Rubber Polyurethanes
First TPO bumper fascia named SPE Hall of Fame winner

The 1985MY Chevrolet Cavalier sedan from then General Motors Corp. (GM) – the first vehicle to use front and rear thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) bumper ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
RTP opens manufacturing facility in Ladenburg, Germany

RTP announced that it has opened a new manufacturing plant in Ladenburg, Germany. Operating as RTP Deutschland GmbH, the operation will produce a wide range of ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
DuPont Performance Polymers announces price increases

DuPont Performance Polymers announces the following price increases in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA), effective 1 December 2010, or as contracts allow:

Thermoplastic Elastomers
ExxonMobil Chemical appoints PolyOne as primary marketing specialist for Santoprene medical grades

ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced today that it has selected PolyOne to be its primary marketing specialist for TPV medical products made using Santoprene. ...

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BMS raises prices for TPUs

Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS) is raising the selling prices for the product groups Desmopan, Texin, Desmoderm und Desmomelt in the Europe, Middle East, Africa, ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
KraussMaffei opens new production plant in Slovakia

KraussMaffei has recently opened its new production plant in Martin, Slovakia.

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Croda to expand amide slip additives facility in UK

Croda recently announced a multi-million dollar investment in its Polymer Additives business at its Hull, UK, site.

Rubber Polyurethanes
3102 exhibitors at the K2010

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 ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Faurecia to buy Plastal Spain

Faurecia has announced plans to acquire the Spanish supplier of plastic exterior parts for the automotive industry Plastal S. A.

Thermoplastic Elastomers
BASF to establish Styrolution, transfer styrenics activities to separate companies

BASF plans to carve out its businesses in styrene monomers, polystyrene, ABS, SBC, and other styrene-based copolymers and establish separate companies.

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Hexpol to buy Excel Polymers

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 ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
CTS to start TPE and PVC compounding for automotive applications in China

Tessenderlo Group has signed, through its French subsidiary CTS, an agreement with the Chinese authorities to start up a new production plant for ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
LyondellBasell shares begin trading on NYSE

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 ...

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Solvay to expand compounding capacity for speciality polymers in China

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 ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
PolyOne to distribute Dow Corning silicone elastomers for medical applications

Dow Corning and PolyOne announced that PolyOne will distribute Dow Corning’s silicone products to healthcare device manufacturers and fabricators in the USA, ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Handover at Bayer

Some 300 guests from industry, politics, sport and the Bayer world bade farewell to Werner Wenning at a festive gathering in Leverkusen, Germany. Wenning – ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Keyuan to build new SBS production plant

Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc., a manufacturer of petrochemical products in China, has started building a new styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) production facility ...