1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling

Individual plastics coloring for highest standards

Masterbatches, pigment mixtures, liquid dyes and coloring pastes: for more than 65 years Finke has provided innovative coloring solutions and supported users from design stage to final product.
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0:56 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Sheets & Films
A sheet line for 2mm-thick PET sheet

SML recently unveiled an innovative extrusion line for the production of PET sheet in a thickness range of up to 2mm

The importance of PET as a raw material for countless thermoforming applications is clearlyon the rise. Moreover, the market is not only demanding more environmentally acceptable rawmaterials, which should offer a high degree of recyclability (as PET does), but also thicker ...
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1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling

Individual plastics coloring for highest standards

Masterbatches, pigment mixtures, liquid dyes and coloring pastes: for more than 65 years Finke has provided innovative coloring solutions and supported users from design stage to final product.
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2:46 min Markets and Management, Strategies & Market Analysis, Materials, Processing & Handling

Indorama Ventures and Huvis to Form Joint Venture to Produce High Value-Added Products in USA

Extends complementary capabilities of Indorama Ventures and Huvis to deliver customer value proposition and accelerate profitable growth Builds position as one of leaders in Low Melting Fiber (LMF) in low tax environment in the U.S.A. Strengthens both Huvis’s and Indorama Ventures’ ...
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1:16 min Biobased Material, Materials, Processing & Handling

PEF pilot phase set to be extended

Avantium N.V. today announces that Synvina, its joint venture with BASF, plans to extend the pilot phase in order to optimize future commercial-scale production.Synvina has now completed a broad feasibility assessment for commercial-scale production of FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) ...
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1:28 min Management, Markets and Management, Materials, Processing & Handling

Samanyar Tongnat joins Nordson as Southeast Asia Regional Sales Manager for Pelletizers and Melt Delivery Equipment

Nordson Corporation has appointed Samanyar Tongnat as its regional sales manager in Southeast Asia for pelletizers and melt delivery systems.
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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.
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2:44 min Biobased Material
Bioplastics

Global market for bioplastics to grow by 20 percent

The results of European Bioplastics’ annual market data update, presented today at ...
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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 ...
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2:15 min Additives
Colour Trends

Clariant giving color/trend forecast a makeover

ColorForward® 2019 slated for release in January13th Edition to be more informative, ...
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