Following on from the ban on plastic tableware imposed on Taiwan’s government canteens and similar units last year, which continued on to the private sector last month, a new raft of problems has been identified.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recently given their blessing to the first ceramic on ceramic hip implant.
Hip implants or total hip replacements are used to replace hip joints in patients who have dise...
Dupont Engineering Polymers have acquired certain products of Eastman Chemical Company. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
The acquisition affects Eastman’s high performance crystalline plastics...
Bayer and Degussa are to sell PolymerLatex, their 50:50 joint venture to Soros Private Equity Partners for 235 million Euros.
PolymerLatex was founded in 1996 by Bayer and Degussa. It manufactures products in the pape...
M&G Polymers have just completed their acquisition of Rhodia-ster S.A. of Brazil from Rhodia.
Included in the acquisition were all the equity interests in Rhodia-ster including production assets:
A 200kt PET...
Sasol have just commissioned their new R1.16billion butanol plant in Sasolburg, South Africa.
Using technology licensed from Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Corp, the plant has an capacity to produce 150,000 tons of...
Noveon and PolyOne have joined forces to develop and distribute a line of Electrostatic Dissipative (ESD) compounds for the electronics industry. Together the two will be able to offer industry the broadest range of stat...
Konarka Technologies has just acquired Quantum Solar Energy Linz from Linz AG. In the process they have become the world leader in organic photovoltaics.
Quantum Solar will be renamed Konarka Austria Forschungs- u. En...
German chemical manufacturer Hoechst has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $12 million fine for conspiring to fix prices for monochloroacetic acid between 1995 and 1997.
Monochloroacetic acid is used in plastic additiv...
BASF have just increased the output of two of its operations.
Production capacity of their Ulsan/Korea polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) plant has been boosted from 30,000 tons per year to 40,000 tons per year by debottle...
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