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BASF reduces production worldwide - Massive decline in demand in key industries

20.11.2008 - BASF (www.basf.com) is taking measures to avoid the creation of overcapacities as a result of a massive decline in demand. The company is temporarily shutting down around 80 plants worldwide. In addition, BASF is reducing production at approximately 100 plants. This was already announced for polystyrene...

Brückner: Technology Merger - Film Stretching Lines and Cast Film Technology from the One Supplier

19.11.2008 - Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG (www.brueckner.com) has acquired the main product range of Brückner Formtec GmbH (headquarters in Siegsdorf, Germany). This measure takes effect as from 1st January 2009 and ensures that in future, not only film stretching lines but also equipment for the manufacture...

Krones: Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant for Bangladesh

19.11.2008 - The first bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant using the Krones (www.krones.com) process is being built in Bangladesh. The Managing Director, Sk. Bashir Uddin, the visionary entrepreneur now heading the broadly diversified Akij Group of his deceased father Akij Uddin, anticipates tangible cost advantages...

Erema: High-strength PET strapping from post consumer PET flakes with new strapping technology

18.11.2008 - The specialist symposium on "PET Strapping" held jointly by Erema (www.erema.at), the Austrian manufacturer of plastic recycling systems, and their Italian technology partner Techno Plastic s.r.l. (www.technoplastic.it), on 27 and 28 October 2008 at Erema´s headquarters in Ansfelden generated enormous...

Gammaflux: Hot runner temperature control systems with integrated sequential valve gate controllers and overfeed monitoring function

17.11.2008 - Gammaflux Europe GmbH (www.gammaflux.de) has now integrated into its high-performance hot runner temperature control systems a sequential valve gate controller (SVGC). Designed for use with hot runner systems with needle valve nozzles, the SVGC opens and closes each nozzle individually and independently...

Momentive: New highly transparent LSR types for automotive LED lens systems

12.11.2008 - Momentive Performance Materials (www.momentive.com) presents a new line of highly transparent liquid silicon rubber (LSR) for innovative optical applications. These new materials are characterised by their high transparency (up to 95%), low opaqueness and excellent physical stability. Therefore the...

Summary: The 13th International Polyester Recycling Symposium, held on the 1st of October 2008 in Bad Oeynhausen

27.10.2008 - The 13th International Polyester Recycling Forum from Dr. Thiele Polyester Technology (www.polyester-technology.com) was held this year on the premises of Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH (www.gneuss.com) in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. This annual forum is normally held in hotels in various locations around...

LANXESS: Petroflex to become a wholly owned subsidiary

21.10.2008 - The tender offer by specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) for the remaining shares of Petroflex S.A. in Brazil has been met with great interest. Under the public tender offer to the minority stockholders LANXESS has acquired a further 27 percent of Petroflex shares, giving it a total...

BASF to reduce its worldwide caprolactam production

21.10.2008 - Since the end of September, BASF (www.basf.com, www.plasticsportal.eu) has reduced its worldwide production of caprolactam to about 65 percent. The reason for this measure is the high cost of raw materials and energy as well as the unsatisfactory market demand. This decision involves production at...

i-Mold: Sprue adjuster makes runner systems flexible

20.10.2008 - With an in the truest sense of the word direction-giving innovation, the firm of i-mold GmbH & Co. KG (www.i-mold.de) has now made the operation of multicavity and family moulds considerably easier: the world´s first of its kind, this new development – a sprue adjuster – enables to change the direction...

pp-mid: New compound - Laser produces electrically conductive structures

15.10.2008 - Global innovation in the form of a new polypropylene (PP) based compound allows injection moulded interconnect devices (MID) to be produced by an altogether new method and much more simply than before. Invented by Peter Putsch, the new compound provides the novel feature of a carbon-based conductivity...

DuPont™ Zytel® nylon used for first polymer oil pan module adopted for serial-production cars

15.10.2008 - For the first time in automotive history, an oil pan module made from a thermoplastic polymer is now used for serial-production cars. Working in close cooperation with the automotive supplier Bruss and DuPont (www.dupont.com), Daimler has achieved a genuine breakthrough by developing a modular design...

Gammaflux: Substantial Price Reductions on Hot Runner Controllers

14.10.2008 - At the 2008 Fakuma trade fair, Gammaflux Europe GmbH (www.gammaflux.de) of Wiesbaden/Germany announced substantial price cuts on all its hot runner temperature controllers. In the case of the company´s largest and most powerful models, the TTC high-performance controller line-up, the reduction lies...

BASF: First antimicrobial BASF plastic for bacteria-free surfaces

13.10.2008 - BASF (www.basf.com, www.luran-s.com) is now offering a plastic that has the property of killing microbes. This material belongs to the specialties found in the styrene plastic product line. It goes by the name Luran® S BX 13042 and is currently the only ASA (acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate copolymer)...

DuPont Engineering Polymers announces price increases

10.10.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announces price increases for its thermoplastic resins in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to be effective on November 1, 2008 or as contracts allow. • The price of DuPont™ Delrin® acetal resin will increase by 0.10 Euro/kg. • The price of DuPont™...

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