Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging will spend about $115m at its Cooper River site to modernise three papermaking machines and to make other improvements for increasing the capacity and efficiency. In a statement released on ...
Tags: papermaking machines, Agriculture
“The CIF Bremen Index mildly followed the marginally downward movements in New York cotton futures in the current week,” a report from the Bremen Cotton Exchange, informs. It adds that mainly technical reasons were likely ...
Perstorp is increasing its investment in the bioplastics market by establishing a new pilot plant, extra technical resources and a new laboratory at Perstorp, Sweden. The company spends more than 85% of its R&D resources on finding ...
Tags: Bioplastics Market, e-polycaprolactones technology, Agriculture
The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
Vision Paper and Board, a paper and board supplier for the packaging industries, has entered into a partnership with high-quality packaging grade Tamfold. Tamfold, which is a part of the Stora Enso group, offers its products to companies ...
Tamfold, which is stocked hard-sized and FSC certified as standard, is said to offer excellent value, runnability and performance in pharmaceutical, food and chocolate packaging. The continuous product development of Tamfold has resulted ...
Tags: fast food packaging, Packaging
As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, cash cotton
So far, dual-clutch transmission (DCT) technology is only available in the award-winning Duonic gearbox available in Mitsubishi Fuso Canter class 4/5 trucks, but you'll be seeing more of it soon. Fuso was first with a DCT in a commercial ...
New York futures moved higher this week, with December advancing 209 points to close at 63.94 cents/lb, while March gained 174 points to close at 62.27 cents/lb. “After posting a low of 60.83 cents two weeks ago, nearby supply ...
Tags: Cotton, cash market
China-based Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd has awarded a contract to CB&I for the license and engineering design of a polypropylene line to be setup in Ningxia. The Shenhua Ningxia unit will use CB&I's Novolen technology to ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Coal Industry
US-based petrochemical major, ExxonMobil Chemical said it is increasing production of its high performance hydrocarbon fluids, which are used in aromatics industry, by about 10 percent through expansion at its Singapore and Antwerp plants. ...
Tags: ExxonMobil, Hydrocarbon Fluid
Perstorp, one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals, such as Capa, highlighted at UTECH Asia/PU China 2014 its growing commitment to China as the company's production platform in Zibo is being expanded to include a new Neopentyl ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers has announced plans to increase production capacity of its ethylene copolymers assets at its Texas manufacturing facilities to meet growing market demand. Plans include a series of investments ...
Tags: DuPont, Polymers Capacity, Construction
SE Tylose has appointed GMZ and EW Kaufmann as regional distributor partners for the Tylose product line of cellulose ethers. The complete portfolio of Methyl & Hydroxyethyl cellulose ether grades as they relate to paint polymerization ...
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal and Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau have jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive transaction agreement to sell their respective 50 percent interests in Gallatin Steel Company (Gallatin) to ...
Tags: Gallatin Steel, Nucor, ArcelorMittal