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Battery materials meet recycling: BASF is the first company to establish a co-located battery materials and recycling center and close the loop in the European battery value chain
Demand for injection PE has strengthened this week, according to Polish traders. ‘We get the most enquiries for injection HDPE and LDPE and the fewest requests for PP homopolymers from converters,’ one of the market players has reported. Converters that make products from PP complain about limited polymer availability.
The situation has been unclear in the Polish polyolefin market in the first week of July. Traders have informed that converters are actively asking for quotes, but few of them are buying the commodities. Converters of polypropylene, its copolymers in particular, are the most active.
In H2 June, converters have been slow to make new purchases regardless of special offers, discounts and traders minimal margins in anticipation of another price reduction next month
Collectives, broad representation of foreign exhibitors and buyers, focus on networking
The general Assembly of Amaplast appointed as Chairman for the two-year term 2023-2025 Mr Massimo Margaglione (GEFIT spa, injection moulds). Elected as Vice-Chairmen of the Association: Gabriele Caccia (SYNCRO srl, feeding/metering equipment and control devices) and Ms Barbara Ulcelli (IMG srl, injection moulding machines).
The Polish polyolefin market was mainly inactive in H1 June.
Neste has made the final investment decision to commence construction of upgrading facilities for liquefied plastic waste at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
Formnext has reimagined its conference design to meet the increasing demand for more in-depth opportunities to share knowledge and ideas about the Additive Manufacturing sector.
We talk to Ada Leung, General Manager of Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, about this year's Chinaplas, exhibitors and participants, and the portfolio of products and techniques presented in Shenzhen.
First meeting of Exhibitors’ Council for plastics and rubber flagship fair in Düsseldorf Ulrich Reifenhäuser will retain position of Chairman
Dr Stephan Glander (54), with effect of 1 April 2023, has taken over as CEO of the Biesterfeld Group, one of the leading international distributors of plastics, rubbers and specialty chemicals.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre shows that Mura’s HydroPRS Technology has a global warming potential that is circa 50% lower than the other advanced recycling process.
Formnext has hit the ground running in 2023 with the highest number of registrations to date. By the end of February, more than 550 companies had signed up to attend the world's leading trade show for AM technologies and next-generation manufacturing; 62% of them from outside Germany.
Each year, the JEC Composites Innovation Awards celebrate successful projects and cooperation between players of the composites industry. These composites champions are awarded based on multiple criteria such as partner involvement in the value chain, complexity, or commercial potential of the project.
SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals industry, has signed an agreement with Coolbrook, a transformational technology and engineering company.
Nova Chemicals Corporation, a leading supplier of polyethylene (PE) for food packaging, announced today that it delivered a commercialized FDA-compliant high-density recycled polyethylene (rPE) resin to market.
Safic-Alcan, a leading distributor of specialty chemicals, has announced the acquisition of 4Plas Ltd. and its exclusive distribution agreement with Schützen Chemical Group.
Winners will be announced at PRSE in Amsterdam on 11 May.
45 webinars on Lanxess products, services and strategic alignment
Teknor Apex introduces New Crealen – an Innovative Glass Filled Halogen Free Flame Retardant Polypropylene (HFFR PP)
Solvay has announced that the production of its hydroquinone (HQ) and hydroquinone monomethylether (MeHQ), has been accredited to comply with the mass balance accounting regime of the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus system.
Neste, Borealis, Uponor and Wastewise Group enable chemical recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic waste into new high-quality plastic pipes
Ineos Olefins Belgium has today announced it has raised €3.5 billion to support the construction and operation of the most environmentally sustainable cracker in Europe.
30% absolute reduction of water and waste until 2030, from a 2019 base year
With the partnership of the two companies, customers in the Swiss market will also benefit from future synergy effects.
During the first Silicone Expo Europe in Amsterdam, Sigma Engineering presents the new version 6.0 of Sigmasoft Virtual Molding.
Borealis has acquired a majority stake in Renasci N.V., a Belgium-based provider of innovative recycling solutions and the creator of the novel Smart Chain Processing (SCP) concept.
In 2023, Interplas, the definitive and longest running UK plastics exhibition will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. Amidst a host of exciting features and new developments is the return of the PlastikCity pavilion for the third edition since its debut in 2017.
Safic-Alcan enters into an agreement with Nouryon to distribute the Perkadox and Trigonox crosslinking peroxides across Europe as of the 1st January 2023.
Sustainable solutions provider Perstorp is investing in a unique project that will allow it to use wastewater from a nearby municipal treatment plant for production operations in Stenungsund, Sweden. This will save 1.1 billion litres of fresh water per year.
The innovative coating is powered by Arkema’s Kynar Aquatec PVDF latex and provides extreme durability to keep NASA’s red “worm” logo on the solid rocket boosters intact while soaring to space.
Plast Eurasia Istanbul Fair, world’s 3rd largest plastics industry fair has gathered 1087 participant companies from 41 countries and 64.047 professional visitors from 115 countries at Tuyap Fair and Convention Center in Istanbul on November 23-26, 2022
During the General Assembly of Chemical Recycling Europe (CRE), Mr. Carlos Monreal, Founder & CEO of Plastic Energy, has been reelected as CRE President for the next two years.
Arkema will be exhibiting at the tradeshow in Munich from November 28 to 30th 2022, the world’s largest multi-segment trade fair for the sports business.
The beginnings of the rubber industry in Poland were in the first half of the 19th century