Following last year´s launch of “Styron A-Tech 1110” and “1120” as a completely new PS product family for glossy parts and coatings (see Plasteurope.com 11, 1999), PS world market leader Dow Plastics ...
M.A. Hanna Company (200 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2304, USA), an international specialty chemicals company, and Suzhou Plastic Factory No 1 (SPF1) announced an agreement to establish a ...
Addressing the difficult supply situation for C8/C10 trimellitates, Oxea (Dallas, Texas / USA; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has expanded its phthalate-free plasticiser range with “Oxsoft L9TM”, a linear ...
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd (HQ: Boltin, Ontario, Canada) is already expanding their Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) to meet a growing demand for their services. The 28,000 square foot ...
The 1995 merger of CarnaudMetalbox SA (CMB, 153 rue de Courcelles, F-75817 Paris Cedex 17) with Crown Cork & Seal Company Inc (9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19136, USA) created a new ...
A classic example of the willingness to take entrepreneurial risks is the acquisition of Zeneca Specialities by the company´s own management for GBP 1.3bn (nearly EUR 2bn) in what is the biggest ever ...
At the beginning of October 2022, Jens Harmeling and Jordan Kopping set up their business by founding the company Blueprint Advanced Manufacturing (Memmingerberg, Germany; www.blueprint-am.com). At ...
Krauss-Maffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH (D-80997 Munich; www.krauss-maffei.de) has developed a successful new system for the production of large-area, thin-walled parts in an enhanced RRIM process ...
Wavin Repox BV (J.C. Kellerlaan 3, PO Box 5, NL-7770 AA Hardenberg) has announced that it is to start producing glass fibre reinforced polyester pipes at its production site in Hardenberg, the ...
For the European group Elf Atochem (HQ: 4, cours Michelet La Défense 10, F-92091 Paris-La Défense) 1993 was marked by the recession in Europe, the impact of unsettled currencies, and above all a ...
In Spring 2000, Bischof + Klein GmbH & Co (B+K, D-49511 Lengerich), producers of flexible packaging in plastics and paper, founded a joint venture with different Saudi Arabian companies and investors.
Effective 1 October, the Hoechst group (HQ: D-65926 Frankfurt) founded a new company to incorporate its orientated polypropylene (OPP) films business, in advance of its planned joint venture with ...