Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Kuraray announces price increase for Septon

Kuraray announced a price increase for Septon hydrogenated styrenic thermoplastic elastomers by 30 JPY/kg for all domestic and overseas shipments commencing 22 ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Call for papers: SPE Auto TPO Conference 2011

The thirteenth annual SPE Automotive TPO Global Conference, a leading automotive olefins forum sponsored by the Detroit Section of the Society of Plastics ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Great Lakes Solutions raises prices on phosphorus flame retardants

Great Lakes Solutions, a Chemtura Corporation business, today announced that effective 1 March 2011, or as contract terms allow, it increased prices on its ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Henkel announces price increase for industrial adhesives

With immediate effect, Henkel is implementing a price increase for certain product groups of its industrial adhesives. Increase amounts will vary based on ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
PolyOne sells SunBelt investment to Olin

PolyOne Corporation recently announced the sale of its 50% ownership interest in SunBelt Chlor Alkali Partnership to Olin Corporation.

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
DSM Elastomers declares Force Majeure for Keltan

On 22 February DSM Elastomers declared Force Majeure for its Keltan production at the Geleen site and announced a reduction of sales. This reduction of sales ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Sabic and ExxonMobil Elastomers Project joint venture moves into FEED stage

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and affiliates of ExxonMobil Chemical announced that work on their proposed elastomers project joint venture has moved fully ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
BASF increases prices of antioxidants and process stabilizers for plastic applications

Effective 28 February 2011, or as contracts allow, BASF has increased prices globally of antioxidants and process stabilizers for plastic applications by 5-10%, ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Dow creates new Performance Plastics Division

Dow has announced that it has created a new Performance Plastics Division. This business unit will be comprised of all Dow plastics including Solution ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Kraton announces Americas SBS and SIS price increase

Kraton announced a general price increase in the Americas of 110 USD/t, or 5 cpp for its SBS, and OE SBS polymers and compounds, and 110 USD/t, or 5 cpp for all ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Bayer operating performance on track

Bayer announced at the recent Financial News Conference in Leverkusen that it has achieved its targets in 2010. “2010 was a good year for us overall,” said ...