Cincinnati Milacron Extrusion Systems (Batavia, Ohio / USA; www.milacron.com) will unveil a new range of grooved feed single screw extruders at “K 2010” (www.k-online.de) in Düsseldorf / Germany in ...

Synbra Group (Etten-Leur / The Netherlands; www.synbra.com) is to take over the Portuguese market leader in EPS insulating systems and packaging, Plastimar (Mielec / Portugal; www.plastimar.pt). The ...

Multinational packaging group Tetra Pak (HQ: 70, Avenue General-Guisan, CH-1009 Pully/Lausanne) plans to acquire the Novembal group (Les Cheres, F-69480 Anse) from the French Nord Est Emballage group ...

Ormecon Chemie GmbH & Co KG (Ferdinand-Harten-Str. 7, D-22949 Ammersbek), global leaders in the field of fundamental and application-oriented research for conductive polymers (“organic metals”) has ...

The EC Commission has approved plans by Union Carbide Corp (UCC, USA) and Enichem SpA (Italy) to form a 50:50 polyethylene joint venture with the name Polimeri Europe SRI. Despite the designation ...

Owens Corning (Stafford Road, St Helens, GB-Merseyside WA10 3NS) has acquired the insulation business of Linpac Insulation (Hunter House Industrial Estate, Brenda Road, GB-Hartlepool TS25 2BE). The ...

Artenius, the PET resins division of plastic packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB, Barcelona / Spain; www.laseda.es/index_en.php), has developed a new PET ...

EPS producer StyroChem Finland (Porvoo; www.styrochem.fi) is to be merged with one of its customers, Norwegian family-owned packaging producer BEWi (Hamavik; www.bewi.no), to create what the companies ...

At an investment cost of EUR 40m, Klöckner Pentaplast (Montabaur / Germany; www.kpfilms.com) has raised capacity at its plants in Montabaur / Germany and Santo Tirso / Portugal as planned. The move ...

Norway´s Polimoon group (N-1025 Oslo; www.polimoon.com), has acquired Plastic Processing Competence Center (PPCC, F-01150 Blyes) from US packaging materials group Graham Packaging (York, Pennsylvania ...

The long-awaited shakeout in the market for acrylic polymers appears to have begun. The BASF group (HQ: D-67056 Ludwigshafen) has announced the sale of its lossmaking PMMA business to Dublin-based ...

Polymer producer and distributor Nuplex (Auckland / New Zealand; www.nupley.co.nz) has entered into an agreement to buy Acquos’ (Melbourne / Australia; www.acquos.com) Masterbatch business. Financial ...