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November 2011

COMPANY NEWS

Mexican pipe maker aims for leading position

Evonik centres focus on Asia

Victrex's Japanese technology centre

PET film maker to expand

Indorama reaps in a bounty

Chinese oxo plant to use American process

Sino/European alliance expands reach of tobacco films

MATERIALS NEWS

Turning waste films into something useful

PLA film for packaging applications

Films to combat counterfeiting

EVOH composites with barrier additive

Using SMA to boost ABS's temperature

Coloured medical-grade TPESa

New material increases temperature limit

MACHINERY NEWS

Kiefel cashing in on cup forming in Asia

Schwing's sales swing to Asian markets

Basking in Asian growth

Two-in-one pelletiser

South Korean to set up BOPP film plant

Thai's push for better technology

INJECTION MOULDING ASIA

New PPs do not impart odours

KM drives away with BMW's large order

New unit to focus on battery production

IMHP technique with improvements

Batch series production of auto parts

Chinese auto parts supplier aiming for leading position

Malaysian auto tie-up for IAC

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New unit to focus on battery production

ue to the growth of the global battery marketplace, German supplier BASF is creating a new business unit, Battery Materials, that will bring together its current and future battery-related electromobility activities, effective 1 January 2012.

This business unit will integrate the existing battery activities of BASF's Catalysts division, which focuses on cathode materials development; its Intermediates division, which is focuses on electrolyte formulations, and BASF Future Business which is focuses on next-generation lithium battery opportunities.