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Dow to raise prices for all STYROFOAM EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM products across Europe

09.05.2006 - Dow Chemical (www.dow.com) will raise prices for all STYROFOAM* EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE products across Europe due to continued increases in raw materials. The current pricing of STYROFOAM products does not allow for sufficient margins due to continued increases in raw materials. Based on this situation,...

SABIC Europe to increase May polyolefins prices in Europe

05.05.2006 - SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com) announced today that it will increase prices in Europe by €100 per metric ton for its HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE products and by €50 per metric ton for its PP, effective 1st May 2006. “Following the recent surge in oil prices to over $70 a barrel, a stepped rise in our...

PolyOne Builds on Range for Biodegradable Polymers

04.05.2006 - PolyOne (www.polyone.com) has recently developed a range of masterbatch products for use with biodegradable resins. Building on their initial product range PolyOne now offers both color and additive masterbatch for use with starch blend biopolymers, PLA, copolyesters and other biodegradable resins....

Rhodia Polyamide: Price Rise for TECHNYL® Polyamide Compounds announced

02.05.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia.com) announces a price increase of 200 € / MT for its TECHNYL® Polyamide compounds in Europe effective May 15th, 2006. This necessary price adjustment falls in line with the pricing policy led by Rhodia to compensate for the recurring rise in raw materials, energy and transport...

Dow Europe: Additional Price Increases for Polyethylene and Polystyrene Resins

28.04.2006 - Rising raw material and energy costs for polyethylene and polystyrene production are placing pressure on polyethylene and polystyrene resins producers. Based on these conditions, Dow Europe GmbH is announcing further price increase across the European region for all polyethylene and polystyrene resins....

DSM: price increase on unsaturated polyester resins and gelcoats products

28.04.2006 - DSM Composite Resins (www.dsmcompositeresins.com), Europe’s largest UP resin producer, will increase prices on all its unsaturated polyester resin and gelcoat products for shipments on or after the 1st of May 2006. All unsaturated polyester resin and gelcoats products except vinyl ester resins will...

NOVA Innovene: Polystyrene Price Increase for May

28.04.2006 - NOVA Innovene announced a price increase of 70 Euro per metric tonne for all Polystyrene (PS) products effective May 1st, 2006. The price increase is necessary to recover increasing feedstock costs which are being pushed up by record crude oil prices.

BASF and Toray start up PBT plant in Kuantan, Malaysia

24.04.2006 - Toray BASF PBT Resin Sdn. Bhd., a 50-50 joint venture between BASF Aktiengesellschaft (www.basf.com), Germany, and Toray Industries Inc., Japan (www.toray.co.jp), has successfully started commercial production on schedule at its newly built world-scale polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) plant at BASF’s...

EuPR: Concern about PlasticsEurope Study on Waste Management

21.04.2006 - The European Plastics Recyclers (www.eupr.org) are furious with the plastics raw material suppliers according to Bernard Merkx (EuPR President). The release of their “green book” contains questionable data on plastics recycling. The figures appear to be expressing a percentage of plastics waste for...

PlasticsEurope + EuPC: Materials suppliers and converters form common agenda

13.04.2006 - The EU - wide national networks of PlasticsEurope (www.plasticseurope.org) and the European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC, www.eupc.org) met together for the first time on Tuesday 28th March in London at the British Plastics Federation´s offices. Involving some forty representatives , the day-long...

SABIC Europe: price increase for PP Automotive grades

29.03.2006 - The PP Automotive business unit of SABIC Europe (www.sabic-europe.com) announced today that it will increase the structural element of polypropylene pricing for all PP Automotive grades in Europe by 50 €/ metric ton as per 1st April 2006. This structural increase will be applied on top of the price...

bioplastics magazine: New Publication for bioplastics

22.03.2006 - Bioplastics, i.e. plastics from renewable sources and bio-degradable (compostable) plastics are advancing fast. With the new special interest magazine called "bioplastics magazine" a new publication is now available dedicated specially to this topic. bioplastics magazine is issued only in english...

WRAP: New Mobile Plastics Shredder Receives WRAP Funding

17.03.2006 - A new project funded by WRAP, (the Waste & Resources Action Programme, www.wrap.org.uk), is aiming to increase plastics recycling capacity in the UK by trialling the shredding and collection of commercial and industrial rigid plastics using a mobile shredding unit. Axion Recycling Ltd has received...

PETnology Forum Europe 2006: Summit meeting of the beverage and packaging industry

16.03.2006 - For the first time, Barbara und Dr. Otto Appel, the organizers of the PETnology Forum, invite to a summit meeting of the beverage and packaging industry. The following people have confirmed to attend the “heavyweight round”: • Thomas Stadlmayr, Adelholzener Alpenquellen, Plant Manager • William...

Borealis to close HDPE plant in Norway

14.03.2006 - In a meeting today, the Board of Borealis AS (www.borealisgroup.com) agreed to close the Borealis high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Bamble, Norway. The Board recommends that the Supervisory Board of Borealis AS concludes to close the 110,000 tonnes per year plant in 2006. “Our aim is to now...

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