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Styrolution Has Nominated an Increase of Eur30/Mt for Its Polystyrene Contracts in May

May 8, 2014

Styrolution has nominated an increase of Eur30/mt ($42/mt) for its polystyrene contracts in May, the company said on its website Tuesday. The premium of its high impact polystyrene grade over general purpose grade was unchanged Eur105/mt. ...

Tags: Polystyrene, Styrolution

Styron on Thursday Raised The Prices of Its General Purpose Polystyrene

Jan 8, 2014

Hong Kong-based Styron on Thursday raised the prices of its general purpose polystyrene and high-impact polystyrene grades by $50/mt due to rising production costs. The notice did not disclose the previous or revised prices. The company ...

Tags: Styron, Polystyrene

Packaging Design for Sustainability

Dec 9, 2013

I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...

Tags: Packaging, Printing

GSI Has Joined TSC and Released a New Standard

Sep 6, 2013

International product and supply chain standards setter GS1 has added packaging sustainability to its raft of data tracking capabilities, announcing it has joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and released a new standard, the Global ...

Tags: Packaging, Printing

NWE ABS,PS Producers Are Raising Their Competitiveness in Order to Retain Market Share

Jun 14, 2013

Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...

Tags: acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene, polystyrene producers

Styrolution Europe Has Nominated a Eur25/mt Increase in Its Polystyrene Contract Price

Jun 7, 2013

Styrolution Europe has nominated a Eur25/mt increase in its polystyrene contract price for June from May, the company said Tuesday. The company did not provide an outright value for its contracts but added that the premium of its high ...

Tags: GPPS, Styrolution, Chemicals

Synthos Has Begun an Emergency Shutdown of All Units at Its Petrochemical Complex

Jun 5, 2013

Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...

Tags: Petrochemical, Vltava Floods

Iran Decided to Keep Its Export Ban on Polymers

Jan 10, 2013

Iran has decided to keep its export ban on polymers like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, general purpose polystyrene, high impact polystyrene, polypropylene, polycarbonates and epoxy resins despite having lifted a ban on exports of other ...

Tags: Iran, export ban, polymers, polymers market

Styrolution Announced a $66/Mt Increase on All US Polystyrene Resins

Dec 20, 2012

Styrolution announced a 3-cent/lb($66/mt)increase on all US polystyrene resins,effective January 1,a company source said Wednesday. Styrolution's move followed an announcement by Americas Styrenics Tuesday that it would raise its US ...

Tags: Styrolution, 3-cent/lb, US polystyrene resins, benzene

The L/LDPE Price Bubble Has Truly Burst with Notations Tumbling in June

Aug 2, 2012

L/LDPE The L/LDPE price bubble has truly burst with notations tumbling in June. Producers initially hoped to limit the downward price adjustment in line with the ?20/tonne drop in the June ethylene contract price but were swiftly forced to ...

Tags: market view, Plastics prices

Plastics Prices Finished Down Last Month Across Much of Asia

Sep 1, 2011

Plastics prices finished down last month across much of Asia, with the trend affecting a broad swath of the market. Lower oil prices pulled down the cost for some plastic feedstock materials' prices, and demand was soft as well as buyers ...

Tags: plastics

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