Polyurethanes
Evonik to increase prices for select PU additives in North America

Effective 15 March 2011, the Polyurethane Additives business line of Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation will increase Kosmos 29 stannous octoate prices by 10 % in ...

Polyurethanes
Sonderhoff with new activities in India, Israel, and Australia

The rising demand for service and support in the plastic and rubber industry markets is the reason for Sonderhoff, a leading system supplier of FIPFG (Formed In ...

Polyurethanes
Chinaplas 2011 celebrating its 25th edition

Chinaplas 2011, the 25th international exhibition on the plastics and rubber industries, will be held from 17?–?20 May 2011 in the largest exhibition hall in ...

Polyurethanes
Perstorp purchases Ashland’s Penta business

Perstorp Polyols Inc. has signed an agreement with Hercules Incorporated, a subsidiary of Ashland Inc., for the acquisition of its pentaerythritol (Penta) ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Dana to build technical center in India

Dana Holding Corporation has broken ground for a USD 20 million technical center in Pune, India. The new facility, Dana's fifteenth technical center globally, ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Brenntag opens new chemical distribution facility in Indonesia

Brenntag recently unveiled its new distribution facility in Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility provides a bigger storage capacity than the current warehouse in ...

Polyurethanes
Isopa launches Hungarian version of its Polyurethanes campaign website

Isopa announced that the Hungarian version of its Polyurethanes campaign website is now live.

Polyurethanes
Arkema to buy Total’s photocure and coatings resins units

Arkema intends to acquire Total's coatings resins and photocure resins businesses for EUR 550 million. The businesses concerned include the coatings resins ...

Polyurethanes
Call for Papers: PFA Technical Program

25 February 2011 is the deadline for submitting requests for technical presentations for the 19 May 2011 Polyurethane Foam Association (PFA) Technical Program.

Rubber Polyurethanes
700,000 polyurethane condoms stolen in transit

Sagami Rubber Industries reported that more than 700,000 of its ultrathin condoms have been stolen in transit between Malaysia and Japan.

Polyurethanes
Huntsman to increase price of MDI, MDI-based systems, and polyol grades

Huntsman Polyurethanes will increase the price of all of its MDI products, MDI-based systems, and polyol grades in Europe, in the Gulf Corporation Council ...

Polyurethanes
Hennecke invests in customer centre for high-volume RTM applications

Due to increasing requirements for efficiency and ecology, interest in lightweight solutions for the automotive industry continues to grow. The focus is ...

Polyurethanes
Univar closes Quaron acquisition

On 10 January 2011, Univar, a distributor of industrial and speciality chemicals, has completed the acquisition of the Quaron business in Belgium and the ...

Polyurethanes
Bodo Möller and BASF extend distribution partnership to Poland

Since 1 December 2010, Bodo Möller Chemie Polska sells and distributes the former Ciba pigments and additives of the BASF product portfolio for the lacquer, ...

Polyurethanes
Wanhua acquires full control of BorsodChem

Wanhua Industrial Group has acquired full control over the Hungarian isocyanate producer BorsodChem by exercising a call option which it was granted as part of ...

Polyurethanes
Stepan to increase flexible polyol price for North America

Effective 15 February 2011, Stepan will increase prices for Stepanpol polyester polyols for the flexible foam industry in North America by USD 0.15 per pound.

Polyurethanes
BASF increases prices for polyurethane products in Europe

With immediate effect, or as contract terms allow, BASF will be increasing its prices for MDI, TDI, and polyols in Europe on average by 250 Euro per metric ton.

Rubber Polyurethanes
Price revisions for Kuraray’s elastomer products

On 27 January Kuraray has announced that it will revise prices for its elastomer-related products for shipments commencing 14 February 2011.