Rubber
DuPont to increase prices

DuPont Engineering Polymers announced global price increases for its standard grades of Zytel nylon, Minlon mineral reinforced nylon and Zytel HTN ...

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VIETNAM: Plastics and rubber expo opens in HCM City

Source: Daily "Vietnam News", Hanoi; 22 Oct 2009

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VIETNAM: Gia Lai targets 125,000 ha of rubber trees by 2015

Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 21 Oct 2009

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BANGLADESH: Burgeoning rubber market puts BFIDC on sound footing

Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC) has earned more than Tk 900 million over the last seven months thanks to expansion of the domestic ...

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MALAYSIA: Dompok Suggests Open Market For Sabah's Rubber Industry

Source: Bernama News Agency, 16 Oct 2009

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New TPE study sees global demand to rise 5.9 % annually through 2013

A new market study presented by Freedonia presents industry forecasts for the international TPE markets. According to the study world demand for thermoplastic ...

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THAILAND: Govt wants rubber price at B80/kg

Source: Daily "Bangkok Post", Bangkok; 13 Oct 2009

Rubber Polyurethanes
Italian exports of plastics and rubber machinery

According to statistics of the Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association Assocomaplast, in the first semester of ...

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MALAYSIA: Malaysia won’t be net importer of rubber

Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 10 Oct 2009

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VIETNAM: Rubber export value bounces back

Source: Daily "Vietnam News", Hanoi; 9 Oct 2009

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CAMBODIA: Rubber prices rise on back of more demand

Source: Daily "The Phom Penh Post", Phom Penh; 9 Oct 2009

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IRSG publishes latest rubber statistics

The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) publishes data on production, consumption, trade and prices, covering both natural rubber and synthetic rubber, on a ...

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Solutia to upgrade Belgian facility

Solutia will upgrade its facility in Ghent, Belgium, to produce multi-layer 3.2 m wide rolls of Saflex Q series PVB sheet.

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Coperion supplies twin-screw extruders to DSM in India

DSM Engineering Plastics’s new compounding facility in Ranjangeon, India, has been equipped with ZSK Megacompounder Plus compounding extruders from Coperion ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
KraussMaffei builds new surface treatment centre

The German plastics machinery company KraussMaffei is investing around 4 million EUR in its biggest production plant, located in Allach on the outskirts of ...

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Momentive and Woco-Group introduce fibre-reinforced LSR

Momentive Performance Materials and the Woco-Group of Bad Soden, Salmünster, have introduced a new generation of jointly developed fibre-reinforced liquid ...

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Rubber industry oral history collection online

Oral history interviews with innovators and leaders of the early rubber industry collected by the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society are now ...

Rubber
Continental and Gumasol agree on supply contract

In early August the German companies Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Hanover, and Gumasol-Werke Dr. Mayer GmbH & Co. KG, Germersheim, decided that the ...

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Wacker reorganises distribution of silicone elastomers in Turkey

Wacker, the Munich-based chemical group, has restructured its silicone elastomer distribution in Turkey.

Rubber
Tri-iso expands product offerings with Rhein Chemie

Tri-iso, Inc., a US West Coast distributor of speciality chemical raw materials, is now representing Rhein Chemie Corporation’s Engineering Plastics line of ...

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Bluestar restructures production network in Italy

Bluestar Silicones has, over several years, developed a ready-to-use hot curable compounding elastomers network in Europe called ‘Mix & Fix centres’.

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A. Schulman at the Fakuma 2009

The manufacturer and distributor of engineering compounds, masterbatches and standard polymers will focus at this year’s Fakuma on new eco-conscious and ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
KraussMaffei and Eram to cooperate

KraussMaffei recently announced Eram Holding as its new sales partner for the countries around the Arabian Gulf.

Rubber Polyurethanes
AkzoNobel planning portfolio realignment

AkzoNobel announced to restructure its Performance Coatings and Specialty Chemicals portfolios with the launch of two new business units and the merger of two ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
BASF aims to double sales in Asia Pacific by 2020

BASF has outlined its strategy for Asia Pacific. Through 2020, the company aims to grow on average two percentage points faster than the Asia Pacific chemical ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Call for papers: SPE TPE conference 2010

The TPE SIG and the Akron Section of SPE invite the submission of papers for presentation at the 9th TPE TopCon 2010. The conference will take place 13-15 ...