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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...

hamos: Separation of contamination from ground PVC window material

24.02.2006 - Clean PVC regrind from recycling of PVC window profiles is a valuable raw material, that can be used again for the production of PVC windows. But contamination such as by rubber from seals, polyamide, plasticised PVC, etc are problematic. Such contamination can influence the possibilities of using...

Dow to sell Superabsorbent Products Business to Degussa

15.02.2006 - Dow (www.dow.com) announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Superabsorbent Products (SAP) business to Degussa AG (www.degussa.de). Close of the transaction is dependent upon regulatory approvals. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "It was becoming increasingly...

Basell plans to close its plant in Pernis, Netherlands in mid-2007

14.02.2006 - As part of an ongoing review of the company’s manufacturing assets to assess their long-term viability, Basell is planning to close its 260 KT per year LIPP polypropylene technology plant in Pernis, The Netherlands by the middle of 2007. “It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our...

EuPR: Annual General Assembly 2005 - Elections 2006-2008

06.02.2006 - EuPR, the European Plastics Recyclers Association (www.eupr.org), held its Annual General Assembly on 2 December 2005 in Brussels. During this meeting, elections were held for the new Management Committee. The following people were (re-)elected to the Management Committee the 2006-2008 period: Mr Bernard...

Basell to increase PP and PE prices in Europe

01.02.2006 - Basell (www.basell.com) announced that it will increase prices by € 100 per tonne on all polypropylene and polyethylene grades sold in Europe effective February 1. “This increase is necessary due to the continued climb in crude oil prices since the start of the year,” said Werner Breuers, president...

Rhodia Polyamide: Price Increase for Adipic Acid

19.01.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price rise for Adipic Acid effective immediately. The new price reflects an increase of 130 € / MT in Europe and 150 USD / MT in Asia. Underlying this need for price adjustment is the unprecedented rise in the costs of energy, particularly gas, and raw materials such...

EuPC: Second Conference on REACH

10.01.2006 - Concerns of plastics converters, recyclers and compounders confirmed On 14 December 2005, EuPC (European Plastics Converters, www.eupc.org) held its second conference on the future EU Regulation on REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restrictions of Chemicals). In his welcome statement...

LEGO: Tool factory in Switzerland sold

05.01.2006 - The Swiss factory LEGO Werkzeugbau Steinhausen will remain, as it has been taken over by new owners as per 1st December 2005. The new owners consist of a Swiss consortium, which all together has the following competences: Tool manufacturer, finance/accounting and Lean management. The people behind...

FKuR: Novel transparent PLA/Polyester film for fine packaging design

21.12.2005 - The "Nature-Compounds" product range from FKuR Kunststoff GmbH (www.fkur.de) has been extended with the new Bio-Flex 467F product, an universally usable, biologically decomposable granulate for use in production of film. The advantages of the new formulation lie in the good properties in the film application,...

Krones: compact-size bottle-to-bottle recycling line for bottlers and converters

09.12.2005 - Krones (www.krones.de) is the only producer of beverage bottling lines to have mastered the entire process chain involved in the case of PET containers, extending from bottle manufacture and filling, together with the associated process steps, to bottle recycling: bottle-to-bottle recycling, turning...

Hellweg: New Mega Mills for large and heavy parts

18.11.2005 - Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG (www.schneidmuehlen.de) presented at FAKUMA 2005 the new 600 series granulator (“Mega Mill”) for the first time. The new granulators round off the product range at the top end. They are characterised by the extremely high stability of the entire machine housing. The...

Wittmann: Integrated Intelligent Drying and Conveying

17.11.2005 - WITTMANN’s (www.wittmann-robot.com) new compact DRYMAX DUAL PDC (Portable Drying Conveyor) offers intelligent drying and conveying of plastic resin to a single drying hopper and dried material to up to 2 injection molding machines. The fully integrated drying and conveying cell costs about 12% more...

Wittmann: Robot for fast removal from stack molds

08.11.2005 - WITTMANN (www.wittmann-robot.com) has introduced the servo robot series W 711 C DS specifically designed for the fast removal of plastic parts from both stack molds and 2-plate single face molds. Mechanically this robot is based on the general platform of the economically priced W 711 series with a...

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