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New Book: High Performance Polymers

08.08.2008 - This new book "High Performance Polymers" presents the state-of-the-art polymerization, fabrication and application methods of high performance industrial polymers as well as providing fundamental information for practical engineers working in industries that develop advanced applications - industries...

Evonik: Price Increase for PMMA Molding Compounds and Sheet Products

07.08.2008 - Effective September 1, 2008, the Acrylic Polymers Business Line of Evonik Industries (www.evonik.com) will raise the prices of its PMMA molding compounds and sheet products marketed under the PLEXIGLAS® and DEGLAS® brand names. The increase, if permissible under existing agreements, will amount to €0.20...

HT Troplast / profine: Albrecht Lange new Managing Director of profine Group

05.08.2008 - The supervisory board of HT Troplast GmbH (profine Group, www.profine-group.com) has appointed Albrecht Lange (42, Photo) as Managing Director taking effect August 4, 2008. In this position, he will have global responsibility for Sales and Marketing. "We are delighted to have a very experienced and...

Windsor Kunststofftechnologie: Peter Kochs strengthens the distribution of JSW injection moulding machines

04.08.2008 - Since July 1, 2008, Peter Kochs (Photo) has been the new Account Manager JSW at Windsor Kunststofftechnologie GmbH (www.windsor-gmbh.de), the official distribution partner of JSW (Japan Steel Works Ltd.). It is his task to build up further power in the sale of JSW injection moulding machines. Peter...

Petcore: European PET bottle collection 2007 increases by nearly 20%

01.08.2008 - Petcore (www.petcore.org) announced recently that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.13m tonnes in 2007, an increase of about 20% on 2006. In 2007 just about 40% of all PET bottles in the market were collected for recycle. The overall share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET...

Capsnap Europe: New managing director for Watertek Turkey

01.08.2008 - Burhan Engin, an experienced marketing and sales manager, was appointed to be the new managing director of Watertek Turkey, a joint venture of Capsnap Europe Packaging Austria (www.capsnap.at) and Teknikplastik Turkey. By mid July the Turkish site will have received ISO 9001 and BRC/IoP certifications...

DuPont: New Singapore plant expands global manufacturing network for Vespel® parts

31.07.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) recently announced that production for its high growth DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes has begun at its newest facility in Singapore. Other production facilities for Vespel® parts and shapes are located in Utsunomiya, Japan; Mechelen, Belgium; and Newark,...

Erema to stage symposium on 'PET Strapping'

31.07.2008 - Erema (www.erema.at), the Austrian manufacturer of plastic recycling systems, and their technology partner Techno Plastic s.r.l., Castelfranco Emilia (Modena), Italy (www.technoplastic.it), are to hold a special symposium on "PET Strapping", the inline processing of PET bottle flake to make strapping...

SKZ: 'Geosynthetics Asia 2008' - Hürde 'CE-Kennzeichen' meistern

30.07.2008 - Auf der Geokunststoff-Messe "Geosynthetics Asia 2008" im Juni 2008, Shanghai/ VR China, präsentierte sich das SKZ (www.skz.de) mit seinem umfang- und hilfreichen Leistungsangebot zum Thema Geosynthetics. Alle Informationen zur CE-Kennzeichnung von Produkten, die am europäischen Markt Chancen suchen...

SKZ: 'Geosynthetics Asia 2008' - Hürde 'CE-Kennzeichen' meistern

30.07.2008 - Auf der Geokunststoff-Messe "Geosynthetics Asia 2008" im Juni 2008, Shanghai/ VR China, präsentierte sich das SKZ (www.skz.de) mit seinem umfang- und hilfreichen Leistungsangebot zum Thema Geosynthetics. Alle Informationen zur CE-Kennzeichnung von Produkten, die am europäischen Markt Chancen suchen...

DuPont: Housing made of polyphthalamide (PPA) facilitates the precise management of car air suspension systems

30.07.2008 - DuPont™ Zytel® HTN (www.dupont.com) was the material of choice for Woco Industrietechnik GmbH during the development of a pneumatic switchover unit which is exposed to high internal pressures. It is used in air suspension systems from Continental Automotive Systems. The polyphthalamide (PPA) with 35...

EMS-GRIVORY: Price increase for polyamide materials

29.07.2008 - EMS-GRIVORY (www.emsgrivory.com) will increase with effect from 1 August their prices in Europe by 7%. The products concerned are Grilamid PA12, Grilamid TR, Grivory GV/HT and Grilon PA6/66. These price increases result chiefly from the significant rises in the cost of energy, transport and raw materials...

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,...

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