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Styron: Price increases for polycarbonate and PC compounds & blends in Europe

20.08.2012 - Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe announced price increases for all CALIBRE™ polycarbonate and EMERGE™ polycarbonate compound & blends products. Effective September 1, or as existing contract terms allow, the price for these products will rise by 250 Euro per metric ton. “Our...

ICM: 12th Int. Electronics Recycling Congress 2013

13.08.2012 - The 12th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2013 will take place from January 16 – 18, 2013 in Salzburg, Austria. Over 500 experts from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present the newest information and challenges of the WEEE recycling business. The preliminary...

Styron: Price increases for polystyrene and copolymers in Europe

10.08.2012 - Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe announced price increases for all polystyrene and copolymer grades. Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, the August contract and spot prices for the products listed below, will increase as follows: • STYRON™ general...

Momentive: Price increases for base epoxy products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Region

10.08.2012 - Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (“Momentive Specialty Chemicals” or the “Company”) recently announced that it will increase the prices for base epoxy resin products, including liquid epoxy resins (LER) and solid epoxy resins (SER), in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa Region by €130-€150/tonne...

ELIX Polymers: Price increase for ABS products

09.08.2012 - Due to rapid increase in raw material costs ELIX Polymers is forced to implement a price increase with immediate effect. • ELIX® ABS, Lustran®, Novodur® (ABS) + € 150,- / ton • ELIX ® 100 Series + € 120,- / ton • ELIX ® 200 Series + € 150,- / ton Current agreements will be honoured and adjusted...

Dow Europe: Price Increase for Polyethylene Resins

08.08.2012 - Dow Europe GmbH announced a price increase for polyethylene (PE) resins across the European, Middle Eastern and African regions. Effective August 1, 2012, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH increased prices for all grades of its low-density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low-density polyethylene...

Arkema: Price increase for EVA copolymers

08.08.2012 - Arkema announced a price increase of 140 €/MT for its whole Evatane® (High Content Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Copolymer) range starting August 1, 2012. Marketed under the trademark Evatane®, Arkema´s EVA products are used in highly diverse industrial applications, including hotmelt, cable, multilayer...

BASF and SINOPEC Corp. sign Memorandum of Understanding to explore building a world-scale isononanol plant in Maoming, China

01.08.2012 - BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further strengthen their cooperation by jointly exploring the possibility of building a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The...

Styrolution inaugurates Luran® S plant in Ulsan, South Korea

23.07.2012 - Styrolution recently announced the inauguration of its Luran S plant located in Ulsan, South Korea. Luran S is the brand name for Styrolution’s styrene acrylonitrile copolymers that have been impact-modified with acrylic ester rubber, acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA). The new plant has a capacity...

Starlinger: New Representative Office in Uzbekistan opened

20.07.2012 - As of May 2012 Starlinger & Co. GmbH, Austrian manufacturer of machinery for woven plastic packaging production and plastics recycling, has opened a representative office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From there, sales and after-sales service in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan...

Kreyenborg: Continuously working screen changers increase plant productivity in blown film extrusion

20.07.2012 - Kreyenborg GmbH has equipped several plants for the production of blown film by Hosokawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft with continuous screen changers of the type K-SWE. To guarantee an absolutely smooth and reliable filter change during operation, the screen changers were provided with a separate control....

EuCertPlast: New EU Standard for post-consumer Plastics Recyclates

18.07.2012 - After two years of work plastics converters, recyclers and collectors have agreed to launch a new European wide certification and audit scheme named EuCertPlast which implements existing CEN standard 14343 on post-consumer plastics recycling. The project was conducted by EuPR and EPRO in collaboration...

Petcore + EuPR: PET collection figures for 2011 published - European PET bottle collection rate increases to 51%

17.07.2012 - PPetcore and EuPR recently announced that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.59 Million tonnes in 2011, an increase of 140 Ktes (9.4%) on 2010. For the EU 27 countries growth in collection is stable at 2%. The overall collection rate in 2011 was a record 51% of all PET bottles in the market....

Assocomaplast: Annual assembly confirmed Giorgio Colombo as president

05.07.2012 - During its annual assembly - on Thursday June 28, 2012, at CESAP in Verdellino-Zingonia, Bergamo - Assocomaplast-Italian trade association for manufacturers of plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds confirmed the Presidency of Giorgio Colombo for the period 2012-2015. President Colombo,...

DuPont: Safer, more durable cables with halogen-free flame resistant compounds

03.07.2012 - Flame-retardant cables and hoses for the highly regulated railway, marine, military and automotive industries have reached new levels of safety, durability and ease of installation with insulation and jacketing compounds based on ethylene acrylic elastomer (AEM). According to DuPont, optimized compounds...

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