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Magna opens new facility in Turkey

11.10.2013 - Magna International Inc. recently announced the expansion of its business in Eastern Europe with the inauguration of a new greenfield manufacturing plant in Kocaeli, Turkey. The facility is being shared by Magna’s Exteriors and Interiors, Mirrors, and Closures operating units. Company executives were...

Lanxess: Increased prices for NBR

08.10.2013 - The High Performance Elastomers (HPE) business unit of specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG has increased its prices for NBR (nitrile-butadiene rubber) globally effective October 1, 2013. The price adjustment per metric ton is EUR 100/USD 150 for NBR. This adjustment is unavoidable because the costs...

Baerlocher to produce PVC stabilizers in Turkey

04.10.2013 - Baerlocher begins construction of a new manufacturing facility in Akhisar in the district of Manisa, Turkey. The plant, which is targeted to start production end of 2014, will have a capacity in excess of 40,000 t and will produce both calcium based and lead stabilizer additive one-packs. The manufacturing...

Hellweg: New large granulator also swallows “big chunks”

02.10.2013 - Hellweg Maschinenbau has extended its 600 series granulator at the upper end. According to Hellweg the new M 1500/600 version is able to offer enormous torque due to the high stability of the entire machine housing and the heavy duty rotor, which is produced entirely from only one single block of metal...

Priamus: Automatic Valve Gate Control for Cold Runners

30.09.2013 - In hotrunner technology control systems are successfully used since many years for the automatic balancing of multi cavity molds. This is because the simultaneous filling of all cavities is a precondition for the optimum part quality. These conditions are achieved by automatically detecting the melt...

Priamus: Robust temperature sensors for the injection molding process

30.09.2013 - In order to fulfill the ever increasing requirements in the injection molding process Priamus has been extended the existing range of products with a new line of so called "Heavy Duty" cavity temperature sensors which now can also be used at mold temperatures up to 320 °C. The Priamus systems for the...

Ticona: Prices increase in Europe for „GUR“ UHMW-PE and „GHR“ VHMW-PE industrial grades

30.09.2013 - Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, announced a price increase in Europe of €0.20 per kilogram on all industrial grades of „GUR“ ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) and „GHR“ very high molecular weight polyethylene (VHMW-PE) products effective with all shipments...

DSM and Ravago partnership introduces portfolio of recycled PA compounds

24.09.2013 - Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has announced that it has expanded its partnership with the Ravago Group, a leader in distribution, resale, compounding and recycling of plastic and elastomeric raw materials. The two companies have combined DSM’s expertise in polyamide...

Celanese: Price increases for acetyl intermediates

20.09.2013 - Celanese Corporation anounced to increase list and off-list selling prices for the following products on October 1, 2013, or as contracts allow. The above price increases are in addition to the Acetic Acid and Vinyl Acetate Monomer price increases that were previously announced on August 26 and August...

Ashland: Price increases for unsaturated polyester resin, gelcoat and epoxy vinyl ester resins for EMEA

18.09.2013 - Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), is increasing the prices of its complete portfolio of unsaturated polyester resin, gelcoat and epoxy vinyl ester resins in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by 75 euros per ton. This increase will take effect October 1, 2013,...

Plastic Recyclers Europe: New study – „Plastics can be recycled to more than 60% by 2020“

17.09.2013 - A plastics recycling target of 62% is achievable by 2020. Plastics Recyclers Europe released a study showing that a higher recycling rate for plastics will create benefits for the European Union environment, economy and resource efficiency. „This study, commissioned to Bio Intelligence Service, aims...

EuPC calls on legislator to support separate collection of degradable plastic materials and ban oxo fragmentable plastics

13.09.2013 - During its 2013 Annual Meeting in Bruges the Brussels based association of plastics converters , EuPC, representing 50.000 companies in Europe informed its membership about the long awaited test results of degradable/fragmentable plastics materials affecting the quality of plastics recycling. In...

K-Tron to Operate under the Coperion K-Tron Brand

11.09.2013 - Effective October 1, 2013, K-Tron, a supplier of feeding, dosing, and pneumatic conveying equipment and systems, will operate under the brand name Coperion K-Tron. Coperion was acquired by US-based Hillenbrand, Inc. in December 2012. K-Tron has been a part of Hillenbrand’s Process Equipment Group since...

Elix Polymers: Price increase for ABS announced

10.09.2013 - Due the additional raw material increases in September Elix Polymers has announced to increase the product prices, with effect 15th of September, as follows: • „Elix“ ABS: + € 100,- / ton • „Elix“ 100 Series: + € 60,- / ton • „Elix“ 200 Series: + € 90,- / ton Current agreements will be honoured...

Styron: Price increases for polystyrene, copolymers and expandable polystyrene in Europe

03.09.2013 - Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today price increases for all polystyrene (PS), copolymer and expandable polystyrene (EPS) grades. Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, the September contract and spot prices for the products listed below will...

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