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DSM
Launch of open platform for Covid-19 solutions / Production of masks and nose swabs for Dutch government
29.05.2020
HUNTSMAN
Sales boost quarterly profit / Acquisition of CVC Thermoset complete
27.05.2020
ML POLYOLEFINS
Product range to include new post-consumer recycled resins / “Grayfin PPH30” rPP resin now available
27.05.2020
RÖCHLING
Plastics group undergoes stress test / Sales down 80% in April / Automotive division takes a breather
26.05.2020
BOREALIS
Plans for Kazakhstan cracker complex dropped / Pandemic clouds horizon
25.05.2020
APK
Collaboration with Siegwerk on de-inking colour-printed packaging for recycling
25.05.2020
LANXESS
Earnings forecast for 2020 revised down / Negative effects from pandemic to intensify in Q2 and Q3
22.05.2020
RTP
Major fire at compounding plant in Germany / “First corona, and now this”
20.05.2020
PLASTICS RECYCLING
Recyclers under pressure on three sides – plunging sales, shortage of base material and low virgin material prices / Production lines shut down till July / Fear of irreparable damage
20.05.2020
DOW / DOXA PLAST
Partnership on bio-based polyethylene stretch films
19.05.2020
CORONAVIRUS
Plastics producers among the European companies coming to the rescue / Face protection and materials for essential workers
18.05.2020
DSM
Plastics division reports Q1 decline in volumes and sales / Losses offset by Nutrition segment
18.05.2020
ATERMIT
Turkish EPP foam specialist turns to producing face shields during virus pandemic
15.05.2020
COVESTRO
Cooperation with US compounder Teknor Apex on TPU products
15.05.2020
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LLDPE: Qapco declares force majeure on supply from Qatar / Less material from the US
14.05.2020
FORMOSA PLASTICS
Covid-19 outbreak at Texas site / Start-up of new polyethylene plant delayed again
14.05.2020
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LDPE: Borealis declares force majeure on cracker supply / Bottlenecks with some PE grades / Inovyn's PVC production largely unaffected
13.05.2020
RWDC
USD 133m for bioplastics production expansion secured
13.05.2020
LYONDELLBASELL
Key profits fall on Covid-19 impact and low oil prices / Facilities for automotive idled or running at reduced rates / European crackers operating around 80% in Q2
12.05.2020
DUPONT
Company temporarily shuts 50% of polymer capacity / Q1 EBITDA falls 8% to USD 1.3 bn
12.05.2020
TRINSEO
Unprofitable German assets put styrenics group in the red in Q1 / Weaker styrene margins, lower prices and Covid-19 impacts
12.05.2020
BOREALIS
Fire at cracker in Stenungsund / Impact on polyethylene and PVC facilities unclear
11.05.2020
INEOS
Three new butane barges to supply Cologne cracker via Rhine river / Fourth barge due later in 2020
11.05.2020
BOREALIS
Net profit feels Covid-19 effects and slips by a quarter in Q1 / Cost-cutting programme announced
11.05.2020
LG CHEM
Deadly styrene leak / At least 11 killed and 800 injured after accident on India's east coast
08.05.2020
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