1:49 min Management, Facts & Figures
Acquisition

Platinum Equity to acquire Husky Injection Molding Systems

Platinum Equity announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ...
0:39 min Facts & Figures, Additives
Global price increase

Clariant to increase prices for masterbatch and compound products containing titanium dioxide, carbon black, pigments, dyes and several additives

Global price increase effective February 1st 2018 or as soon as contracts allow.
2:35 min Beverages, Management
Exhibitions

KHS presents new chunk dosing unit and compact systems at Anuga FoodTec

Compact systems for the food and dairy sectorsIndividuality and modularity meet ...
2:26 min Management
Management

ChemChina to list KraussMaffei on the Shanghai Stock Exchange

KraussMaffei is to become a subsidiary of the listed Qingdao Tianhua Institute of Chemistry Engineering Co. Ltd. The company headquarters remain in Munich, GermanyChemChina remains actual controller of KraussMaffeiThe planned transaction supports KraussMaffei’s further growth. The ...
3:90 min Management, Markets and Management, Non-Food, …
No. 6 among nearly 700 companies

P&G named one of the most effectively managed companies in America

In the inaugural ranking of the Most Effectively Managed Companies released by the ...
0:50 min Management, Beverages
Management

Coca‑Cola HBC AG announces appointment of Chief Executive Officer

Coca‑Cola HBC AG (“Coca‑Cola HBC” or “the Company”) today announces the appointment of Zoran Bogdanovic as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. He succeeds Dimitris Lois who passed away in October. Mr. Bogdanovic will also be nominated as an executive ...
2:40 min Management, Beverages
Management

PepsiCo names Mike Spanos, Chief Executive Officer, Asia, Middle East and North Africa

PepsiCo, Inc. today announced that, effective January 1, 2018, Mike Spanos, currently President, PepsiCo Greater China Region, will become Chief Executive Officer, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (AMENA), and Sanjeev Chadha, currently Chief ...
1:20 min Management
Management

Graham Partners to announce its second investment in the thermoformed packaging space

Graham Partners, a private investment firm targeting industrial technology and advanced manufacturing companies, is pleased to announce its second investment in the thermoformed packaging space, Tray-Pak Corporation (“Tray-Pak”). This investment was completed just one month ...
1:49 min Management
New polymer plants

thyssenkrupp to build two major polymer plants for SASA in Turkey

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer has signed a contract to build two new world-scale polymer plants for SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş in Adana, Turkey. One plant is planned to produce 1,050 metric tons per day (380,000 tons per year) of PET ...
0:11 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives, Facts & Figures

BASF increases prices of additives for plastics applications

Effective immediately, or as contracts allow, BASF is increasing the prices by 15 percent globally for a majority of products in its additives portfolio for plastic applications. Price increases will apply to the following product classes:AntioxidantsLight stabilizers, flame ...