KraussMaffei perfectly matched system components
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Hannover-based KraussMaffei Berstorff GmbH has developed an innovative system solution for TPE-V production by merging its engineering capabilities in rubber processing and compounding. Precise feeding of the rubber compound into the twin-screw compounding extruder is achieved by using a short single-screw rubber processing extruder with downstream gear pump.
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Braskem announces investments of more than R$ 1.0 billion in Rio Grande do Sul
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Braskem is inaugurating a new cycle of investments at the Triunfo Petrochemical Complex starting by consolidating the sector in the south through an investment of more than R$ 1.0 billion scheduled over the next 3 years and the decision to produce green polyethylene in Rio Grande do Sul. This investment program is in line with the company’s growth with the creation of value strategy that aims at making Braskem one of the ten largest companies in |
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Brazilian Packaging Leader Installs Davis-Standard PET Sheet System
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Neoform S.A, a leading producer of food packaging in Brazil, recently installed a Davis-Standard, LLC sheet system to support demand for the company’s PET-based product line, including a new product by the trade name of Formplast, a decorative laminate for internal and external furniture surfaces. Neoform, located in Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil, is best known for its durable and attractive food-packaging products including transparent deli and bakery containers. |
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LyondellBasell Announces Plan to Consolidate Polypropylene Compounding and
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Following its February 2008 acquisition of Solvay Engineered Polymers, Inc., LyondellBasell has announced plans to consolidate its North American-based polypropylene (PP) compounding production, sales, marketing and technology activities. The company will close its Sales & Application Development Center in Auburn Hills, Mich. The sales, marketing and technology activities currently conducted at the Auburn Hills site will be relocated to the |
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PolyOne Names Eight Business Development Managers
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) announced today the addition of several business development managers (BDMs) to its corporate account organization. The BDMs will utilize their strong project management skills and technical backgrounds to gain specification with large original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in order to penetrate new markets such as electrical, appliances, healthcare, and biopolymers. The team has global responsibility for PolyOne’s full bundle of products |
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| Braskem and Estrela sign partnership around green plastic |
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| Braskem and Brinquedos Estrela have announced they shall establish a long-term partnership to develop products made of green polyethylene made of 100% renewable raw material during the International Week for the Environment
The first result of this partnership is Sustainable Monopoly, a modern version of one of the most traditional games in Brazilian toy industry, which shall soon be in the market with the proposal of joining environmental education and entertaining. |
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| Bayer new primer for the hardcoating of polycarbonate |
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| Leverkusen-based Momentive Performance Materials GmbH is in the process of developing SHP 470 FT 2050, a new primer system for the hardcoating of black-pigmented polycarbonate. Components used in exterior applications enjoy excellent weathering resistance, when coated with the developmental product. “We found that this primer is also very compatible with AS 4700, an established Momentive topcoat for |
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| Borealis announces key personnel changes in its moulding business |
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| Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces that Wim Roels, currently Vice President (VP) for Innovation and Technology, assumed the role of Vice President for the Moulding Business Unit in Vienna, effective June 1, 2008. The current Moulding VP Gilles Rochas will move to the Borouge marketing and sales company in Singapore to lead its Film and Moulding business. Rochas succeeds Laurence Jones who will take over the newly |
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| KraussMaffei supplies a new extruder size to Riccini PP multilayer pipe |
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| Italian pipe manufacturer Riccini S.r.l., Perugia, will shortly begin operating a new extrusion line from KraussMaffei Berstorff to produce multilayer PP well pipe. This type of pipe is used in sinking wells that extract drinking water from groundwater. The section of the pipe that reaches into the groundwater has apertures through which water enters the pipe.
The conventional material for this type of pipe used to be PVC.
Riccini is now planning to offer PP well pipe as |
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| Dow Chairman & CEO Liveris Elected as USCBC Chair |
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| Andrew Liveris, Chairman & CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, has been elected as new chairman of the US-China Business Council, USCBC President John Frisbie announced today. Liveris will serve for a two-year term, according to Frisbie, who also outlined other new officers and directors of the organization. Liveris leads the Midland, Michigan-based $54 billion chemical company. In Greater China, where Dow’s 2007 revenue surpassed $3.3 billion, Dow has more than 2,500 |
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| Exopack sells Newmarket film business to Dynamic Solutions Unlimited |
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| Dynamic Solutions Unlimited, LLC announces the purchase of Exopack Holding Corp.’s (Exopack) film business in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. For more than 50 years, Newmarket has been supplying high quality single and multi-layer polyethylene films to customers involved in package converting operations, form-fill-seal applications and shrink bundling. With the recent acquisition of its Whitby, Ontario, Canada performance films production facility from DuPont |
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