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BIOPLASTICS
Nova study sees global output as nearly tripling by 2020 / Bio-PET market driver / PP produced completely from biomass?
13.03.2013
PLA MARKET
Asia-Pacific remains highest growth region / Major investments in the packaging sector
28.02.2013
GENOMATICA
First large-scale commercial production of bio-based 1,4-butanediol / Collaboration with DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products in the US
20.02.2013
SK CHEMICALS / TEIJIN
Plans for PPS joint venture in South Korea / Production of high-performance plastic scheduled to begin in 2016
08.02.2013
BIOPLASTICS
Novamont-coordinated ReBioFoam project publishes findings / Microwave process to manufacture 3-D components
07.02.2013
REICHHOLD
Closure of New Jersey resins plant following storm damage / Some of site's 27 jobs affected
28.01.2013
EVONIK
Raising C4 capacity in Antwerp and Marl / Investing “hundreds of millions of euros”
16.01.2013
DOW
Brazilian biopolymer joint venture with Mitsui postponed / Focus on more profitable shale gas projects
14.01.2013
REVERDIA
Commercial production kicks off at new bio-based succinic acid plant in Italy / Focus on footwear and packaging applications
18.12.2012
MITSUBISHI RAYON
Acquisition of US-based Aldila expands position in graphite golf club shafts and carbon fibre intermediates
12.12.2012
3M
Fluoroelastomer capacity expansion in the US / Cooperating with DSM on PA-based light-weight blends
11.12.2012
SHANDONG SHENGQUAN CHEMICAL
Building new 200,000 t/y phenolic resins complex / Commissioning scheduled for July 2013
07.12.2012
ARKEMA
EUR 70m French PVDF expansion buried / Union strike disrupted production
23.11.2012
AVIATION COMPOSITES
Market growing at 12.8% per year to USD 414m in 2018 / Composites offer weight reduction and impact resistance advantages over metal / Frost & Sullivan study
23.11.2012
DSM
Raising output of “Stanyl ForTii” polyamide in Geleen
22.11.2012
BIOPLASTICS
EC's industrial policy favours bio-economy / Increasingly dynamic market / Largest global capacity in Asia and South America / Bio-PET drives development / Soft drink producers at the forefront of innovation
22.11.2012
POLYPLASTICS
Ticona joint venture opens independent sales office in Frankfurt
20.11.2012
AMER INTERNATIONAL
Construction of polyimide project in north east China kicks off / Local competition for DuPont, Sabic and Solvay
01.11.2012
MEREDIAN
US bioplastics producer opens PHA plant in Georgia / Claimed to be “largest facility of its kind in the world”
30.10.2012
COMPOSITES
City made of composites featured at “Feiplar” event in Brazil / Brazilian composites demand to grow by 9.5% in 2012
30.10.2012
BASF / TENCATE
Strategic alliance to develop and produce thermoplastic composites for the automotive sector
29.10.2012
PETROBRAS
Technology selected for melamine project in Brazil / Part of gas-to-chemicals complex
29.10.2012
PERSTORP
Biodegradable plastics expansion in UK
24.10.2012
SOLVAY
PVDF capacity expansion in France is commissioned
22.10.2012
COMPOSITES
European GRP production stagnates / Turkey and Far East reap the benefits of weak southern European market / Automotive industry is key for CFRP advances / Germany's AVK industry association round table during “Composites Europe”
22.10.2012
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