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To accelerate driving the circular economy for styrenics forward, three of the world’s leading polystyrene producers, AmSty, Ineos Styrolution and Trinseo signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to jointly explore recycling options for polystyrene.
In close collaboration with Kraiburg TPE, medical components specialist Nextis (France) has developed an articulated cover designed to protect the USB port on respiratory devices against dust and splash water entry.
The Swiss trading group Meraxis and the leading integrated Central and Eastern European oil, gas and petrochemical company MOL Group are entering into a strategic partnership.
Borealis successfully completes the acquisition of a controlling stake in South Korean compounder DYM Solution Co. Ltd
The KHS Group and Ferrum AG are intensifying their longstanding cooperation. Pending approval from antitrust authorities, KHS GmbH will be acquiring a stake in Ferrum Packaging AG.
Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape.
In 2019, Master Kong beverage (Master Kong) in China opted to sign a two-year fixed price maintenance contract with Sidel for four of their aseptic complete PET lines producing ready-to-drink (RTD) teas in their plants in Langfang and Baotou.
Reifenhäuser India Marketing PVT Ltd. represents Buss on the Indian subcontinent. Both companies will support Buss in developing the compounding market in their respective regions.
Biesterfeld is expanding its long-term partnership with Evonik in the field of paints and varnishes.
Lafarge Zementwerke, a member of LafargeHolcim Group, OMV, Verbund and Borealis co-sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint planning and construction of a full-scale plant by 2030 to capture CO2 and process it into synthetic fuels, plastics or other chemicals.
Ascend Performance Materials announced today it signed an agreement to purchase the assets of NCM (Changshu) Co., Ltd., and Tehe Engineering Plastic (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., located in Changshu Yushan High-tech Industrial Park (known as “The Park”),
Syntegon Technology recently joined the Open-Scs Group. Joint goals include the fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the establishment of interoperable interfaces for the implementation of adequate serialization solutions.
Stork Plastics Machinery BV (Stork IMM) has signed an agreement with Chudleigh Sutch to distribute their range of injection moulding machines in North and South America.
Safic-Alcan, an international specialty chemicals distributor, is pleased to announce its extended exclusive distribution agreement with TRONOX for the whole ranges of TiONA TiO2 pigments in Benelux and Turkey, effective April 1st 2020 and May 1st 2020, respectively.
From May 1, Ultrapolymers will distribute the complete DOMO portfolio of PA6 and PA66, PPA and PPS based technical polymers.
Packaging company Scanfill is adjusting the production for a brand new market. The company will produce up to half a million face shields together with Plast Petter AB - every week.
Waste plastic will be diverted from landfill, incineration and the environment. The project reaffirms Ineos’ commitment to the circular economy.
As of 1 April 2020, PlastiKCs is nowactively selling Sumitomo (SHI) Demag injection moulding machines, as well as robotic systems and peripheral equipment for plastics processing companies in Belgium and Luxembourg.
TRB Lightweight Structures is using its material science knowhow and specialist equipment to produce vital personal protective equipment (PPE) based on the Foster + Partners design in the fight against COVID-19.
IMCD N.V. will be marketing and distributing Röhm’s entire portfolio of acrylic-based CYROLITE® copolymers and CYROLITE® MD products for the medical device and diagnostics markets in Europe except Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Borealis AG (“Borealis”) and NOVA Chemicals Corporation (“NOVA Chemicals”) today announced that Borealis has completed the acquisition of NOVA Chemicals’ 50% ownership interest in Novealis Holdings LLC (“Novealis”).
As part of BASF’s “Helping Hands” campaign in the fight against the corona pandemic, BASF is donating 100 million protective masks to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Macro Engineering and Technology Inc., a leading supplier of film and sheet extrusion systems, is pleased to announce the signing of a representation agreement with KLIŠE-KOP, a well-respected Company in Croatia.
Effective April 1st 2020, Safic-Alcan, an international specialty chemicals distributor, is pleased to announce an extended exclusive distribution agreement with TRONOX for TiONA® TiO2 pigments in France.
In a recent roundtable, Nanofabrica invited interested parties to discuss ways in which its one-micron resolution additive manufacturing technology (with a 5 x 5 x 10 cm build volume) could be harnessed to create speedy, innovative devices to work against COVID 19.
Biesterfeld is expanding its long-term partnership with South Korean manufacturer SONGWON.
Styrenics Circular Solutions welcomes Greiner Packaging, one of the leading European plastic packaging manufacturers. Forms part of SCS’drive to work together all along the value chain to fulfil the unique circularity capacity of polystyrene.
This week, Accumold would have been proudly exhibiting at the MedTec Live event. MedTec Live has been postponed due to the global response to Covid 19, and we look forward to being in Germany on the revised dates of June 30 - July 2nd 2020 if this is possible.
A coalition of companies and universities assembled by Stratasys to produce face shields leveraging 3D printers now numbers more than 150, the company said.
The possibility of increasing one's own efficiency and productivity through data collection and analysis, as well as developing new business models, fires the imagination of machine and plant manufacturers looking for new growth and profit opportunities.
Styrenics Circular Solutions welcomes Exiba as a new member. Key contributor to European thermal insulation sector joins SCS’ drive for full circularity of styrenics.
The water bottler Nera Kritis - as the name indicates - is headquartered on Crete. Its trademark: a multiplicity of different bottle shapes, the more eye-catching the better.
Clariant’s Additives business and Floreon-Transforming Packaging Limited announce an exciting new collaboration to further extend the performance properties and market potential of biopolymers, whilst preserving their environmental benefits.
DSM announces partnership with Sabic and UPM Biofuels to create bio-based Dyneema
At this year's Propak East Africa in Nairobi from 17 to 19 March, visitors to the shared trade fair stand (D9 in the Tsavo Hall) can find out how the recycling company Mr. Green Africa combines social responsibility with the highest specification technology and cost effectiveness.
From 3 March 2020, Rastede-based chemical company will offer complete portfolio to composites manufacturers, including Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Great Britain and Ireland.