Belgian compounder and distributor Ravago (Arendonk; www.ravago.com) has acquired the thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounding business of Polyprime (Grand Prairie ...

Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (ORPIC, Sohar / Oman) has awarded a contract to CB&I (The Woodlands, Texas / USA; www.cbi.com) to provide ethylene technology and front end engineering 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 new PET ...

With its “PPO S 120 Resin”, GE Plastics Europe (NL-4600 AC Bergen op Zoom) is introducing a new PPE-based additive for SBC and epoxy blends. The low-molecular polymer is claimed to improve the thermal ...

Sekisui Alveo (Lucerne / Switzerland; www.sekisuialveo.com), a manufacturer of crosslinked polyolefin foams, has developed a laminated block foam in its “Alveobloc” product family for automotive ...

The technology for the cyclic butylene terapthalate CBT produced by US start-up Cyclics (Europe: NL 4600 AC Bergen op Zoom; www.cyclics.com) was developed by GE Plastics and acquired by Cyclics´ ...

In what it claims is a breakthrough, Dutch chemical group DSM (Sittard; www.dsm.com) has launched a hydrolysis-resistant polyester that can be used in automotive engine compartments. The company says ...

Twenty-one years after it first entered into a joint venture with Bühler Vermögensverwaltung, leading European masterbatch producer Gabriel-Chemie Group (Gumpoldskirchen / Austria; ...

After starting business on 1 July, the new BASF/Hoechst polypropylene joint venture, Targor GmbH (Rheinstr. 4 G, D-55116 Mainz), is well on its way to becoming a recognised player in its own right.

In the nearly two years following its entry into the market as a regional player, the Saudi Arabian Sabic group (Riyadh; www.sabic.com) has sharpened its European profile. A major step towards ...

Moplefan SpA (Via Taramelli 26, I-20124 Milano), a company of the Montell group (HQ: Montell Polyolefins bv, PO Box 625, NL-2130 AP Hoofddorp) and Tecno Jolly SpA (Via Raspini 3, I-10036 Settimo ...

As part of a move to realign its European production structure, A. Schulman (Akron, Ohio; www.aschulman.com) is closing several materbatch lines at its Crumlin site in Wales / UK and moving 10,000 t/y ...