After a successful reorganisation, Bayer is to spin off certain parts of its polymers and chemicals business to concentrate on its core businesses of health care, nutrition and innovative materials.
Under the proposed...
Australia’s confectionary manufacturer Cadbury Schweppes will be the first manufacturer in the world to implement a new form of environmentally friendly packaging. They will use the biodegradable polymeric material...
The Thermopole is a new polymer based lamp post developed to reduce the risk to motorists in a collision. The polymeric lamp posts have been designed to be able to absorb much of the force, reducing the amount of force a...
Carlos Gonzalez from the Department of New Materials at CIDETEC has developed a cosmetic item called ‘electrochromic false nails’.
The electrochromic false nails can be applied over existing nails and can ...
International chemicals and plastics distributor JLM Industries have agreed to be bought out and privatised.
The purchase offer was made by an investor group lead by the company’s founder John Macdonald and prin...
BASF have invested in Korean plastic film manufacturer I-Components. Through their venture capital investment company BASF Venture Capital GmbH, they will provide I-Components with 2.5 million Euros. STIC Ventures is ano...
The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have developed the first plastic semiconductor transistor array entirely patterned using jet printing.
Jet printing provides an alternative to more conventional vacuum deposition a...
BASF will cease production of many of their polystyrene resin grades from their Ludwigshafen plant as of July 1, 2004. This will effectively reduce their sales volume from the compounds market by 100,000 metric tons.
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Japan’s Kuraray Co are to increase their production capacity of thermoplastic elastomers, in particular hydrogenated styrene elastomers from their Kashima plant.
The capacity increase will see production rise 4,...
The London Metals Exchange has announced that it is working with the plastics industry to establishing a futures contract for the industry.
Primarily they have been looking at polyolefins, but have also expressed an i...
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