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Simultaneous announcements on 11 October by Ticona / DSM and Bayer/DuPont have cast a different light on the European PBT market. The big surprise for most observers is that Bayer has changed horses ...

DMT S.A. (BP 270, Savoie-Technolac, F-73375 Le Bourget du Lac), which was only founded in 1990 by its current owners, Darlet and Marchante, has emerged as one of the world's leading suppliers of ...

"Twin Sheet Forming" involves precision manufacture of rigid cavity bodies of desired geometric proportions from two thermo-plastic sheets. This can be achieved by relatively minor, inexpensive ...

Plastics businesses of the new Celanese AG (HQ: D-65926 Frankfurt) outperformed the group´s chemical segments in 1999, ceo Claudio Sonder said at the recent annual results press conference. Earnings ...

India is the second largest recycler of PET bottles in the world, cited a year-long study conducted by scientists from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Chemical Laboratory ...

Just 12 months after being acquired by Zoltek, the US carbon fibre manufacturer, SP Systems (Newport, GB - Isle of Wight PO30 5WU) has been bought back by its management team, led by company founder ...

Silicone elastomers specialist Chase-Walton Elastomers Inc (Hudson, Mass/USA) is setting up a European base in the UK, in the Croxley Business Park, Watford. The facility will have on-line contact ...

Gruber Extrusion (Pettenbach / Austria; www.gruberextrusion.com) has developed its “Coflex” and “Coex-ring” profile coextrusion technology to reduce production costs while simultaneously benefitting ...

Ticona (D-65926 Frankfurt), the engineering plastics business of the new Celanese AG, has outlined its strategy for expanding its presence in Asia, where chairman and ceo Ed Muñoz said the company ...

ICT Coatings N.V. (E3-Laan 21, B-9800 Deinze) develops and markets special hard protective coatings for glass and plastic surfaces, for example PC, PMMA and PS. The protective coats are ...

The Chemicals segment of Asahi Glass (Europe: AGC Chemicals Europe, Thornton Cleveleys / UK; www.agcce.eu.com) is currently expanding capacity for the production of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE, ...