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DuPont Packaging Materials and Technology Behind Innovative Transport Packaging Concept

06.06.2008 - The new generation of Airliner®, an insulative, inflatable shipping-case liner, is the result of a joint development agreement between DuPont (www.dupont.com) and Coldpack, headquartered in Paris, France. It provides an alternative to conventional insulation materials, such as expanded polystyrene (EPS),...

Ticona: price increases for thermoplastic resin grades worldwide

05.06.2008 - Ticona (www.ticona.com), the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation (www.celanese.com), recently announced price increases and a transportation surcharge for thermoplastic resin grades effective June 16, 2008, or as contracts allow, in North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa...

New President for EuPC at General Assembly

05.06.2008 - Bernhard Borgardt has been unanimously elected as President of European Plastics Converters (EuPC, www.plasticsconverters.eu) for two-year term beginning June 2008. He succeeds David A. Williams as EuPC President, who served for the past 6 years. Prior to his election, Bernhard Borgardt was chairman...

DuPont to Open New R&D and Production Facilities For Growing Solar Energy Market

04.06.2008 - DuPont (www.dupont.com) announced it will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry. “Through investments in materials, technology development and manufacturing, DuPont...

Erema: Greenstar WES with new BTB recycling plant for HDPE milk bottles

03.06.2008 - The middle of April this year saw the world´s first Vacurema Advanced system go into operation in the northeast of England. The system was designed by EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. (www.erema.at), the Austrian-based recycling plant manufacturer, for the recycling of HDPE...

PlasticsEurope: Jacques van Rijckevorsel elected new President

02.06.2008 - Jacques van Rijckevorsel (Photo), Member of the Executive Committee of Solvay SA, is the new PlasticsEurope (www.plasticseurope.org) President. Mr. van Rijckevorsel was elected at the PlasticsEurope General Assembly in Ferrara, Italy, and replaces John Taylor as the head of the association. Günter Hilken...

Borealis increases polyethylene and polypropylene prices

02.06.2008 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces that it will increase all polyethylene prices by EUR 80/tonne and all polypropylene prices by EUR 50/tonne as of June 1, 2008. “This increase is necessary to restore margins and to secure...

BASF to raise prices for Polystyrene in Europe

30.05.2008 - As of June 1, 2008, BASF (www.plasticsportal.eu) will raise its gross market price (GMP) for Polystyrene by €100 per metric ton. “Owing to the sharp increase in the cost of raw materials for Polystyrene in recent months, we find ourselves forced to make this unusually high price adjustment, to €1,525...

DuPont: Fluoropolymers for electrical insulation

30.05.2008 - Innovations in fluoropolymers include new products and technologies for low-loss DuPont™ (www.dupont.com) Teflon® PTFE and FEP wire constructions. A new foam grade, Teflon® FEP TE 9810, produces smaller, better dispersed and more homogenous voids compared to previous Teflon® foam grades for enhanced...

ICM: 8th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC2009 - Call for papers

30.05.2008 - After the big success of the 7th International Electronics Recycling Congress last January, the Swiss organizer ICM AG (www.icm.ch ) will hold its 8th International Electronics Recycling Congress in beautiful Salzburg in Austria. The IERC2009 will take place from 21 - 23 January 2009 in the Salzburg...

INEOS NOVA Announce Price Increase for Expandable Polystyrene (EPS)

29.05.2008 - INEOS NOVA (www.ineos-nova.com) announced recently that they are increasing the price for expandable polystyrene (EPS) by 100 Euro per tonne, effective June 1, 2008. This increase is necessary because of continuing large increases in feedstock costs and because margins in EPS have slipped to unsustainably...

New Book: ‘Energy Management in Plastics Processing’

29.05.2008 - Practical energy-saving advice for all plastics processors Plastics Information Direct, the technical publishing division of Applied Market Information Ltd. (www.amiplastics.com), has published a brand new book which could help all plastics processors to manage and reduce their energy consumption....

BASF: For China, high heels made of Terblend N

29.05.2008 - Cold temperatures, steel gratings, miles and miles of sidewalks – high heels made of Terblend® N, BASF’s (www.basf.com, www.plasticsportal.eu), ABS/PA blend, are now available on the Chinese market and ensure that spike heels (Photo) that are up to 10 centimeters tall can withstand all of these extreme...

DuPont: Decorated PBT heightens the consumer appeal of electric components

29.05.2008 - A new, safety-oriented system for the quick and simple installation of light switches and plug sockets, from Sibecx of France (Cergy-Pontoise, www.sibecx.com), features decorative front plates made of DuPont™ Crastin® PBT. The polyester resin was chosen for its functional properties as well as its...

TechnoCompound plans further expansion of LFT and engineering polymers production

28.05.2008 - Annual capacity more than doubled since 2005 Compounding specialist TechnoCompound, Bad Sobernheim/Germany, plans to further expand its production of long fibre reinforced thermoplastics (LFTs) and engineering polymers in the course of the next few years. This was the announcement made to journalists...

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