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Lanxess: Price increase for rubber chemicals

17.06.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess will increase its prices worldwide for rubber chemicals supplied by the Rubber Chemicals business unit effective July 1, 2013. The increases are required to offset higher production costs. The price increases will impact the Vulkanox (antidegradant) and Vulkacit...

Styron appoints Velox as European Distributor for Medical Industry

14.06.2013 - Styron Europe GmbH and Velox recently announced the appointment of Velox as the European distributor for medical product offerings from Styron. Velox, a supplier and marketer of raw materials specialties will represent products for Styron medical applications – including „CalibreMegarad“ Polycarbonate...

Kreyenborg: Melt filtration specialist celebrates 60th anniversary

13.06.2013 - Kreyenborg looked back at 60 years on 1st April, 2013. The family-owned company started in 1953 with the trade of tubular grounding busses for lightning conductors and focused in 1957 on the construction of mixers for concentrates and hammer mills before the promising plastics industry came into...

Styron: Price increases for polystyrene and copolymers in Europe

05.06.2013 - Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe recently announced price increases for all polystyrene and copolymer grades. Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, the June contract and spot prices for the products listed below will increase as follows: STYRON™ general...

Profine: Production in India started

03.06.2013 - On 25 May 2013, profine Group inaugurated its new production site in Vadodara, India. The plant is currently running three extrusion lines that produce country specific systems to German quality standards with a capacity to an annual production level of 3,000 tonnes of profiles. "We are pleased to...

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...

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