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CSM and its subsidiary Purac have announced the official start of construction for its new lactide plant in Thailand, that will produce monomers for bioplastics...

Rapid Granulator is proceeding as planned with its restructuring. The company announced on April 7 the winding up of...

A cast line for stretch film of the Handrollex range with a web width of 2,000 mm is under manufacturing at Colines. The line is able...

In Italy, sellers are asking for 50 euro/ton increases for April on their LDPE and LLDPE offers in the spot market. Tight supplies...

The rotary injection machine which contributed to spread the name of Presma in the Seventies is now being re-proposed...

Looking at the export towards ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mynamar, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)...

Steve Braig, former CEO of Engel North America has been appointed president and CEO of Trexel, the...

Cognis has signed an agreement for the sale of its UV acrylates business to the Dutch IGM Resins, that should be formally completed by...

Since April 1, 2010, Epurex Films, a subsidiary of Bayer MaterialScience, has been marketing film products formerly sold as Walopur...

An agreement has been signed between Sabic and Celanese Corporation for the construction of a 50,000-ton POM production facility at the..

Dow Europe has announced on March 31 the decision to shut down its 235,000-ton/y capacity...

STY Acquisition Corporation, an affiliate of Bain Capital Partners formed to facilitate its purchase of the Styron division of The Dow Chemical Company, on...

Since the April propylene contracts settled with a substantial increase of 70 euro/ton last week, some new PP offers for April have emerged in...

The third generation of the ER3X robot has been launched by Amut to handle and stack articles produced by FFG thermoforming machines with...

The Belgian Association Federplast.be, that counts more than 300 companies with 34,000 employees and a turnover of 16 billion euro, is optimistic for...

The latest Sipa development in water sector brings to the market another step towards cost effectiveness, lightweight and technology development...

In the latest three years, the ranking of the destination countries for the main world manufacturers of injection moulding machines saw...

NatureWorks Ingeo biopolymer - made from plants - is the first polymer to earn a four-star “OK biobased” rating from the European certification organization Vinçotte...

Bayer MaterialScience has signed a contract with Uhde to build a new plant for chlorine production based on common salt. The plant, which will have an annual capacity of...

ExxonMobil Chemical has expanded its portfolio of metallocene polyethylene (mPE) resins with the introduction of Enable mPE 35-05 grade resin for tough, stiff, high clarity films...