DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers is announcing a price increase of EUR 0.10/kg on all Elvax EVA copolymer resins in the region Europe, Middle East and ...

Trelleborg has acquired the industrial tyre business of the Dutch company Industriebanden Beheer B. V. The business specialises in the distribution and service ...

The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan (Socar) has awarded KBR a contract to provide project management services for the front end engineering design (FEED) phase of ...

Arkema has appointed Velox GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, as its exclusive distributor for the medical business development in Europe. In the North America region, ...

Ferro Spain S. A., Almazora, Spain, and Biesterfeld Plastic GmbH announced that the Hamburg-based distributor takes back the distribution of Ferro’s Alcryn ...

Condor Compounds announced investment in a new 150 mm 20d co-kneader line to manufacture Conlink crosslinkable halogen free and flame retardant cable insulation ...

Wittenburg’s Zeewolde facility is now officially qualified under both the medical ISO 13485 standard and the environmental ISO 14001 standard.

There is a new market study available which analyses the development of the global TPE markets. It is published by Transparency Market Research, based in ...

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has completed the acquisition of Applied Bioprocess Containers, a supplier of single use containers and fluid transfer systems ...

Borealis has acquired DexPlastomers VOF in Geleen, The Netherlands. The company was a 50/50 joint venture ultimately owned by Royal DSM and ExxonMobil Chemical ...

The Thai agriculture ministry is urging rubber farmers who have participated in a state subsidy programme to help maintain the stability of prices during a ...

China, Singapore and Malaysia are the largest importers of Myanmar’s rubber, according to a report on Myanmar news website Mizzima.

Chinaplas 2013 – the 27^th International Exhibition on Plastics and Rubber Industries, Asia’s no. 1 and world’s no. 2 plastics and rubber trade fair, ...

Lanxess will convert production of E-SBR used in standard tyres to S-SBR used in “green” tyres at its site in Triunfo (Rio Grande do Sul) in southern Brazil. ...

Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, will acquire Bird Engineering B. V., a Dutch biotech contract research company, specifically in the field of industrial microbiology

Supermax Corp Bhd expects total sales from emerging markets to increase by 10 % in one or two years from 6 % currently.

Solvay announced it will invest EUR 75 million to build a new 85,000 t/y highly dispersible silica (HDS) plant in Wloclawek, Poland.

Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell have launched the logo of the Al-Karaana Petrochemicals Complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City and also announced the award of the ...

An industry report on surveys spanning 24 years of foam manufacturing plant health and safety records found incidences of occupational asthma to be lower among ...

“2012 was a very successful year for the Bayer Group, as it continued to grow dynamically and achieved its targets. All subgroups posted gains in sales and ...

With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products:

Oriental Energy has signed a license with Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical, for Unipol polypropylene ...

A Malaysian government rubber agency is prepared to develop 20,000 hectares of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Cambodia, provided suitable land can be found.

The first-ever loan scheme for small-scale rubber estate owners by the Thurusaviya Fund and Bank of Ceylon has been titled "Thurusaviya Loan Scheme."

Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC) has entered into a merger agreement that will allow MRC to strengthen its acrylonitrile chain.

A privately owned Singapore packaging company, Dynapack Asia, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Viscount Plastics Malaysia, a manufacturer of ...

Al Waha Petrochemicals Co. has initiated the necessary steps to restart the production units at its Jubail complex in Saudi Arabia after a “sudden technical ...

A. Schulman, Inc. announced yesterday (4 March 2013) that it has made a proposal to the Board of Directors of Ferro Corporation to acquire all of the ...

A conference with the subject of thermoplastic elastomers in multi-component technology will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, on the 16 to 17 April 2013.

Perstorp and Milano Colori have signed a new and extended distribution agreement for the sales of Perstorp’s products to the coatings and coating resins market ...

The Kremsmünster-based Austrian company Eurofoam, a specialist for the production and processing of polyurethane flexible foam, announced it has issued a ...