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Engineering plastics company signs AMP as distributor to France and the Maghreb

A. Schulman appointed as distributor for Mexico

Radka to distribute ABS portfolio in central/eastern Europe

Initiative to reduce lead times and improve customer service for ABS products

North American distributor appointed / Part of strategy to expand outside Europe

Mito Polimeri to distribute product range across Italy

Engineering Thermoplastics in December 2012: Rollover dominates / Occasional signs of weakness / Supply suffices to meet sluggish demand / Rising benzene notations increasingly make themselves felt / Fresh calls for price hikes for ABS and PC

Life is a roller coaster ride, the European plastics industry finds again in 2012 / Forces majeures and consolidation / North-South profitability gap grows as the shadow of Middle East and China shrinks

Price hike for “Elix” styrene copolymers

Immediate styrene copolymer price increase

Engineering Thermoplastics in July 2012: ABS, PA and PP feel the effect of June's feedstock slide / PC, PBT and POM stable / PMMA up slightly / Back pressure generated by reversal of feedstock notations / August still stable

European price hike for ABS

Price hike for European ABS grades

European ABS prices to rise

Baudhuin appointed president and CEO / Sale of Kobusch-Sengewald completed

Sun European Partners acquires Spanish ABS subsidiary Elix Polymers / Meeting remaining EC preconditions for styrenics jv

Agreement to distribute Elix Polymers' ABS grades in select European countries

Ineos' ABS plant in Tarragona is divested as part of Styrolution deal / Plans to be sold and rebranded

Elix Polymers subsidiary raises modifier and SAN prices

Elix Polymers calls for renewed price hike for SAN, modifiers

Elix Polymers subsidiary calls for higher modifier, SAN prices