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United States: PET recycling rate up for second straight year

01.03.2007 - NAPCOR and APR Report Increased Rate and Record Volume of Recycled PET Containers The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced at the end of 2006 a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling rate of 23.1% and a...

Teijin: Price increase for polycarbonate resin Panlite®

28.02.2007 - Effective March 12th, 2007 Teijin Kasei Europe B.V. (www.teijin.nl) will increase the prices for the polycarbonate resin Panlite® product range for sales within Europe by 0.25 Euro/kg.

Dow Europe announces price increase for Polycarbonate Products

28.02.2007 - Given the continued increase of raw materials and energy costs and the sustained pressure on margins, Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) is announcing a price increase across the European and the Middle-Eastern region for all its Polycarbonate products. Effective March 1st 2007, or as contract terms allow,...

EPDC: PP pipeline from Amsterdam/Antwerp to the Ruhr Area cancelled

22.02.2007 - EPDC BV (www.epdc.eu) will not pursue plans to build a propylene pipeline connecting the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp with the German Ruhr area. Rising project investment costs have made the proposition uneconomical. Project costs have been impacted by escalating steel line pipe prices, a tight pipeline...

SABIC: Saudi Kayan awards two Contracts for the Construction of Phenolics and Polycarbonates Plants

16.02.2007 - SABIC affiliate, SAUDI KAYAN, has signed two letters of award with the first contract being awarded to TECNICAS REUNIDAS GROUP to construct a Phenolics Plant, to produce 240 kta of Bis-Phenol A. The second contract was awarded to DAELIM Industrial Co, Ltd. to construct a Polycarbonate (PC) plant to...

Bioplastics: New Biopolymer Database

13.02.2007 - During the last 10-15 years a lot of projects started in the field of Biopolymers. After some difficulties in the past, today the interest into these materials is very high and the producers report about a booming demand. Unfortunately, only very little qualified information about these materials is...

Weima: Shredding of Bulky Plastic Containers

09.02.2007 - WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH (www.weima.com) has developed a new version of the WLK 12 single-shaft shredder for the size reduction of bulky plastic containers and parts with thin gauge wall thicknesses like totes, barrels, drums, tanks, etc. The compact design of the machine includes a new press-down device...

BASF to raise production capacity for Ultraform® in Ludwigshafen

09.02.2007 - BASF (www.basf.com) is expanding the production capacity for its engineering plastic Ultraform® at the Ludwigshafen site. The expansion from roughly 41,000 to 55,000 metric tons per year will be completed in the first quarter of 2008. “Thanks to this increase in capacity, we can grow along with our...

Koch-Technik: Compact small conveyor for granulate or regrind

08.02.2007 - A weight of just 4.8 kg and a height of 43cm mean that Koch Technik’s (www.koch-technik.de) MIKO is one of the lightest and smallest compact conveyors on the market. It is the ideal solution for supplying machines from adjoining containers with the smallest amounts of granulate or regrind. The compact...

bioplastics magazine: Full search online archive now online

08.02.2007 - bioplastics magazine, the only magazine for bioplastics, i.e. plastics from renewable sources and bio-degradable (compostable) plastics has now installed a full search online archive, which is free for everyone to test until mid-March: www.bioplasticsmagazine.com.

LANXESS plasticizers for toy and food contact applications with FDA-Approval

08.02.2007 - Chemicals group LANXESS (www.lanxess.com) has received the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its plasticizer Mesamoll® II. This approval covers its use in products that come into contact with aqueous based foodstuffs. The universal plasticizer alkylsulfonic phenyl ester is...

SABIC: Saudi Kayan signs contracts for new PP and LDPE plants

02.02.2007 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC, www.sabic.com, www.sabic-europe.com) affiliate, the Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company (SAUDI KAYAN) signed Letters of Award with two companies on January 24, 2007 for the construction of new Polypropylene (PP) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plants at its...

Dow Announces Price Increases of its Epoxy Blends in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent

01.02.2007 - Effective 1 February 2007, or as contract terms allow, Dow Epoxy (www.dow.com) will increase the price for its D.E.R.™ 300 series epoxy blends (based on Bisphenol F) by 150 Euro / MT in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. Customers interested in learning more about the price...

SABIC Europe: Strengthening of polymers sales organization

31.01.2007 - In addition to its existing strong local sales office network, SABIC Europe (www.sabic.com, www.sabic-europe.com) has established a dedicated organization to act as a single interface with international and selected large polymers customers. Based in SABIC Europe’s Head Office in Sittard, The Netherlands,...

LANXESS expands polyamide plant in Uerdingen

26.01.2007 - The Semi-Crystalline Products business unit (SCP) of the LANXESS (www.lanxess.com) chemical group has expanded its polyamide production in Uerdingen. An existing production line has been extended by adding further processing stages, enabling extra annual production of around 20,000 tons of polyamide...

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