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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...

Rhodia Polyamide: Price increase for PA announced

13.03.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide (www.rhodia.com) announces a worldwide 120 Euro/per ton price increase for its STABAMID® Polyamide resins and salt and TECHNYL® Polyamide PA6 and PA 6,6 compounds effective immediately. On top of high global demand, raw material, energy and transportation costs continue to increase...

Krones: PET recycling material certified as food-grade

10.03.2006 - Krones recycling pilot plant now up and running For some months now, Krones AG (www.Krones.com) has been offering a compact-size PET-bottle-to-bottle recycling facility for bottlers and converters, designed to produce food-grade PET from used PET material. The prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for...

IK: Position paper about the potential of bioplastics presented

08.03.2006 - Over the last years bioplastics have aroused much interest in politics and the public, especially under environmental aspects. In its new position paper “Bioplastics Products – Chances and Potentials” the IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. (www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) answers frequent...

IK: Plastics packaging again shows growth

08.03.2006 - In 2005 producers of plastics packaging were further able to increase their production levels. The IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e. V. (Association of Plastics Packaging Producers, (www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) has announced that the industry it represents earned 10.5 billion Euros last...

J&A Plastics: New nanocomposites for packaging

07.03.2006 - What good is a top-quality product if it does not reach the end-consumer at the promised quality standard For this reason, modern packaging must not only protect against damage and soiling, but also secure against loss of vitamins, aromas, moisture, micro-organisms, etc. Furthermore, it must be easy...

Weima: New secondary granulator for processing of alternative fuels

03.03.2006 - Dutch alternative fuel processor produces high throughput with the new Weima secondary granulator, further demand and increase in turnover expected in 2006, customer support team strengthened, new primary granulator for alternative fuel processing The Dutch company VAR B.V. (www.var.nl) in Twello,...

EuPR PET Working Group: Pet Bottles should not be made from blends

01.03.2006 - EuPR Working group PET (www.eupr.org) and their associated members will in the future have to discriminate certain PET polymer blends in bottles in order to safeguard the total value of the PET recycling stream. By design, PET bottles use different polymers for their component parts. For example...

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