Turkish plastic films producer Polibak (İzmir; www.polibak.com.tr) has signed a contract with Brückner (Siegsdorf / Germany; www.brueckner.com) to build a new BOPP film production line to boost its ...

Toho Tenax (Europe: Wuppertal / Germany; www.tohotenax-eu.com) has introduced “Tenax”-E HTS45 E23 12K 800tex high tenacity carbon fibre worldwide. The company said the material offers improved ...

PET resins specialist M&G Chemicals (Luxembourg; www.mg-chemicals.com) is to increase capacity at its Corpus Christi, Texas / USA facility by over 100,000 t/y of PET, bringing its total output at the ...

Chemical giants BASF (D-67056 Ludwigshafen; www.basf.com) and Honeywell (Morristown, New Jersey / USA; www.honeywell.com) have agreed to swap assets in polyamide. BASF will acquire Honeywell´s PA 6 ...

With the foundation of FinnLoop (Helsinki / Finland) as a joint venture with Griffin Refineries (Helsinki; www.griffinrefineries.com), the German Reclay Group (Herborn; www.reclay-group.com) has ...

A new 50:50 joint venture between global polycarbonate market leaders Bayer (HQ: D-51368 Leverkusen) and Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo / Japan) will focus on developing a new type of PC resin for ...

In the past, exterior body components in plastics had to undergo elaborate painting. Coloured parts are only employed in a few exceptional cases at present – such as on the "smart". Now a new system, ...

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Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Renewed demand from Europe, continued steady progress in the US and a 40% surge in exports to Asia, along with internal restructuring measures, helped French chemicals and plastics producer Elf ...

German chemicals and precious metals group Degussa (HQ: D-60287 Frankfurt) has spun off its acrylics activities into a new wholly owned subsidiary. Along with production of methyl methacrylate monomer ...