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BIOENGINEERING PLASTICS
Bio-based polyols used in flexible foams / Cargill technology overcomes earlier problems
24.03.2006
INTERVIEW
Rainer Huneke, managing director of Biesterfeld Plastic, explains the strategy of the pan-European distributor / Scepticism about LME futures / Price volatility will probably increase further
23.03.2006
TOTAL
Arkema to be floated in May
23.03.2006
POLYURETHANES MARKET
Cartel proceedings in US / Leading feedstock makers investigated on price fixing charges
20.03.2006
COMPOSITES
UK launches EUR 3.1m aerospace composite centre
16.03.2006
BOREALIS
Closure of Norwegian HDPE plant definite
15.03.2006
COMPOUNDING INDUSTRY
Sluggish European growth / Integrated players dominate the market / Increasing consolidation even among independent compounders / Asian market continues to grow / AMI report
15.03.2006
RUSSIA
Increasing demand for PP / Imports cover one third of the market requirements
09.03.2006
REICHHOLD / SPOLCHEMIE
Agreement on polyester resin production in eastern Europe
03.03.2006
CHINA
Leading masterbatch producers hold 75% of the market / Annual growth of 15% / AMI study
01.03.2006
JEC
Innovative work in composites recognised / Wide range of new plastics applications
01.03.2006
SHELL
Chinese site at Daya Bay ready for start
01.03.2006
BASF
Turnaround planned for steam cracker
01.03.2006
EPS
Further growth in demand / Consumption driven by insulation in Europe and packaging in Asia / High capacity utilisation at European plants / Benzene crisis intensifies price volatility
16.02.2006
BASELL
Pernis LIPP plant to close next year / European strategy review / Wesseling cracker back up
16.02.2006
LUCITE
Charterhouse to sell MMA giant / Other private equity buyers said to be interested
16.02.2006
BOREALIS
Norwegian HDPE plant may close / Some 100 jobs at stake / Middle East cheaper
16.02.2006
PET
Lower anti-dumping duty for Chinese producer
07.02.2006
TVK
Polyolefins producer establishes Ukrainian distributor
02.02.2006
FIBERFIL
DSM divests North American PP compounding business / Company regains independence
02.02.2006
TECHNIP
Contract to build ethane cracker for Kuwait jv / Project to increase ethylene derivatives output
02.02.2006
BAYER
PU systems house in Thailand
30.01.2006
POLYETHYLENE
World consumption now tops 60m tonnes / Slack growth and scant capacity expansion in western Europe / Asia overtakes North America / Central and eastern Europe in the fast lane, too
19.01.2006
TPE
Consumption is seen to top 3m t through 2009 / China now the largest market / Freedonia study
19.01.2006
BASELL
Participation in LME plastics futures trading after all / “Encouraging signals from exchange”
19.01.2006
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