BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
Tags: BASF, build a compounding plant, polyamide, polybutylene terephthalate
US-based food-grade recycled PET or rPET producer CarbonLite has installed Buhler's SORTEX Sorting Technology to increase its output quality to near-perfect purity. Bühler's technology has the ability to conduct simultaneous, ...
Tags: recycled PET, Packaging
This review of strategies for improving the performance of polyamide thin-film composite (PA-TFC) reverse osmosis (RO ) membranes looks in particular at surface modifications and the incorporation of nanoparticles. Polyamide thin-film ...
The annual PCI Fibres Conference 2013 took place November 7-8, 2013, in Hong Kong. Topics included the supply of the various fiber raw materials and the situation in the Asia-Pacific Rim. It was an event full of valuable information and a ...
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The Packaging film market consumption will grow from an estimated 51.2 million MT in 2013 to 63.79 million MT by 2018, with a CAGR of 4.5% from 2013 to 2018, according to a new report. The report "Packaging Film Market - by application ...
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Arkema exhibited its Rilsan fine powders jointly with Viking Johnson (stand 305, Hall 1) at Aquatech 2013, in Amsterdam. Aquatech is one of the world's leading trade exhibition on process, drinking and waste water technology. Rilsan fine ...
Tags: Powders Coatings, Arkema
After signing an agreement in July with the Italian Ministry for the Environment to trial test a new methodology for calculating the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) introduced by the ...
Tags: Chimica Bags, OEF&PEF Certificates
The market research report "Flexible Packaging Market by End-Use (Food, Beverage, Personal Care & Pharmaceutical), Material (Polypropylene, BOPP, CPP, Polyethylene, EVOH, PA, BOPET, PVC, Aluminum, Paper, Cellulosic) - Global Trends & ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Food Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Carvico introduced to the market a New Fabric again: XLAnce Carvico seize this opportunity to developing this "Green" models - the new Xlance with environmentally friendly fabrics. The fabric is made of fine XLA elastic fiber and 100% ...
Tags: Textile, Xlance Fibre, Green Fabric
Carvico relaunches on the market one of the most innovative fabrics ever: XLAnce. The company has this time chosen to go the extra mile developing a “green” version of this classic, the brand new Xlance Eco which boasts ...
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By launching JL Renew, Jersey Lomellina has chosen to offer a range of sustainable fabrics, all produced with a 100% recycled polyamide, deriving from post-consumer materials: fishing nets, rigid tulle, carpet fluff etc... saved from the ...
The worldwide demand for carpet is rising at five percent annually, with production projected to reach 18.6 billion square meters per year by 2016, EU’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) said based on the ...
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The designer’s Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec‘s inspiration for organic shapes shines through with this sustainable chair design. It took these two brothers four years to develop the Vegetal Chair due to its in-depth prototype and ...
Tags: Vegetal Chair, Lighting
Following the filing of Chlorovinyls joint venture plan for EU clearance, Solvay is presenting the associated activities in discontinued operations as from Q3 2013. Accordingly all financials have been restated. -Group net sales down (8)% ...
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At this year's IDA the speciality chemicals company is planning to present the RO membrane elements in its Lewabrane series. At this year's IDA (International Desalination Association) World Congress, which is being held in Tianjin, China, ...