Borouge inaugurated plant in China Borouge inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in China at a ceremony held at the plant in Shanghai on April 20. The new plant is...
Find your way to K 2010 To make the visitors bearings easy at K 2010 (Düsseldorf, October 28-November 3), Messe Düsseldorf...
World pultrusion conference From 8 to 9 April, more than 80 participants from Europe, the United States, China and Russia attended the 10th World Pultrusion Conference in...
Songwon extends production of antioxidants in China Songwon and Tangshan Baifu Chemical announced the start of a joint venture to manufacture and sell thioester antioxidants. The two companies...
Sabic signs agreement with KAUST Sabic signed on April 20 a long-term research and innovation agreement with King Abdullah University of...
Elegant packaging The Müller Italy dairy now employs a new packaging for its yogurt line “Crema di Yogurt”. The new decorated polypropylene cup...
An initial May LDPE offer further up Following the 50 euro/ton increases that have already passed in April in Italy’s LDPE market, there is talk about further increases...
Ecological refrigerant gas The Raca Plus Energy range of refrigerators developed by Frigosystem will soon be integrated with units up to 900 kW. This range, designed to satisfy the...
Grand opening of CHINAPLAS 2010 The 24th international exhibition on plastics and rubber industries (CHINAPLAS 2010) opened on April 19 at the Shanghai...
TI will produce BOPLA films in Italy BoPP film producer Taghleef Industries (Ti) will introduce a fully natural film range. The films will be based on NatureWorks PLA polymers...
Nubiola expands its agreement with K&M Nubiola has announced the expansion of its distribution agreement with Keyser and Mackay (K&M), a performance...
Futerro pilot unit for PLA Futerro, a 50-50 joint venture by Galactic and Total Petrochemicals, announced on March 16 the inauguration of its bioplastics production unit...
German-American cooperation Automatik Plastics Machinery, and its subsidiary in the US, Automatik, have teamed up with American Leistritz Extrusion, and helped place a...
Plastics for soccer Less than 2 months to go until the football world championship in South Africa, a further event that gives plastics a key role...
Basf repositions its pigment business Following the Ciba acquisition, Basf now has one of the broadest product pigments portfolios. After an indepth analysis of the combined operations...
DSM spreads out in Turkey DSM Composite Resins, through its subsidiary Euroresins Kompozit Ürünler (also known as Euroresins Turkey, ERT)...
Good start for Gerresheimer Gerresheimer has got off to a good start in the new financial year and set the stage for further growth in 2010. In the first quarter...
Buyers resist to high LDPE prices In Italy, the spot LDPE market has moved higher in line with the 30-50 euro/ton hike requests of sellers for April...
South American PET markets A recent PET pricing overview from ICIS reported that Brazil and Argentina saw demand increase and markets posted gains in...
Germans to East VDMA (the German plastics and rubber machinery association) highlights that the export of German plastics and rubber machines have...