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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...

Borealis: Alfred Stern joins Executive Board

03.07.2012 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, announces the appointment of Alfred Stern as Executive Vice President for Polyolefins, effective July 1, 2012. In this capacity he will lead one of the Company’s core business groups focusing on optimising both Borealis’ commercial...

INEOS ChlorVinyls: Price decrease for suspension PVC

02.07.2012 - List prices for INEOS ChlorVinyls Suspension PVC grades have been decreased by Euro 45 per metric tonne with effect from 1st July and as contracts allow. More Information: www.ineoschlor.com

EuPC: Bernhard Borgardt re-ellected as president

22.06.2012 - Bernhard Borgardt re-ellected as president of EuPC at the EuPC General Assembly on the 1 June, 2012 during the Plastics & Composites Innovation Days 2012 in Vienna. New members were assigned to the EuPC Steering Committee as well: Ton Emans (EuPR), Tom Debusschere (EPPA), Florence Poivey (Federation...

Azelis: Thermoplastic Polymers Business sold to Gazechim Plastics

13.06.2012 - Azelis recently announced, in line with its strategy to focus on specialty chemicals and ingredients, the sale of the Thermoplastic Polymers Business Area within the Azelis Group to Gazechim Plastics who has acquired this business. This transfer means Gazechim Plastics is now managing in its entirety...

Koch-Technik: New agency in the UK and Ireland

11.06.2012 - From mid-May 2012, Staffordshire-based Geiger Handling UK Ltd. will be the sole agency in the UK and Ireland for Koch-Technik. Geiger Handling UK specialises in high-quality peripheral technology for the plastic processing industry. The company will be extending its range of products and services with...

EPRO: Best Recycled Plastic Product competition opened

08.06.2012 - The European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations (EPRO) recently declared this years Best Recycled Plastic Product competition to find Europe’s best recycled plastic product open. Since its launch in 2009 the competition has witnessed a growing number of entries and an increased...

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