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 ...

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 ...

Elastomer distribution specialist Alliance Polymers & Services (Romulus, Michigan / USA; www.apstpe.com) has expanded its range of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) developed by Nantong Polymax ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Employees at Woco Industrietechnik (Bad Soden-Salmünster / Germany; www.wocogroup.com) are taking a 20% cut in pay and working hours from 1 January to 30 June 2009 under a new agreement that ...

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 ...

Greiner Packaging (Kremsmünster / Austria; www.greiner-gpi.com) has acquired all the shares of Capsnap Europe (Kremsmünster / Austria; www.capsnap.at), a leading manufacturer of five-gallon ...

British Vita (Middleton, Manchester, GB-Greater Manchester M24 2DB; www.britishvita.com) has sold its Vitacom rubber compounding business to a management team, headed by managing director Chris Turner ...

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