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Borealis: 10 years of partnership in Europe with Ashland Distribution

31.10.2006 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com) and Ashland Distribution (www.ashland.com) are celebrating the success of their 10 year partnership in dealing with distribution customers of Borealis-produced polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) in Europe. This first pan-European polyolefin distribution partnership...

Extricom + Ohl Engineering: New PET-Recycling plant for 12,000 tonnes per annum

20.10.2006 - Extricom GmbH (www.extricom.de) and Ohl Engineering GmbH – PET Recycling Technologies (www.ohl-technologies.de) have received an order from PKR in Beselich for the installation of their second PET recycling plant. The principal underlying reasons for this choice of investment were Extricom’s years...

Van Gansewinkel acquires Plastic Herverwerking Brabant and Envirotec

19.10.2006 - Waste service provider Van Gansewinkel (www.vangansewinkel.com) strengthens its position in the recycling market through the acquisition of Plastic Herverwerking Brabant (PHB, www.phb-recycling.com), based in Waalwijk. PHB recycles various plastics waste streams, including contaminated plastics materials....

Husky opens new Vienna sales office

18.10.2006 - Husky Injection Molding Systems (www.husky.ca) has announced the opening of its new Vienna sales office. Sales activities, service management, project coordination and customer training are among the offerings at the new facility, which will serve as a gateway to Central and Eastern Europe, and will...

Basell to increase prices of its advanced polyolefin products

09.10.2006 - Basell (www.basell.com) announced shortly that it will increase prices by € 60 per tonne on its Adsyl, Adflex, Hifax and Hostacom ranges of advanced polyolefin products sold in the European, Middle East and African regions, effective immediately. “This increase is necessary due to the continued escalation...

TSM Control Systems: Redesigned gravimetric batch blender

06.10.2006 - TSM Control Systems (www.tsm-controls.com) has added even more unique features to the TSM1000 gravimetric batch blender (photo). This blender model, which can handle up to 1000kg/hr, has been redesigned to work with even the most difficult regrind. TSM understands the problems facing many customers...

hamos: PVC-free PET flakes

04.10.2006 - Clean PET flakes are a valuable raw material that may be used without difficult for high-grade quality products. But even very low amounts of PVC can contaminate the material and thereby prevent the use of the flakes for high-grade applications – such as for new PET bottles. It is difficult to separate...

Rhodia Continues its Development in Asia with the Construction of a New Polyamide Intermediates Unit

28.09.2006 - Rhodia (www.rhodia.com) has announced the construction of Hexamethylene Diamine (HMDA) unit in China, as part of its upstream integration in the polyamide chain. With an annual capacity of 60kt/p.a, the new unit, to serve the fast growing HMDA merchant market in Asia, will be operational in early 2009....

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions announces price increase for DuPont™Butacite® PVB and DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayers

25.09.2006 - DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions (www.dupont.com) announces a global price increase of ten percent for all grades of DuPontTM Butacite® polyvinyl butyral interlayer, SentryGlas® Plus, and Spallshield® composite films, effective October 1, 2006. DuPont stated this action is required due to the sustained...

DSM to build two new engineering plastic plants at Chemelot site, Geleen (NL)

20.09.2006 - Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) announces that it has decided to construct two new manufacturing facilities at its Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands. DSM is making these investments in response to excellent market growth for two of the company’s top specialty products, Stanyl® polyamide 46 and...

Rapid: New faster cleaning and maintenance granulators

19.09.2006 - Three new series of granulators, featuring an innovative new ‘open-hearted’ engineering concept that facilitates drastically faster cleaning, maintenance and inspection, forms the centrepiece of the Rapid Granulators AB (www.rapidgranulator.se) exhibit at Fakuma 2006. The new Rapid 300, 400 and 500...

Erema: New PET Recycling Technology - Ultra clean with IV like virgin

14.09.2006 - The further development of plant manufacturer EREMA´s (www.erema.at) patented VACUREMA process for the recycling of washed post-consumer bottle flake has made it possible: The company has stated that with the new "VACUREMA Multi-KT" process (Photo) the IV of PET bottle flake can be increased from starting...

LANXESS: Two ABS production lines in Tarragona back on stream after fire

13.09.2006 - The LANXESS chemical group (www.lanxess.com) has put two compounding lines for the production of ABS plastics back on stream at its plant in Tarragona in Spain. The compounding facilities were damaged in a fire on August 18, 2006, and production was temporarily disrupted as a result. "One section of...

S+S: Grey-scale sorter for colour sorting in the plastics industry

12.09.2006 - To further enhance their product range S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH (www.se-so-tec.com) is now launching a grey-scale version of their tried and tested SPEKTRUM colour separator as a lower cost option for sorting in light and dark bands. Light/dark or dark/light contrast sorting, both...

DuPont: New engineering polymers and a major milestone for DuPont™ Delrin®

08.09.2006 - Advancements in engineering polymers for innovative applications from the worlds of automotive manufacture, electrics and electronics, sport and leisure, amongst many others, are the highlights of the DuPont (www.dupont.com) exhibit at Fakuma 2006. The company will also celebrate the 50th birthday of...

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