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Styrolution: Price increases for Polystyrene

04.12.2013 - The Gross Market Price for Polystyrene (GPPS, bulk) valid as of December 1st, is increased by +30€/mt vs. November. The surcharge for HIPS is + 105 €/mt.

BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives

03.12.2013 - With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Europe:

Evonik appoints FKuR as distribution partner for its ‚Vestamid Terra‘ product line

02.12.2013 - Evonik Industries AG, High Performance Polymers Business Line, and FKuR Kunststoff GmbH announced their distribution agreement for ‚Vestamid Terra‘ during the K 2013 in Düsseldorf. With immediate effect, FKuR will market, sell and distribute Evonik’s full line of biobased polyamide ‚Vestamid Terra‘...

Arburg officially opens machine warehouse in China

02.12.2013 - Arburg officially opened its new 1,500 m² machine warehouse in China with an inauguration ceremony on 22 November 2013. Around 100 customers accepted the invitation to the Shanghai event. Following the inauguration ceremony, guests were treated to a presentation featuring four interesting applications...

Gharda plans new plant for PEEK in Panoli India

28.11.2013 - Gharda Plastics, the high performance engineering polymers division of Gharda Chemicals Limited, launched its speciality lubricious solution for industrial and business appliances, incorporating various reinforcements in G-PAEK and GAZOLE grades. This collaborative development with other industrial...

nova-Institut: Special event – “Wood- and cellulose-filled plastic granulates for injection moulding and extrusion”

27.11.2013 - 11 December 2013, Cologne, Maritim Hotel Wood flour and cellulosic fibres act as filler or reinforcement in plastics and lead to increased stiffness and strength as well as lower shrinkage and warpage. Moreover, their use leads to shortened cycle times. All this helps the industry to reduce production...

Gurit opens new company in Hungary

26.11.2013 - Gurit, a leading global supplier of Composite Materials, Systems and Engineering recently announced the opening of a new manufacturing company in Hungary. Gurit’s Composite Systems and Engineering Business Unit currently operates a tooling facility in Taicang/China, an Automotive manufacturing and...

Plastics Recyclers Europe: Recycling continues to grow steadily

26.11.2013 - Plastics Recyclers Europe confirmed steady growth of plastics recycling during its Annual Meeting 2013 which took place on the 21st and 22nd of November in Amsterdam and gathered more than 170 participants. During this event the organisation celebrated the breakthrough of 100 members and now counts...

motan-colortronic establishes a subsidiary in Brazil

26.11.2013 - During the K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf, motan-colortronic added a new subsidiary to the family – motan colortronic do Brasil LTDA in Piracicaba (São Paulo region). Contracts were signed by Beat Amrein and Jefferson F. S. Macedo (for motan-colortronic do Brasil), as well as Ulrich Eberhardt and Frank Medgyesy...

Kuraray to acquire DuPont glass laminating solutions/vinyls

26.11.2013 - Kuraray and DuPont recently announced they have signed a definitive agreement for DuPont to sell Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls (GLS/Vinyls), a part of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, to Kuraray for US$543 million, plus the value of the inventories. The sale is expected to close during the...

Phillips-Medisize: China facility registers with CFDA and receives ISO 13485 certification

26.11.2013 - Phillips-Medisize recently announced their Suzhou, China facility has registered with the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). The facility has also received ISO 13485 certification, with DEKRA being the notified body. These certifications, along with a medical device manufacturing license,...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers: Price increase in North America for specialty ethylene copolymer resins

26.11.2013 - DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers recently announced a price increase in the range of $0.10/lb. ($0.22/kg) to $0.15/lb. ($0.33/kg) in North America on all grades of “DuPont” “Surlyn”, “Elvaloy”, “Appeel”, “Fusabond”, “Bexloy”, “Entira”, “Conpol” and “Nucrel”. This increase is effective as of Dec....

Nordson BKG: Optimized water system and bigger type of pelletizer

21.11.2013 - On occasion of K-Show 2013 Nordson BKG GmbH presented an optimized "Polygonfilter"-system (2nd generation of the BKG Optigon water system), new cutter hub as well as a new bigger type of pelletizer, aiming at higher throughput rates. The new generation of the Nordson BKG water system Optigon focuses...

Nordson Kreyenborg: New polymer valve

21.11.2013 - At K-Show 2013 Nordson KREYENBORG GmbH presented its latest developments in the field of melt filtration solutions. Besides some completely new and some modified screen changers Nordson Kreyenborg showed different filter media that can be used with Nordson Kreyenborg screen changers aiming at larger...

Lanxess: Price increas for Chloroprene Rubber

21.11.2013 - Lanxess announces a global price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene Rubber (CR) of up to 180 EUR / 245 USD per metric ton. Increasing raw material and energy prices are named as the driving force. Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts and regulations, price increases will be...

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