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April 2014 Archives
Lead Features
Chinaplas 2014: Borouge keeps busy in 2014; Asia prominent in growth plans- Chinaplas 2014: Husky leaves no stones unturned for hot runners; new line-up
presented - Chinaplas 2014: Davis-Standard basks in successful operations in China/Asia
- Chinaplas 2014: PolyOne expands R&D in Shanghai; realigns Asian centres
- Chinaplas 2014: TSRC opens SBC plant in Nantong; more expansions to follow
- Chinaplas 2014: Jinhui to sell bio PABT to foreign markets
- Piovan: 50 years as a key player in the world of plastics
- Davis-Standard: Moving up the global curve
- Navigating in Asia with packaging at the helm
- Is Asia ready for the market?
Company News
- Bayer considering selling plastics division?
- Songwon acquires SeQuent ‘s specialty chemicals business
- Octal hits all-time high billion record sales
- Indorama expands to Turkey with purchase of SASA
- MMA 2014: Biennial industry show to boost further Singapore’s medical manufacturing
- Taghleef to strengthen European position with purchase of Spanish film maker
- Lanxess starts up Brazil plant; output for auto sector
- Exhibitors’ Council meet for K2016; Chairman retains post
- BASF/Sinopec start-up Chinese acrylic acid and SAP plants
- ExxonMobil's STC to showcase demos during Chinaplas
- Petronas board approves US$27 bn Pengerang development
- Wacker sets up base in the Philippines
Materials News
- Malaysia to house Verdezyne’s biobased DDDA plant; Sime Darby major stakeholder
- DuPont fluorochemicals to produce new foam solution
- Colloids to set up first plant outside UK, in China
- BASF reinforcing amines leadership with new plant in Germany
- Lubrizol targeting CPVC capacity in India for pipe systems
- Borealis to increase XLPE capacity by 20 kilotonnes
- New Solar Impulse ultralight plane unveiled
- First biobased pigments; feedstock from Myriant
- Evonik starts new R&D project for medical technology in the US/Germany
- Lanxess to mothball pilot plants; tests on new butyl rubber process successful
- Well-deserved make over
- Suppliers’ trump card in the market
Machinery News
- Reifenhäuser sells ten extrusion lines with new polishing stack
- Erema ups orders; Intarema boosts sales
- Lotte to start up 200 kt PET plant in the UK with new pelletiser
- Two-ply film process with 100% scrap material
- Maag/Automatik to supply systems to M&G's largest PET plant in the US
- AMUT offers new system to improve recycled PET quality
- Siapi claims highest speed with new blow moulder
- Lanxess’s material testing centre adds on creep testing machinery
- Rajoo offers new flat drip irrigation plant for India’s agro industry
- Erema adds up more global facilities for trials and technical support
- Contitech expands to blow moulding with acquisitions
- KraussMaffei Berstorff develops new cost-effective process for LVT production
