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With the divestment of a third polypropylene plant, new polyolefins giant Basell (HQ: NL-2132 Hoofddorp; www.basell.com) has fully complied with the EU Commission´s requirement that the 50:50 joint ...

German PVC profiles manufacturer Aluplast GmbH (D-76275 Ettlingen; www.aluplast.de) intends to breach the 100,000 t/y threshold for PVC for window and door profiles this year. As a result, the company ...

The Dutch Pillo-Pak Sentinel Group (PSG, Coldenhovenseweg 89, NL-6961 EC Eerbeek) have introduced their newly developed mailing bag "Airkraft Bag-in-Bag" as a world novelty. The cushioned bag consists ...

Chemtura (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / USA; www.chemtura.com) will lift production capacity of its “Adiprene” low free (LF) MDI polyurethane elastomers at its plant in Latina / Italy by the end of ...

Eastman Chemical (Europe: NL-3013 Rotterdam; www.eastman.com) has officially abandoned plans announced last February to split into two stock-market listed companies for speciality chemicals and ...

Artenius, the PET resins division of plastic packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB, Barcelona / Spain; www.laseda.es/index_en.php), has developed a packaging ...

PetroFina and Montedison have agreed terms for the purchase by PetroFina of the Montedison group's interest in the polypropylene production joint venture Montefina SA located in Feluy, Belgium. The ...

The Austrian group Polytec Kunststofftechnik (Kiesstr. 12, A-4614 Marchtrenk) is buying Holden Hydroman (Porthouse Industrial Estate, Bromyard GB-Herefordshire HR7 4NS) for GBP 3.7m cash from the ...

Recent events behind the scenes at automotive supplier Woco Industrietechnik (Bad Soden-Salmünster / Germany; www.wocogroup.com) remain a matter for speculation but the outcome is no secret: founder ...

GE Plastics BV (HQ: PO Box 117, NL-4600 AC Bergen op Zoom) reports a significant breakthrough in the development of conductive plastics, "once again setting standards in plastics technology": An ...

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 ...