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Dow Building Solutions to increase prices for all STYROFOAM EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM products across Europe

28.07.2006 - Due to continued increases in raw material prices, Dow will raise prices for all STYROFOAMTM EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM products across Europe, effective September 1, 2006. "The current pricing of STYROFOAMTM products does not allow for sufficient margins due to continued increases in key raw material...

Petcore: PET collection figures for 2005 published

26.07.2006 - European PET bottle recycling exceeds expectations Petcore (www.petcore.org) announced shortly that European post-consumer PET collection rates reached 796,000 tonnes in 2005, a 15.1% increase[1] over the previous year. The increase in PET collection continues, by far, to exceed growth in consumption....

Dow Europe announces price increase for polyethylene resins

25.07.2006 - Raw material and energy costs related to the production of polyethylene have reached unprecedented levels. At the same time, Dow continues to experience strong demand for polyethylene resins. Based on these conditions, Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase across the European region for all...

SABIC Europe: Boy Litjens appointed new CEO

10.07.2006 - SABIC is pleased to announce that Boy Litjens has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com), effective as of September 9, 2006. In this role, he will succeed Frans Noteborn, who will retire after having led SABIC Europe as CEO since...

B+B: Highly efficient PET recycling

28.06.2006 - PET recycling through innovative and highly efficient plant concept, cost reduction through preliminary cleaning, classification of the light fraction, intensive wet scrubbing and mechanical drying Separation of contaminating material such as labels, adhesives, sand, etc represents an important task...

ICM: 6th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC2007 - Call for papers

26.06.2006 - From 17-19 January 2007, the 6th International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC) will be held in Hamburg, Germany. More than 300 delegates from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present the newest information and challenges of the WEEE recycling business. The preliminary...

GE- Plastics and PetroChina agree to Cooperate on Polycarbonate Production in China

19.06.2006 - GE (www.geplastics.com) and PetroChina Company Limited (www.petrochina.com.cn/english/index.htm) announced shortly that they would cooperate by creating a world-scale polycarbonate (PC) resin manufacturing joint venture in China. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, PetroChina Company...

Quadrant: Price Increase for Stock Shapes in Europe

13.06.2006 - Quadrant Engineering Plastics Products (EPP, www.quadrantplastics.com) is set to introduce a price increase of up to 8,5 per cent, depending on the kind of product, for its stock shapes in General Engineering Plastics (GEP – like PA-Cast, PA extr, POM, PET), Advanced Engineering Plastics (AEP) and its...

DuPont: Packaging & Industrial Polymers adjusts resin prices

12.06.2006 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP, www.dupont.com) Europe, Middle East and Africa announces a price increase of 0.15 Euro/kg for all its grades of Appeel®, Bynel®, Elvaloy®, Fusabond®, Selar® PA, Surlyn® and Conpol® resins, effective June 15th 2006 or as customer contracts allow. The reasons...

DuPont: New Modifier Enhances Performance of PE-based Recycle Waste Streams

09.06.2006 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers has launched DuPont™ Fusabond® E EC-603D (www.fusabond.dupont.com), a unique compatibilizer for users of polyethylene- (PE-) based recycle streams. This proprietary copolymer improves both product performance and production efficiencies, while reducing costs for...

Weima: Shredding technology for automotive recycling

08.06.2006 - WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH (www.weima.com) offers a variety of innovative solutions for the shredding of vehicle parts in plastic, rubber and composite materials. This equipment is suitable both for reject parts and production waste from component production as well as for corresponding vehicle parts from...

IK: Plastics drums and canisters burdened by increased costs of energy and freight

07.06.2006 - The members of the sector group drums and canisters in the IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungeen e.V. (Industrial Association of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers, www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) find themselves under enormous cost pressure due to risen prices of energy and freight as well as of...

S+S: New metal separator RAPID VARIO PRIMUS

29.05.2006 - Separation mechanism - rotates to suit any requirement / In use since end of 2005 S+S Separation and Sorting Technology (www.se-so-tec.com) has completely redesigned its well-known RAPID COMPACT metal separator. The result is the RAPID VARIO PRIMUS which retains all the well proven features of its...

Rhodia Polyamide: Worldwide price rises for Polyamide 66 Intermediates and Stabamid® Polymer Range

23.05.2006 - In response to current market forces, Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia.com) announces price increases effective June 1st, 2006 of 150 € / MT in Europe, 150 US$ / MT in Asia and Latin America and 10 cents per pound (lb) in North America for its Polyamide 66 Intermediates and STABAMID® range of polymers....

Rhodia Polyamide: New Polymerization Unit in South Korea

11.05.2006 - Rhodia (www.rhodia.com) has announced the construction of a polymerization unit on its integrated production platform in Onsan (South Korea). With an annual capacity of 48,000 tonnes, the unit will start polyamide production at the end of 2007. The new unit, representing an investment of almost euro...

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