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Bayer MaterialScience builds new manufacturing facility for polyurethane raw materials in India

27.03.2009 - Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.de) is to invest EUR 20 million in a new aromatic and aliphatic polyisocyanate manufacturing facility in India as part of its strategy to grow its business in the country and strengthen its position as a market leader in the supply of polyurethane raw...

SABIC Europe to increase PE price by 80 euro/mt

27.03.2009 - SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com) announced recently that it will increase in Europe the price for deliveries from April of all SABIC LD, LLD and HDPE materials by 80 euro/mt. "Due to the global economic downturn, at the end of last year we saw a steep decline in global polymer prices, including...

BASF: Electrically conductive plastic with nanotubes being used by Bosch

27.03.2009 - As a first, BASF (www.basf.com) is launching a plastic containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) onto the market. This material is Ultraform® N2320 C, a polyoxymethylene (POM, also: polyacetal) that, thanks to the novel additives, acquires a high level of electric conductivity without much of a decrease in...

Grammer reacts to substantial order decline with workforce reduction

26.03.2009 - With elimination of a total of 227 jobs at its locations in the Amberg region, the reaction of GRAMMER AG (www.grammer.com), producer of components for cars and commercial vehicles, to the worldwide decline in demand of supplier products is now also effecting Germany. These measures were necessary to...

Balda: Increase in turnover – negative result due to high depreciations

26.03.2009 - The Balda Group (www.balda.de) increased its turnover at 24.0 million euros or 11.2 percent to 238.0 million euros in the financial year 2008 in the continued operations (previous year: 214.0 million euros). The continued operations of the plastic specialist and mobile phone components supplier comprise...

Dow Europe GmbH Announces Price Increases for Polyethylene Resins

26.03.2009 - Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) is announcing a price increase across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions for PE resins, based on the accumulated costs for raw materials that the company is experiencing and the need to restore its margins. Effective April 1, 2009, or as contract...

BASF temporarily idles steam cracker in Ludwigshafen

26.03.2009 - BASF (www.basf.com) will idle the smaller of its two steam crackers at its site in Ludwigshafen due to continuing weak demand. The temporary shutdown of the cracker, which has an annual capacity of 220,000 metric tons of ethylene, is planned for the middle of April and will last at least three months....

LyondellBasell to Close Chocolate Bayou Olefins

25.03.2009 - LyondellBasell Industries (www.lyondellbasell.com) will permanently close its Chocolate Bayou olefins complex near Alvin, Texas, by Aug. 4, 2009. The plant has been out of service since mid-December and the company announced on Feb. 12 plans to indefinitely idle the unit and began the process of reducing...

Hekuma: Klaus Wanner New Director of Sales

25.03.2009 - On 1 March 2009 Mr. Klaus Wanner (Photo) started as the new Director of Sales HEKUMA GmbH (www.hekuma.com). He succeeds Bernd Bruckert as Director of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Wanner studied machine building in Brunswick and Munich. After receiving his engineering degree he began work as a Project Engineer...

Mann+Hummel ProTec: Precisely dosed for high quality fleece fabric

25.03.2009 - Process-stabilised dosing of all components directly during the manufacturing process – that is one of MANN+HUMMEL ProTec’s core competencies. The fleece manufacturer RKW Gronau relies on exactly this competence in its new nonwoven fabric plant. The SOMOS® Gramix S9 gravimetric dosing and mixing system,...

Gneuss: Large area Filtration Systems for PVC film, PET Recycling and cable compounds

24.03.2009 - Gneuss Kunststofftechnik (www.gneuss.com) has announced the delivery of a number of large area Rotary Filtration Systems for the high throughput rate requirements. Production of PVC film A process - constant Filtration System type RSFgenius 330 will in the near future replace a duplex candle filter...

Oregon-Based Plastics Recycler reclaims Synthetic Crude Oil from Unwanted Plastic

24.03.2009 - Agri-Plas ships first batches of crude oil to refinery In the latest showing of Oregon’s entrepreneurial and environmental prowess, Agri-Plas (www.agriplasinc.com), an Oregon-based plastics recycler, is the first company in the nation to convert unwanted and typically unrecyclable agricultural plastics...

NatureWorks: No Technical Barrier for Recycling Plastic Bottles Made From Plants

20.03.2009 - Following an extensive analysis of current technology NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com) concludes that automated systems being used today in the recycling industry are capable of sorting natural plastic bottles from other plastic bottles with an accuracy approaching 100 percent. This finding...

DuPont: L’Oréal Professionnel adopts DuPont™ Surlyn® for the caps of its new hair styling range

20.03.2009 - The coloured, translucent caps of L’Oréal’s ‘play ball anti-frizz fizz’ and ‘play ball wax smoothie’ hair styling products are moulded from DuPont™ Surlyn® (www.dupont.cm), selected for its high transparency and ability to form thick-walled parts with uneven thicknesses. The ‘play ball’ range from L’Oréal...

Wittmann Battenfeld opens sales office in Budapest

19.03.2009 - The Wittmann Group continues to extend the scope of its activities in Hungary. On 1st March 2009, Wittmann (www.wittmann-battenfeld.com, www.wittmann-robot.hu) opened its new sales office in Pilisszentiván on the outskirts of Budapest. This represents a major step in Wittmann Battenfeld’s determination...

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