Operator Butachimie (Chalampé / France; www.butachimie.eu) has announced that the triennial maintenance of its adiponitrile (ADN) plant in Chalampé, running since the end of September 2019, has been ...

Media reports indicate the problems associated with the financial structure of rigid film manufacturer Klöckner Pentaplast (kp, Montabaur / Germany; www.kpfilms.com) could soon be solved, pointing to ...

Automotive and commercial vehicle interiors supplier International Automotive Components (IAC, Luxembourg; www.iacgroup.com) has opened a 6,700 m² manufacturing facility that complements its current ...

In the wake of the mega merger of TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine to form TotalFinaElf, the chemical divisions of the two companies have also been united and restructured – as is manifested by the new ...

Celanese (Dallas, Texas / USA; www.celanese.com) is planning to expand production of "Pibiflex" and "Riteflex" thermoplastic copolyesters (TPCs) at its Donegani facility in Ferrara / Italy. The ...

Engineering plastics trading and consultancy specialist Man&Materials (Kapellen / Belgium) has acquired distribution rights in Europe, North and South America for polyphenylene ether (PPE or PPO) from ...

Turkish television equipment manufacturers control a substantial share of the European market. They already produce almost all important brands. At present, 55% of all television sets are made in ...

Changing of the guard at GE Plastics Europe (HQ: PO Box 117, NL-4600 Bergen op Zoom): Uwe Wascher, president and senior managing director since autumn 1990, has stepped down unexpectedly. The company ...

The takeover of Landis Plastics Inc (Chicago Ridge, Illinois / USA; www.landisplastics.com) by Berry Plastics Corp (Evansville, Indiana / USA; www.berryplastics.com) for USD 228m was scheduled to be ...

Chemical giants BASF (D-67056 Ludwigshafen; www.basf.com) and Honeywell (Morristown, New Jersey / USA; www.honeywell.com) have agreed to swap assets in polyamide. BASF will acquire Honeywell´s PA 6 ...

The plastics operations of steel group Voestalpine (Linz / Austria; www.voestalpine.com) are to be acquired by Inteva Products (European headquarters: Inteva Products Europe, Wuppertal / Germany; ...

Mitsubishi Chemical (MCC, Tokyo / Japan; www.m-chemical.co.jp/en) is expanding the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVOH) production plant of its US subsidiary ...