2013-2014 Exhibitions
November 2013 Archives
Lead Features
Growth of synergistic technology combinations - K2013: Macchi takes a firm stand on five-layer polyolefin blown film lines
- K2013: Braskem goes international; targets auto and packaging sectors
- K2013: Rajoo displays barrier technology; ties up with supplier for European
sales/service - K2013: Lohia displays brand new name and strategy
- K2013: W&H lifts the veil to reveal the Varex II blown film line
Company News
- Amcor to increase its turnover with acquisition of Detmold
- Celanese to close French and Spanish plants
- Kuraray to buy DuPont’s glass and vinyls business
- Petronas/Versalis jv for synthetic rubber production at RAPID
- Petronas Chemicals opts out of PVC; parent firm to sell Canadian shale gas stake
- Lanxess lowers profit reach; Asia boost to sales but rubber challenging
- Soft market not deterring Borealis’s 3Q net
- Chemtura opens lubricant/urethanes facility in China
- DuPont to spin-off Performance Chemicals unit to shareholders
- Mexichem/Occidental in jv for ethylene cracker
- Nycoa purchased by Sunil and Monica Kumar
Materials News
- Sabic opens third R&D facility in Asia
- BASF offers biobased BDO for trialling
- Easy to open poly-woven pinch bottom bags
- BMS invests in R&D for foam production
- Elevance launches biochemicals made at Asian plant
- M&G to build straw-based bio-ethanol plant in China
- An era of better plastics
- Boeing and Hexcel invest US$17 mn in Malaysian facility expansion
- Evonik to expand IP and IPD chemical capacities in China
- Solvay and 3F jv to produce PTFEs in China
- Indorama to moth-ball UK plant; improves 3Q earnings
- ExxonMobil's tubular tail technology to increase output at Thai plant
- FKuR starts up compounding line for the production of biopolymers
- Aonix picks Taiwan as its Asian base
- Versalis, Lotte form jv for elastomers
- Celanese further invests in POM capacity in Asia/Middle East
- Bioplastics given a boost with reduction of plastics use in EU
- Dow PU to expand its capacities in Thailand and the US
- CP sells its PS plant in China
