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Walter Pack expands RIM production in Spain

Walter Pack expands RIM production in Spain

Spanish group Walter Pack is expanding its capacity for producing parts using reaction injection moulding (RIM).
 
The company is acquiring a new 1,500 m² building close to its facility in Igorre, Vizcaya, in northern Spain, according to Telene, the French company which is supplying its materials to Walter Pack for producing polydicyclopentadiene (PDCPD) parts.

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Turkish group buys additives firm Chemson

Turkish group buys additives firm Chemson

Turkish industrial conglomerate Oyak Group has acquired PVC additives producer Chemson Group based in Austria.
 
In a joint statement, it was announced Oyak purchased Chemson’s shares from the Austrian private equity fund Buy-Out Central Europe II Beteiligungs-Invest AG, effective from 8 November. Financial details of the purchase are being kept confidential, the statement said.

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Buyers secure price rebates as costs fall

Buyers secure price rebates as costs fall

Western European standard thermoplastic prices fell in October and November after four months of rising notations. The downward price trend followed a drop in upstream petrochemical costs as a result of the easing of tension over the Syrian conflict.
 
Polymer feedstock contract prices settled lower in each of the previous two months. The ethylene contract price fell by a combined total of €65/tonne over the two-month period with propylene down by €70/tonne and styrene ...

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Sabic opens news R&D centre in India

Sabic opens news R&D centre in India

Petrochemical company Sabic Basic Industries Corp. has opened a new US$100 million state-of-the-art technology centre in Bangalore, India. 
 
With an area of 187,000 square meters, the centre is the newest of Sabic’s 17 global technology and innovation centres.  

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Coke bottles used in Ford hybrid car

Coke bottles used in Ford hybrid car

Coca-Cola has teamed up with Ford to help the carmaker furnish the inside of one of its research vehicles using the soft drinks giant’s PlantBottle Technology.
 
The companies last week unveiled a Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle where fabric surfaces of the car’s seat cushions and backs, head restraints, headliners and door panel inserts contained up to 30% plant-based materials. 

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Sabic commits $500 million to technology centers in India and China

Sabic commits $500 million to technology centers in India and China

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. is boosting its research and development efforts in two rapidly expanding markets, with new technology centers in India and China.
 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Sabic opened an 187,000-square-meter technical center in the south Indian city of Bengaluru on Nov. 29. In a few days it will open another center in China. 

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Brazil’s World Cup 2014 Squad Will Wear Recycled PET Bottles

Brazil’s World Cup 2014 Squad Will Wear Recycled PET Bottles

The 2010 World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa was the first time that the American sporting goods giant Nike outfitted all its national teams, ten of them at the time, in jerseys made of recycled PET plastic bottles. The company will do it again at World Cup 2014 (June 12-July 13) in Brazil, only this time the whole uniform will be recycled PET, including the socks.

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Polytype Converting denies closure plans

Polytype Converting denies closure plans

Swiss converting equipment manufacturer Polytype Converting AG has issued a statement this morning saying that there is “no credence at all” to the announcement by the Swiss union Employés Suisse that its entire Fribourg facility is in danger. The union has since apologised for the misinformation. However, planned re-structuring may result in job cuts, the group said.
 
In an interview with a trade journal in late November, the CEO of the group, Jörgen Kar...

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China's car industry sees gains, hurdles to using more plastic

China's car industry sees gains, hurdles to using more plastic

SHANGHAI ‒ China's car industry is working more seriously on developing its own technology on lightweighting, replacing metal parts with plastics, but many hurdles remain like poor communication in the supply chain holding back innovation, according to participants at the China International Auto Lightweight Plastics and Innovative Materials Development Forum, held Nov. 19-21 in Shanghai.
 
One the positive side, the Chinese car industry supply chain is getting more involved ...

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Cosmetics molder HCP expands in China, eyes doubling size from TPG investment

Cosmetics molder HCP expands in China, eyes doubling size from TPG investment

Chinese cosmetics packaging molder HCP Holdings Inc. is planning a sizable expansion of its facility in Suzhou, China, part of a series of investments the company is making after its purchase last year by American private equity firm TPG Capital LP.
 
Shanghai-based HCP plans to add 50 injection molding machines and 10 metallization and painting lines in Suzhou, during an upgrade that will also let it expand lean manufacturing programs there, according to HCP President and CEO Ed...

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Cefic welcomes draft directive on trade secrets

Cefic welcomes draft directive on trade secrets

Cefic, the pan-European representative body for the chemicals industry, has welcomed the adoption by the European Commission of a proposal for a directive on the protection of trade secrets.
 
The directive, announced on 28 November, would aim to protect innovation know-how and confidential business information (CBI) on a harmonised basis at the EU level. The Commission said one in five companies has reported at least one attempt to steal its trade secrets in the past ten years.

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Styrolution partners with research group and academia

Styrolution partners with research group and academia

Styrolution, the Germany-based compounder, has entered into a partnership with Neue Materialien Bayreuth GmbH (NMB) and the University of Bayreuth. Styrolution will complement its existing R&D efforts by tapping into the broad intellectual and infrastructural polymer research resources of its new partners.
 
The company claims the partnership goes beyond traditional models of corporate cooperation with academia in that NMB and the university are making their infrastructure ea...

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Polymer-Chemie expands compound range at Russian plant

Polymer-Chemie expands compound range at Russian plant

German compounder Polymer-Chemie has expanded the PVC product range and capacity at its Russian subsidiary Polymer-Chemie Rus in Russia’s Tula region.
 
The privately-owned group, based in Bad Sobernheim, Germany, installed a new extrusion line to produce rigid PVC granules at its plant in the Leninsky district of Tula.
This €12m facility has been producing PVC dryblend compounds since its inauguration with one line in April 2011. It is understood it was launched t...

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3M aids customer orientation with new film line

3M aids customer orientation with new film line

3M has invested in state-of-the-art laboratory equipment to evaluate advanced high performance multilayer films for its customers.
 
The three layer co-extrusion blown film line was installed by 3M Benelux after monitoring market trends that are moving towards optically clear multilayer film architecture for applications such as food packaging. 

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Trac Measurement Systems launches new bottle wall thickness gauge for PET beverage bottles

Trac Measurement Systems launches new bottle wall thickness gauge for PET beverage bottles

With a market trend toward PET lightweighting, Trac Measurement Systems has launched a new B300 bottle wall thickness system that allows measurements to be taken at finite intervals of 50 microns with a sensor spot size of 7.2 microns.
 
The company says that the wall thickness gauge facilitates comprehensive measurements to be taken at user definable positions ensuring a "fast, non-destructive, non-contact, accurate measurement."

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Uflex to expand Polish films plant

Uflex to expand Polish films plant

Indian flexible packaging manufacturer Uflex has announced it plans to double the capacity of its recently launched films plant near Poznan, Poland to expand its market penetration in Europe.  
 
This €60m Polish polyester film plant, now with a 36,000 tpa production capacity, was only launched in July 2012 by the Indian conglomerate’s Flex Films division. The Flex Films Europa plant is currently the only film manufacturing unit operated by Uflex in Europe.

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Medical device maker to open new US plant

Medical device maker to open new US plant

Medical device manufacturer Covidien plans to open a new production facility in Hillsborough County, Florida, in the US, state officials announced.
 
The company plans to invest $18m (€13m) in the site, and create 165 jobs with the project. The company is in temporary space and will move into a 62,200-square-foot facility in mid-2014, Governor Rick Scott's office said. Based in Dublin, Ireland, and with a US headquarters in Mansfield, Covidien has more than 38,000 employ...

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IPL to open Austrian tube plant

IPL to open Austrian tube plant

Italian company Industrie Plastiche Lombarde (IPL) is set to open a new hose and tube manufacturing plant in Völkermarkt, in the Carinthia region of Austria.
 
The company said it is planning the open 4,300 m² facility in spring 2014. The factory will produce hose and tubing in silicone, fluoropolymers and bioplastics for the biopharmaceutical and food processing industries.

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Green grades blight plastics recycling

Green grades blight plastics recycling

Biodegradable and oxo-degradable plastics are unwelcome addition to the waste stream and damage the recycling process, according to key players in the European plastics recycling industry.
 
“If I mix oxo-degradable plastics – even at one or two percent – into my reprocessing I cannot predict the quality of my finished product,” said Ton Emans, president of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE). “If I make a film out of it, its properties aren’t pred...

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Kalenobel of Turkey acquires Spain’s Big Drum

Kalenobel of Turkey acquires Spain’s Big Drum

Turkey’s packaging producer Kalenobel has taken over Spanish packaging manufacturer Big Drum, the Turkish company said in a statement. The amount of the deal was not disclosed by the companies.

Kalenobel owns a production facility in Lüleburgaz, Turkey, to which the manufacturer plans to shift the production capacity of Big Drum’s plants in Spain and Germany. In 2014, Kalenobel will add a further 100 workers to its current workforce of 350 with the aim of increasing its o...

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Clariant launches masterbatch show home

Clariant launches masterbatch show home

Muttenz, Switzerland-based Clariant Internation...
BASF starts production of bio-based BDO

BASF starts production of bio-based BDO

BASF says it has produced its first commercial ...
Groups urge more cooperation on marine litter

Groups urge more cooperation on marine litter

A global alliance of plastics associations is c...
KraussMaffei agrees to keep German plant open

KraussMaffei agrees to keep German plant open

KraussMaffei Group has reached an agreement wit...
Sidel launches RightWeight PET still water bottle

Sidel launches RightWeight PET still water bottle

Sidel has introduced RightWeight, a new 500ml P...

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