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British Plastics & Rubber News - November 22nd 2008 -
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BASF to cut production across the board as demand plummets
November 19, 2008 BASF "the world's biggest chemical company" is to shut down 80 production units and reduce production at another...read more
SABIC/Exxon plan Saudi elastomers project
November 19, 2008 A multi-billion dollar project to make elastomers in Saudi Arabia is being considered by Saudi Basic Industries ...read more
Mould man takes charge at Milacron
November 19, 2008 New president and chief executive of Milacron is Dave Lawrence, president of global mould technologies for Milac...read more
Alphacan to sell off PEX pipes division
November 13, 2008 Arkema Group company Alphacan is to sell its cross linked polyethylene pipes business to French company COMAP, a...read more
Approvals for bottle-to-bottle recycling of PET/MXD-6
November 13, 2008 The European Plastics Recyclers association EuPR has adopted the rules published last month by Petcore (PET cont...read more
New factory increases plating-on-plastics capacity
November 13, 2008 Production has started at Quality Plated Plastics' new factory alongside its old premises at Great Barr in Birmi...read more
Ineos combines upstream and downstream olefins businesses
November 12, 2008 The upstream and downstream operations of Ineos' European polyethylene and polypropylene business are to be comb...read more
DuPont sues Invista over nylon 66 production
November 12, 2008 DuPont has played a further card against Invista's accusation of theft of trade secrets and has filed its own in...read more
WEEE-sourced material goes into white goods
November 12, 2008 White goods manufacturer Indesit is, according to WRAP, "the first company to successfully incorporate recycled ...read more
Lucite sold to Mitsubishi Rayon
November 11, 2008 Lucite International is being bought by Mitsubishi Rayon Co of Japan for approximately $1·6 billion....read more
It's K time
November 11, 2008 The publicity machine for the K fair in 2010 has now lurched into motion with news of a special presentation at ...read more
Borealis names Basell technology
November 11, 2008 Borealis will be using LyondellBasell's Lupotech T technology to build a 350,000 tonnes LDPE plant for star...read more
Ineos to cut US PP capacity
November 10, 2008 Two American polypropylene lines are to be shut down by Ineos. The bulk phase units at the Ineos Olefins & Polym...read more
'World's biggest' single PP line starts up
November 10, 2008 What is described as "the world's single largest polypropylene train" has been started up in Saudi Arabia by Sau...read more
Reduction expands with Scheer buy
November 10, 2008 German pelletiser manufacturer C F Scheer has been bought by Reduction Engineering of the USA. Scheer has been m...read more
Polystyrene price falls
November 7, 2008 A welcome note from Ineos Nova in these troubled times: it has reduced the price of polystyrene. The company says...read more
 
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British Plastics & Rubber - October 2008

Pipe & Profile - 

Total inspection of small diameter 

medical tube


Design - 

SABIC adds electrical/electronic toolbox

 

Engineering Materials - 

TPUs are soft but unplasticised

 

Additives - 

Nano-scale silicon improves nylon flow

 

Injection Moulding - 

Trexel links with Arburg to promote MuCell

 

Reclamation & Recycling - 

Closed Loop to build second 

British bottle reclaim plant



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