Braskem and Estrela sign partnership around green plastic
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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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
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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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
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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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
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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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
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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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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| OTHER WORLD NEWS |
| 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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| Amcor announces sale of flexible |
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| Amcor announces today that it has entered into an agreement to sell its flexible packaging plant located in Perth, Western Australia for $35 million to Integrated Packaging. The plant produces industrial stretch wrap film for the domestic and New Zealand markets. Amcor's Managing Director and CEO, Ken MacKenzie, said: "Amcor's strategy in flexible packaging is to focus on the higher value-add segments of the food and healthcare markets. This plant was not aligned to the remainder |
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| REACH-IT will be initially used for company sign-up and pre-registrations |
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| The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published today information specifying how to sign up company in REACH-IT and how to submit preregistrations
of single substance via the REACH-IT portal to the Agency as of 1 June. Practical guidance is available in the updated REACH-IT section of the ECHA website. Geert Dancet, Executive Director of ECHA, said that “Our highest priority over the past 12 months has been to ensure that companies will be able to fulfil their obligations |
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| DSM completes acquisition of PTG |
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| Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, today announces that it has closed the acquisition of The Polymer Technology Group, Inc. (PTG) of Berkeley (California, United States), a market leader in the field of biomedical polymers. Through this acquisition DSM gains a global leading position in the fast growing biomedical materials market. PTG will now be known as DSM PTG. The acquisition was
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| Portola Invests in US Operations - Anchor Plants Core Part of |
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| Portola Packaging, Inc., announces it is consolidating its US manufacturing footprint and leveraging it’s invested capital into their three US ‘Anchor’ plants. This move is part of the company’s on-going strategy to invest in the most efficient manufacturing technologies and streamline its operations. As escalating raw materials costs continue to plague all plastics related industries, Portola is taking the steps necessary to be the most cost-effective, high-efficiency producer in the |
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| Establishment of Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company |
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| Mohamed Al-Mady, Vice Chairman and CEO of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), announced today that SABIC is a strategic partner in the formation of the Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company. This follows the signing of partnership agreements with Kayan for the establishment of the public stock company. The new company’s capital amounts to 12 billion Saudi Riyals. The new company will be located in Al-Jubail Industrial City with an annual production capacity exceeding 4 |
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