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BASF
Styrene co-polymers take the stage at Fakuma
 		06.11.2008
POLYMER PRICES
Standard thermoplastics in October 2008: Notations in free fall / PE collapses / Demand weak overall / Many production cutbacks / Market seeks the bottom of the spiral / Benzene “implosion” unravels styrene chain
 		05.11.2008
POLYMER PRICES
PET October 2008: Downward plunge accelerates as demand collapses / Overcapacities persist despite massive cutbacks / Feedstocks also move down sharply / No light at the end of the tunnel for now
 		05.11.2008
BASE PETROCHEMICALS / AROMATICS / FEEDSTOCKS
October 2008
 		05.11.2008
SIRCI
Italian pipe manufacturer to acquire Gresintex / Consolidating force in heavily fragmented market
 		05.11.2008
PEOPLE
Alessandro Macchi found shot to death / Domestic dispute suspected
 		05.11.2008
CHINA
Lower export duty on plastic products
 		04.11.2008
BASF
Acquisition of Recticel's PU car window specialities business
 		04.11.2008
UPM
New business group structure
 		04.11.2008
LYONDELLBASELL
High clarity metallocene-based copolymer launched
 		04.11.2008
FAIRS / EXHIBITIONS
“International exhibition of the plastics industry”
 		04.11.2008
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Recovery not expected before 2010 / Both OEMs and suppliers are feeling the heat
 		03.11.2008
BASF
Naphtha hedging hits third quarter 2008 earnings
 		03.11.2008
RANGER
French injection moulding company files for protection from creditors
 		03.11.2008
AUSTROTHERM
Third plant for EPS insulating materials in Hungary
 		03.11.2008
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