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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...

Motan: New products on display at the Fakuma

05.09.2006 - At the 25th anniversary of the Fakuma in 2006, Motan (www.motan.com) launches a series of new product developments. The most important novelty on display is the MINICOLOR G (Photo), a gravimetric batch blender to dose masterbatch/additive components which continuously and automatically calibrates...

Petcore announces full endorsement for bottle-to-bottle and bottle-to-fiber recyclability of SIPA Smartcoat barrier technology

04.09.2006 - Petcore’s (www.petcore.org) Expert Evaluation Committee, whose mission is to determine the impact of new PET containers and additives on the quality of the recovered PET flake for recycling, has come to the conclusion that SIPA Smartcoat® technology for gas barrier enhancement , will have no negative...

Dow Europe announces price increase for copolymers products

04.09.2006 - Dow continues to encounter high raw material and energy costs with respect to Styrenic Copolymers, while demand remains strong. Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase of 150 Euro/MT for Styrenic Copolymers, including MAGNUM™ ABS and TYRIL™ SAN across Europe and the Middle East. This will be...

Hellweg: Central grinding – simple, fast, quiet

04.09.2006 - Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG (www.schneidmuehlen.de) is presenting its 260 series of granulators at Fakuma 2006. The granulators are used in plastics processing companies for central grinding of all kinds of surplus production. On account of very good heat conductivity, these granulators can also...

FKuR Kunststoff: Compostable and heat resistant injection moulding material made out of cellulose

31.08.2006 - The Biograde 300A injection moulding material developed by FKuR Kunststoff GmbH, Willich, in co-operation with Fraunhofer Institut UMSICHT, Oberhausen, is now also certified as a compostable material according to DIN EN 13 432 and DIN Certco. FKuR Kunststoff GmbH has been developing and producing...

Husky to showcase new technologies at Fakuma

30.08.2006 - Husky Injection Molding Systems (www.husky.ca) will exhibit a wide range of new purpose-built technologies at this year’s Fakuma. Husky’s exhibit will focus on several core areas, including hot runners, thinwall packaging and closures. “We’re looking forward to Fakuma as it will provide us with an...

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