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RADICI
Sales down 12% in 2008
30.03.2009
ENGEL
Drive to replace old injection moulding equipment / Financial incentive to scrap outdated models
30.03.2009
VINNOLIT
Short-time working in PVC production
27.03.2009
EUROCELL
Acquisition of Recovinyl-certified recycling business / Purchase price undisclosed
27.03.2009
CRISTAL GLOBAL
Temporary shutdown of titanium dioxide facilities in the UK and US
27.03.2009
SHIMIZU INDUSTRY UK
Radical restructuring for auto parts moulder / One factory to close / 124 possible job losses
27.03.2009
ALBIS PLASTIC
Exclusive licence agreement with Ciba for oxygen absorber / Extension of Ampacet masterbatch agreement to UK
27.03.2009
DSM COMPOSITE RESINS
Joint ventures for distribution and gelcoats
26.03.2009
BASF
Smaller Ludwigshafen cracker idled / Continued weak demand / Short-time working in the offing?
26.03.2009
LYONDELLBASELL
Chocolate Bayou olefins complex to close permanently / Reduced demand and high costs cited
26.03.2009
FÆRCH PLAST
New management approach required during downturn / CEO retires after net loss in 2008
26.03.2009
REHAU
More redundancies at UK manufacturing site / Continuing fall in demand for window and door systems
25.03.2009
ARBURG
Double-digit fall in sales in 2008 / Short-time working since February / Turnover down 50% at the beginning of 2009
25.03.2009
SABIC
Logistics centre opened in Greece
25.03.2009
ARMANDO ALVAREZ
Film lines ordered from Gloucester Engineering
24.03.2009
MEA
Spanish company Celo takes majority stake in wall plug production
24.03.2009
EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL
Technology centre to be built in Shanghai
24.03.2009
SABIC EUROPE
Closure of LDPE autoclave unit at Geleen this year
23.03.2009
TESSENDERLO
Strength in chemicals business / Construction slump hits plastics converting in Europe and US
23.03.2009
MÄRKLIN
Nearly 400 jobs to go at insolvent model railroad maker / Restructuring targets break-even in 2009
23.03.2009
PLASTAL
All six Plastal plants in Germany operating normally / Financing plan developed / Sale process has begun
23.03.2009
CHEMTURA
US additives producer in Chapter 11 / European assets unaffected / Order volume down “markedly”
20.03.2009
LANXESS
Earnings in 2008 stable despite weak Q4 / Performance Polymers hit by crisis / Expansion projects on ice
20.03.2009
KRAUSSMAFFEI
Cutting 200 jobs in Munich / Extending short-time working / Sales down year-on-year
20.03.2009
ARKEMA
Hubron appointed as UK nanotube distributor
20.03.2009
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