Company news, polymer materials

BOREALIS Escalating feedstock prices hit first half profit	12.08.2008
HOLLIDAY PIGMENTS Ultramarine business sold to Rockwood Holdings / “Excellent bolt-on acquisition”	12.08.2008
PKN ORLEN Work commences on EUR 1.16 bn PTA facility	08.08.2008
TICONA K.D. Feddersen distribution partnership expands	08.08.2008
ALMAAK Takeover of the compounding business of insolvent J&A / Focus in future on toll compounding / Belgian offshoot unaffected	01.08.2008
POLYONE Eight plants to close in realignment / Job losses of 150 / Annual savings of USD 17m expected	31.07.2008
SABIC EUROPE Restructuring at Teesside in UK / Two “unviable” aromatics units to shut / Exit from polyester chain	31.07.2008
DUPONT New “Vespel” polyimide plant starts in Singapore	31.07.2008
DUPONT PA and PPA capacity increases in China	30.07.2008
LA SEDA Talks on merger with Indorama / Result still open / Analysts sceptical	29.07.2008
COMPTEK Expansion in fluoropolymer compounds	29.07.2008
TICONA New 20,000 t/y UHMW-PE plant starts up at Nanjing	28.07.2008
PETKIM New owners to double capacity in five years	28.07.2008
SABIC First half 2008 sales increase by 54%	25.07.2008
LEL Turkey's Kemiropa joins European distribution network	25.07.2008

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