Rubber Polyurethanes
BASF with strong first half 2011

The previous year’s excellent results were exceeded.

Rubber Polyurethanes
Bayer continues positive momentum

Interim report for the second quarter of 2011

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Dow sells its global PP business to Braskem

Dow has signed a definitive agreement with Braskem on the sale of Dow’s global polypropylene business for USD 340 million. The business has total annual PP ...

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Malaysian Rubber Board land sale on track

Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 27 July 2011

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Rubber Product Exports To Hit RM 14.4 Billion In 2011

Source: "Bernama" (Malaysian National News Agency), Kuala Lumpur; 26 July 2011

Rubber Polyurethanes
Solvay to form joint venture with Sadara to build HP plant

Solvay announced that it has the intention to create a 50/50 joint venture with Sadara Chemical Company for the construction and operation of a hydrogen ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Bayer reaches China TDI manufacturing milestone

Bayer MaterialScience has successfully tested its innovative gas phase phosgenation technology at its new TDI ...

Rubber
Cabot to expand fumed silica capacity in Europe

Cabot said it will expand production capacity by 25 % at its fumed silica facility in Barry, Wales, company officials said in a statement issued on 25 July. The ...

Rubber
Durex suffer supply shortage

According to a report in the Financial Times, Reckitt Benckiser, the owner of condom maker Durex, and its Indian joint venture TTK Lig have a serious legal ...

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Tessenderlo sells its US profiles business

Tessenderlo Group announced that it has sold its subsidiary Chelsea Building Products Inc. to Graham Partners, a US-based, privately held investment company. ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Dow and Saudi Aramco Announce Joint Venture to Drive Downstream Growth through World-Scale Chemicals Project

Dow Chemical Company and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) have announced that both companies have approved the ...

Rubber
INDONESIA: Local tire producers face fierce competition

Source: Daily "The Jakarta Post", Jakarta; 21 July 2011

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
VIETNAM: Plastics industry needs USD 8.5 billion to develop

Source: Daily "Vietnam News", Hanoi; 21 July 2011

Rubber
VIETNAM: Central Highlands rubber bounces

Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 22 July 2011

Rubber
VIETNAM: First made-in-Vietnam polyester fibre roll out

Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 21 July 2011

Rubber
THAILAND: CP Group ramps up investment in rubber

Source: Daily "The Nation", Bangkok; 19 July 2011

Rubber
THAILAND: Greener plastic from sugar a first PTT and Mitsubishi in 6 billion baht venture

Source: Daily "Bangkok Post", Bangkok; 16 July 2011

Rubber
Carlisle to acquire Phoenix Dichtungstechnik

Carlisle Companies Incorporated announced on 19 July that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Phoenix Dichtungstechnik GmbH for a purchase ...

Rubber
THAILAND: PTT sets global leadership goal in bioplastics industry

Source: Daily "The Nation", Bangkok; 19 July 2011

Rubber Polyurethanes
TSE opens manufacturing site in Changzhou

TSE Industries, Inc, Clearwater, FL, USA, has opened the doors to its new 5,500 square foot manufacturing facility Changzhou TSE Rubber & Plastic Products Mfg. ...

Rubber
Global Bioenergies and Synthos cooperate to produce “bio-butadiene”

Polish Synthos S.A., and French biotech company Global Bioenergies have announced the signing of a partnership agreement to develop a new process for the ...

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Tradewinds to build rubber city in Kedah

Source: Daily "Business Times", Kuala Lumpur; 16 July 2011

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Fire destroys rubber glove factory

Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 20 July 2011

Rubber
Continental acquires Modi Tire business

Continental has acquired 100% shareholding in Modi Tyres Company Limited (MTCL), a subsidiary of Modi Rubber LTD. Further to the announcement in April, ...

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Toyo Tire to invest RM 1.2 billion in Perak

Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 19 July 2011

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Kraton and FPCC to form HSBC joint venture

Kraton and Formosa Petrochemical Corporation (FPCC) have announced their intention to form a joint venture to construct and operate a 30 kiloton HSBC plant to ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Call for papers: DKT 2012

The German rubber society (Deutsche Kautschuk-Gesellschaft e. V. – DKG) invites to the German Rubber Conference (DKT 2012), to be held from 2 – 5 July 2012 in ...

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Pioneer bioplastics pilot plant is operational

Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 13 July 2011

Rubber
VIETNAM: Rubber exports likely to hit $3 billion in 2011

Source: Daily "Vietnam Business News", Hanoi; 14 July 2011

Rubber
Rhein Chemie acquires tyre release agents business from Wacker

The Mannheim-based German company Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH has acquired the tyre release agents business of Wacker Chemie AG, Munich, as of 8 July 2011. The ...

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Ticona increases prices for polyester products

Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is increasing prices for Celanex PBT, Vandar PBT, Impet PET and Riteflex TPC-ET polyesters in ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
From ANTEC 2011

The 2011 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) of the Society of Plastics Engineers took place in Boston, May 1-5, 2011. The number of registered participants was ...

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Kuraray's Kashima plant to resume normal production

Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the scheduled resumption of normal production at the Kashima Plant (Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture).

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Kraton announces SBS price increase

Kraton announced the following price increase for its SBS and OE SBS polymers and compounds:

Rubber
Lanxess increases prices for technical rubber grades

Lanxess has increased its prices for its Perbunan and Krynac synthetic rubber ranges and its Baymod and Nanoprene products by EUR 150 per metric ton with effect ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
PHILIPPINES: JG Summit sets 2013 start of naphtha cracker

Source: Daily "The Manila Times", Manila; 4 July 2011

Rubber
Perstorp extends 2-EHA capacity

Perstorp is extending its capacity for 2-EHA in Europe as well as in Asia by establishing production at the group’s manufacturing unit in Singapore, where PIA ...

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Brabender provides IKV with laboratory mixer

Brabender GmbH & Co. KG, Duisburg, has provided the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University with a laboratory mixer for the processing ...