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Purac: High performance lactides for the Asian biopolymer market

31.05.2013 - Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, has signed a long term supply contract for the delivery of up to 10,000 tons annually of „Puralact” lactides to a customer in Asia. „Puralact” lactides will be polymerized into high heat polylactic acid (PLA), a bioplastic made from annually renewable resources. Commercial...

ProTec Polymer Processing: Peter Theobald is new Managing Director

29.05.2013 - On April 1, 2013, Dipl.-Ing. Peter Theobald, 54, joined Christian Bennhold and Alfred Kimpel on the management team of ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH at the company´s headquarters in Bensheim, Germany. With his extensive sales experience – particularly in the Asia region – Peter Theobald is ideally...

LyondellBasell European restructuring to include HDPE unit in Germany

21.05.2013 - LyondellBasell recently announced that it will shut down a high density polyethylene (HDPE) unit in Wesseling, Germany, in the third quarter of 2013. The 100 KT per year unit is among the smallest and least efficient of the LyondellBasell HDPE units in Europe. The company has sufficient HDPE capacity...

Solvay and INEOS join forces to create a world-class PVC producer

10.05.2013 - Signature of a letter of intent to create a 50-50 joint venture with combined sales of EUR 4.3 bn Solvay and INEOS recently announce that they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to combine their European chlorvinyls activities in a proposed 50-50 joint venture. The combination would form a polyvinyl...

bvse: 16th International Conference on Recycling of Plastics on June 11th/12th - „Understanding Plastics Recycling”

06.05.2013 - „Understanding Plastics Recycling” is the motto of the 16th International Conference on Recycling of Plastics, organized by the bvse-Division for Plastics Recycling. It will be taking place in Bad Neuenahr on the 11th and 12th of June, 2013. The partner country of this year’s event is the United Kingdom,...

Tosaf opens new sales office in Spain

03.05.2013 - In the framework of further expanding its commitment in the European market, Tosaf, an international manufacturer of high quality compounds, additives and masterbatches for the plastics industry, has opened Tosaf Iberica, S.L. in Barcelona. This new company is the seventh in the row of Tosaf’s marketing...

BASF: New head of Catalysts division

03.05.2013 - Kenneth T. Lane, currently Senior Vice President, Isocyanates Europe located in Brussels, Belgium, will become President of BASF’s Catalysts division headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, effective June 1, 2013. He succeeds, Frank A. Bozich, who has decided to leave the company. More...

Lanxess: Application Development Center for Asian plastics industry opened

19.04.2013 - The specialty chemicals company LANXESS has opened a new Asia-Pacific Application Development Center for its high-tech plastics in the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park. It is run by the High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit and provides comprehensive and high-value services ranging from...

MuCell Extrusion: Nearly doubled production space in Woburn - New units able to handle higher injection pressures

17.04.2013 - MuCell Extrusion LLC has almost doubled its assembly space in 2013, with the addition of a new 6000 square foot building adjacent to its headquarters in Woburn, MA. The new building is designed for assembly and testing of its supercritical fluid hardware, which now includes units available to handle...

Arkema partners with Jayant Agro in India

15.04.2013 - Arkema and Jayant Agro have signed a joint venture agreement whereby Arkema will acquire a stake of some 25% in Ihsedu Agrochem, a subsidiary of Jayant Agro, specializing in the production of castor oil. This joint venture aims to develop castor oil production in order to provide Arkema with long-term...

Arkema: Six-month observation period against the company Kem One

11.04.2013 - On March 27th 2013, the Lyon commercial court opened insolvency proceedings with continuation of activities for a six-month observation period against the company Kem One SAS. As part of the financing of the observation period, Arkema points out that its contribution amounts to € 68.7 million. ...

Ashland: Price increase for epoxy vinyl ester resins for EMEA

02.04.2013 - Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., announced to increase the prices of its complete portfolio of epoxy vinyl ester resins in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by 100 euros per ton. This increase will take effect April 1, 2013, or at the earliest possible timing depending...

Assocomaplast: Export drives improvements for the Italian industry of plastics and rubber processing equipment

28.03.2013 - Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber) has issued its report on the sector’s performance in 2012 - based also on ISTAT foreign trade statistics - whose results are summarized...

Belgium: Flemish plastics industry implements a European voluntary commitment to reduce its energy consumption

27.03.2013 - Federplast.be (Belgian association of manufacturers of plastic and rubber articles), Flanders’ PlasticVision (Flanders’ competence centre for innovation in the plastics and rubber industry) and Sirris (Belgian collective research centre of the technological industries) started the InnEEPlas transformation...

BASF: Price increase for PU catalyst

20.03.2013 - Effective immediately or as existing contracts allow, BASF is raising prices for "Lupragen" N 100 in Europe by € 0,10 per kilogram with immediate effect or the equivalent amount in local currency. "Lupragen" N 100 (chemical name N,N-Dimethylcyclohexylamine, CAS-No. 998-94-2) is used especially as...

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