) announced recently that it will stop producing High Melt Strength (HMS) polypropylene at its Varennes, Quebec site in April 2008. The HMS unit is expected to continue normal operations until then. Yves Bonte, Senior Vice President of Polypropylene...

LANXESS opens new headquarters for central and eastern Europe in Bratislava

18.02.2008 - New branches in Warsaw and Budapest / Plans to expand business in Central and Eastern European growth markets The specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) is responding to rapidly growing demand in central and eastern Europe by today officially opening the headquarters of its new distribution...

Plastic Pakistan: Hundreds of PE bag manufacturers face closure

18.02.2008 - A new order issued on February 6, 2008 from the Provincial Sindh Government had put a ban on the production and sale of polyethylene bags with less than 300-micron thickness. This step has been taken on recommendation of the city district government of Karachi that had pointed out that the bags are...

aluplast + BASF: Getting rid of another thermal bridge

18.02.2008 - The German window system manufacturer aluplast (www.aluplast.de) is launching a window system that is highly thermally insulating as well as cost-effective, thanks to a version of Ultradur® High Speed (PBT) which BASF (www.basf.de/ultradur) developed especially for this company. This glassfiber-reinforced...

Nokia: Mobile Phone made from Recycled Materials only

18.02.2008 - The Finish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia (www.nokia.de) has launched a new concept for the production of a “green” mobile phone called “Remade” (picture), which is made solely from recycled materials. Metal from aluminium cans, plastics from drinking bottles and rubber from scrap tires are used....

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