DuPont Performance Polymers announces the following price increases in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA), effective 1 December 2010, or as contracts allow:
World Minerals will increase diatomaceous earth and perlite prices, for its European activities effective 1 January 2011, or as current price agreements expire:
Source: "ColomboPage" (Sri Lanka's Internet Newspaper), Colombo; 19 Oct 2010
Despite the overcome crisis year 2009, this year only 12 companies less for K than in the boom year 2007. This shows that most of the companies in this industry ...
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 21 Oct 2010
Hexpol will acquire rubber compounding group Excel Polymers for a price of USD 212,5 million on a cash and debt-free basis. According to Hexpol, the ...
Tessenderlo Group has signed, through its French subsidiary CTS, an agreement with the Chinese authorities to start up a new production plant for ...
Solutia Inc. announced that the company's Saflex polyvinyl butyral (PVB) portfolio will be subject to a price increase effective 15 December 2010.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved an equity investment of EUR 52 million in SolVin Holding Nederland. This investment ...
Bridgestone Corporation will increase its production capacity of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) film, which is used as an adhesive film for solar modules. The ...
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. common stock began trading Thursday, 14 October 2010, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol LYB for Class A ...
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 13 Oct 2010
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 14 Oct 2010
Applied Market Information Ltd. has published a new market study, titled “AMI’s guide to the profile extrusion industry in Europe”, detailing the plant ...
Solvay will build a speciality polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the ...
Source: "Philippine Daily Inquirer", Manila; 11 Oct 2010
In recent months, eight more organisations have joined the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) Panel of Associates.
The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc. (IISRP) has elected Dow Chemical and Golden Tex Company, Inc. as its new members.
Goodway Integrated Industries Berhad and Indag Rubber Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding to consider joint opportunities to strengthen both ...
BASF will invest in a dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, China. With an annual capacity of 100,000 t, the new plant will ...
Dow Corning and PolyOne announced that PolyOne will distribute Dow Corning’s silicone products to healthcare device manufacturers and fabricators in the USA, ...
Yokohama Rubber will increase the annual production capacity of the passenger car and light truck (PC/LT) tyre plant of Yokohama Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) ...
Some 300 guests from industry, politics, sport and the Bayer world bade farewell to Werner Wenning at a festive gathering in Leverkusen, Germany. Wenning – ...
Solutia Inc. is optimising and expanding its Saflex polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer manufacturing capacity in South America.
Cabot has officially opened its carbon black masterbatch manufacturing facility in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai. The plant has an initial production capacity ...
By taking over the French rubber distributor Spécialités et Matières Premières du Caoutchouc – SMPC S.A., Biesterfeld Plastic GmbH is investing in ...
Source: Daily "Manila Bulletin", Manila; 30 Sept 2010
The global natural rubber (NR) prices including those of Malaysia's tyre grade SMR 20 and latex-in-bulk, which are nearing new historical highs, may continue to ...
DuPont and the Chenguang Chemical Research Institute, a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corp. (ChemChina), have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture for ...
Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc., a manufacturer of petrochemical products in China, has started building a new styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) production facility ...
ContiTech AG has recently acquired all the shares in its ContiTech-Jiebao Power Transmission Systems Ltd. joint venture.
The US extrusion company Unitek Sealing Solutions was recently purchased by the Hanover-based German automotive supplier Jäger Group. In future the company ...
Ineos Nova announced that prices for General Purpose Polystyrene (GPPS) products will increase by a minimum of 30 EUR per tonne effective 1 October 2010.
Source: Daily "The Star", Kuala Lumpur; 30 Sept 2010