The 2009 Frost & Sullivan European Product Innovation of the Year Award in the field of high performance polymers for electronics was presented to DSM ...
Effective 15 March 2010, or as contract terms permit, Evonik will increase prices for all polyurethane additives.
Zeon Corporation is investing USD 1 million to improve production procedures at its acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) production facility in Tokuyama, Japan. ...
Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 26 Jan 2010
When Rubber Tech China, held together with Reifen China closed its doors a total number of 7,183 visitors have come to this important meeting platform for the ...
The Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance (SPFA) has added an OSHA Compliance Training Seminar to its Spray Foam 2010 Conference & Expo, which will take place ...
With immediate effect, or as contract terms allow, BASF will be increasing its prices for diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and ...
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 21 Jan 2010
Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 18 Jan 2010
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 25 Jan 2010
Classic Sleep Products, Jessup, Md., has filed a Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, seeking approval of the sale of ...
Amerityre announced that it has notified Nasdaq of its intent to file its Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 25 January 2010 to delist the ...
Wanhua marked the opening of its new Wanhua Bajiao Portside Industrial Park in Yantai with an official opening ceremony on 6 January 2010.
The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman announced the creation of a new, China-based, joint venture with Jurong Ningwu Chemical Co. Ltd, to research, develop, ...
On January 18, 2010 Kraton announced a general price increase in Europe, Africa and the Middle East of EUR 100 /MT across all markets and end uses, for its SBS ...
Royal DSM N. V. and Shaw Industries Group, Inc. announced that DSM has acquired full control of the PA6 polymerisation facility of Nylon Polymer Company LLC ...
Eastman Chemical has completed the expansion of its Regalite hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin facility in Middelburg, the Netherlands. With this expansion, the ...
At the beginning of January 2010, speciality chemicals supplier Cognis opened an affiliate in Selangor, Malaysia. Cognis Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is a wholly owned ...
iSmithers & Smithers Rapra have issued a call for papers for the 13th International Conference on thermoplastics elastomers TPE 2010. The conference will take ...
Effective 1 February 2010, or as contract terms allow, Chemtura will increase off list pricing for BA-59P(R), HBCD (all grades of CD-75P(R)and SP-75(R)), ...
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has increased the export price of tyre products from January 2010. The price increase applies to all tyre products for passenger ...
Effective 15 January 2010, or as contract terms permit, Dow Polyurethanes, a business group of Dow Chemical, will increase prices in the Middle East, Africa and ...
PolyMirae (PMC), a joint venture between Daelim and LyondellBasell Industries, has successfully started the operation of LyondellBasell’s Metocene ...
At the Interplastica, the 13th international trade fair for plastics and rubber, from 26 – 29 January 2010 in Moscow, Hennecke GmbH will mainly focus on the ...
Eliokem announced a worldwide price increase for its Pliocord vinyl pyridine latex of USD 150 per tonne and for its Wingstay range of antioxidants effective 1 ...
The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corporation announced the creation of a new, China-based, joint venture with Jurong Ningwu Chemical Co. Ltd, to research, ...
Amerityre Corporation, a manufacturer of polyurethane flat proof tyres, announced that it has secured sales to a major OEM manufacturer of track systems for ...
Following the introduction of the BASF corporate brand for European polyurethane sites, the next step is to change the names of Elastogran companies. For ...
Wacker Asahikasei Silicone Co., Ltd. recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The company, headquartered in Tokyo and with a production facility in Akeno, was ...
The companies BASF, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Philips and Aixtron today confirmed that they had received commitment for funding of the new joint “TOPAS ...
Source: Daily "The Phom Penh Post", Phom Penh
Ineos Nova announced today that prices for all Polystyrene (PS) products in Europe will increase by EUR 185.00 per tonne with immediate effect.
Kraton announces a general price increase in North America of USD 330/MT or 15 cents per pound across all markets and end uses, for all its SIS and SIBS ...
Effective 5 January 2010, or as contract terms allow, Dow Europe GmbH will increase its prices by EUR 170.00 per tonne for all general purpose and high impact ...
On 23 December PolyOne Corporation announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of New England Urethane, Inc. (NEU).
On 22 December 2009 Kraton announced the closing of its initial public offering of 10,294,118 shares of its common stock at a price of USD 13.50 per share.
Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase for polyethylene resins across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions.
Effective December 22, 2009, Eliokem announced a price increase of up to 25 INR/kg (= ca. 0, 37 EUR/kg) depending on the grade for its Chemigum bale ...
On 7 December 2009, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has granted the approval on Yantai Wanhua Polyurethanes Co., Ltd.'s plan to remove ...
Stepan Company will raise list and off-list pricing effective 15 January 2010 for the following items. According to the company, these increases are necessary ...
On 21 December 2009, Recticel announced it has reached an agreement to sell its remaining car window encapsulation activities to the Group Strazzante – an ...
Patrick Thomas, CEO of Bayer MaterialScience (BMS), has announced support for a UNEP call for a common approach to measuring the carbon footprint of buildings ...
Effective from 1 January 2010, the German company RECA Kunststoffe GmbH will trade under its new name, RECA Plastics GmbH.
The bankrupt US chemicals maker Chemtura has agreed to sell its PVC additives business to New York-based private equity firm SK Capital Partners through a ...
Effective 1 January 2010, LyondellBasell has increased prices on all of its polyethylene and on all of its polypropylene grades by EUR 100.00 per tonne in Europe.
Source: "Daily News", Colombo; 1 Jan 2010
Source: Daily "VietnamPlus", Hanoi; 28 Dec 2009
Source: Daily "The Financial Express", Dhaka, through Xinhua News Agency; 30 Dec 2009
CSM announces that its subsidiary Purac will start with the construction of a lactide plant in Thailand to produce components for bioplastics.