Kuraray has announced that it will increase prices of its Septon and Hybrar elastomers effective 1 July 2010.
Hilti Deutschland GmbH makes use of Kraiburg TPE materials for the components that go into its tools. Kraiburg TPE custom-developed a soft formula for a novel ...
Cognis Holding Luxembourg S.à r.l., controlled by Permira Funds, GS Capital Partners and SV Life Sciences, signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell 100 % ...
Lanxess is launching a series of international rubber conferences. The kick-off event is the rubber conference in Macau, China, on 28 and 29 June 2010. Similar ...
Source: Daily "Vietnam Business News", Hanoi; 26 June 2010
Lanxess will increase its prices effective 1 July 2010 for chloroprene rubber Baypren worldwide. The price adjustment per metric tonne comprises up to EUR 650.00.
Source: Daily "The Phom Penh Post", Phom Penh; 25 June 2010
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 25 June 2010
Source: Daily "Business Times", Kuala Lumpur; 23 June 2010
Source: "Daily News of Vietnam", Hanoi; 20 June 2010
Source: Daily "Khaleej Times", Dubai; 22 June 2010
Source: Daily "Lanka Business Online", Colombo; 18 June 2010
Source: Daily "The Philippine Star", Manila; 20 June 2010
Source: Daily "The Phom Penh Post", Phom Penh; 21 June 2010
Dow Chemical and BASF received a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award at a ceremony held at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, D.C. The two ...
Albemarle Corporation is building a state of the art kilo lab in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. The facility will give Albemarle's European customer base convenient ...
Kraton Polymers LLC announced a general price increase in Europe, the Middle East, and Afric (EMEA) of EUR 200.00 per tonne for its SIS and SIBS polymers across ...
Source: Daily "Business Times", Kuala Lumpur; 19 June 2010
Source: "Bernama" (Malaysian National News Agency), Kuala Lumpur; 18 June 2010
Source: Daily "Lanka Business Online", Colombo; 16 June 2010
Bianor has extended its partnership with Japanese customer Makita.
Biesterfeld Plastic GmbH from Hamburg, Germany, announced that it will now distribute ExxonMobil Chemical’s Santoprene TPVs and Vistamaxx propylene-based ...
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI), of the American Chemistry Council, has opened registration for the Polyurethanes 2010 Technical Conference, in ...
SKC Inc. has so much going on at its Covington manufacturing plant that it recently celebrated both a groundbreaking and a ribbon cutting on one day. Local ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced an voluntary recall of an IKEA mattress and is warning consumers to stop using them immediately ...
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is strengthening its position in Asia by building a new unit in Bangalore, India, for an investment of SEK 100 million (EUR 10.3 ...
KraussMaffei Technologies India Ltd. was recently set up in Pune, India.
Source: Daily "Khaleej Times", Dubai; 15 June 2010
Chemtura has opened a new Application Development Center (ADC) in the Nanjing Economic & Technological Development Zone, serving as the company's technical ...
Lanxess and the Taiwanese TSRC Corporation will enter into a 50:50 joint venture in China called Lanxess-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd.
Bayer MaterialScience LLC recently officially unveiled its EcoCommercial Building Conference Center in Pittsburgh. This solar-powered, net-zero-energy, ...
Evonik Industries’ Coatings & Additives Business Unit will raise the selling prices for isophorone derivatives up to 10 %, effective 1 July 2010 in all ...
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. recently announced that its cumulative deliveries of lavatory modules for the Boeing 737 airliner have reached 5,000 units.
The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society is accepting nominations for the following six Science and Technology Awards for 2011: The Charles ...
The Inorganic Materials Business Unit of Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany, is increasing prices for its carbon black rubber grades Corax, Durex, Ecorax & Purex ...
Huntsman will increase prices in Europe for its polyetheramine, ethyleneamine and carbonate products, as listed below. The increases will be effective 15 June ...
Kraton Polymers LLC announced a general price increase in the Asia Pacific region of USD 200.00 per tonne for its SBS and OE SBS polymers.
Eliokem announced a price increase for Wingstay L antioxidant effective 1 July 2010.
Source: "Bernama" (Malaysian National News Agency), Kuala Lumpur; 12 June 2010
Source: "Vietnam Business News", Hanoi; 4 June 2010
Source: Daily "The Jakarta Post", Jakarta; 5 June 2010
Source: Daily "Business World Online", Manila; 4 June 2010
Stepan Europe has announced it will now be forced to increase the prices of Stepanpol aromatic polyester polyols (APP) for supply to its European customers in ...
Kraton plans to invest about USD 27 million in its Belpre, OH, USA, plant for the production of polyisoprene rubber, particularly for medical applications.
Wanhua Netherlands BV will increase the price of MDI sold in Europe by EUR 200.00 per tonne. This price adjustment applies to all polyurethane market segments ...
Since 2005, the German plastic compounder Akro-Plastic GmbH from Niederzissen has been operating a production facility with one compounding line between ...
In cooperation with the Brazilian company AB7, the German manufacturer of filtration systems for plastic melts, Gneuss Kunststofftechnik, has recently founded ...
The bioplastics manufacturer FKuR Kunststoff GmbH from Willlich, Germany, recently began operations of its newly founded subsidiary, FKuR Plastics Corporation, ...
Bridgestone Europe will scale up production at its plant in Poznan, Poland, which produces UHP and run-flat passenger car tyres for the European market.
Effective July 1, 2010, Stepan will increase prices for Stepanpol Polyester Polyols for the Flexible Foam Industry in North America by USD 0.06 per pound.
Dow Europe GmbH, Dow Polyurethanes and Dow Formulated Systems will raise prices for all polyols, MDI and for polyurethane systems up to 250 Euro per metric ton ...
Lanxess will expand capacities with a third production line at its compounding plant for hightech plastics in Wuxi, China.
Solutia Inc. will expand its manufacturing plant located in Suzhou, China, which produces the company’s Saflex polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer for ...
Celanese Corporation announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business, which includes the Ticona speciality resins business, has acquired two product ...
On 27 May Kuraray has announced price increases for its hydrogenated styrenic thermoplastic elastomers Septon and Hybrar, as well as "TU polymer."
Continental Tyres (Thailand) in Bangkok has been appointed as the authorised supplier of Continental brand tyres for Ford Fiestas assembled in Thailand.
According to a German newspaper, BASF has agreed in principle with the owners of Cognis AG on a takeover of the German manufacturer of additives.
KraussMaffei has improved the pumps it uses in its polyurethane metering systems. They are now more fitted for their specific job than other pumps on the ...
With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products:
Kraton Polymers LLC announced a general price increase in the Americas and Asia of USD 330 per tonne, or 15 cpp, for all its HSBC polymers and compounds. There ...
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has recently inaugurated a natural rubber processing factory in Surat Thani province in Thailand.
The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corporation will increase the price of all MDI products and MDI-based systems by a further EUR 200 per tonne in the ...