China's surprise devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday, when the country's central bank set the official value of the renminbi about 2% weaker against the dollar, has not hit the petrochemicals complex in a significant way, industry ...
Tags: polymer, carbide PVC
Continuing the company’s ongoing commitment to provide customers with the high-performance solutions they need to create market-leading products, Sartomer announces the release of CN9030, a new difunctional aliphatic urethane ...
Italian packaging machinery company SIPA has launched two single-stage PET injection stretch blow moulders for small production runs. Sales manager Pietro Marcati said the ECS SP80 and ECS SP50 “fill the last gap” in the ...
Tags: PET injection, packaging machinery
China Daily-use Articles Trade Fair, or CDATF, is China’s longest standing one-stop event for the houseware industry. Organized in Shanghai every August, at the peak of sourcing season, it is the largest trade show of its ...
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Plastics, latex and rubber firm Trinseo has received US Food and Drug Association’s (FDA) approval for considering several grades of its Magnum ABS resins as food contact compliant. The approval of Food Contact Substance ...
Tags: ABS Resins, resins
Pharmaceutical packaging maker Gerresheimer is buying plastic vials and oral drug closures maker Centor US Holding for $725m, under an agreement signed with Nemera Development. The transaction, involving an all-cash acquisition that is ...
Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers (USW), has testified before the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, reiterating his opposition to lifting the long-standing crude oil export ban, ...
Tags: crude oil, export ban
Spain-based plastics technology centre AIMPLAS is spearheading a project called SINTEPOL that aims at finding new ways of biopolymer synthesis and modification routes through reactive extrusion processes. Biopolymers are produced from ...
Tags: packaging, packaging material, plastics
Although UV technologies were first introduced around 20-30 years ago, it is still considered not to be a mature sector with plenty of innovations needed to overcome barriers to greater efficiencies. Over the last few years growth in ...
BASF will form a global business unit (GBU) combining all of its pigments activities effective January 2016. In the second half of 2016, BASF intends to carve out its pigments business and establish separate legal entities. With sales of ...
Tags: Pigments, azo pigments, dyes
Lightweight composite materials firm Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has claimed that TCA Ultra Lite, currently in production for General Motors’ (GM) 2016 Chevrolet Corvette, has pared down 20lb (9kg) from the Stingray Coupe ...
Global Injection Machine (HS:847710) Export Market, from Jan. to Dec. 2014 (Listed by Export Value) Export Country/Region Export Value (Thousand USD) Compared to the Same Period of Last Year ...
Global Injection Machine(HS:847710)Import Market, from Jan. to Dec. 2014 (Listed by Import Value) Import Country/Region Import Value (Thousand USD) Compared to the Same Period of Last Year ...
China Injection Machine(HS:847710)Major Export Countries/Regions, from Jan. to Dec. 2014 (Listed by Export Value) No. Country/Region Total Compared to the Same Period of Last Year ...
Plastic Machinery Industry Exports, from Jan. to Dec. 2014 The total export value of China plastic machinery(HS:8477)has reached 3.31 billion USD in 2014, increasing by 7.5% compared to the same time of last year. Among this products, ...