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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2:40 min Management, Markets and Management

LyondellBasell and SUEZ purchase European plastics recycling company

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase a 50 percent stake in Quality Circular Polymers (QCP), a high standard plastics recycling company in ...
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1:35 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Recycling & Compounding, Quality control, service
Next steps for an organised Circular Economy

Plastics recyclers’ bales quality guidelines for EU waste collectors & sorters

Plastics recyclers released a set of bales quality guidelines to drive market transformation towards circularity. “It is time to understand that each product needs to be sorted towards a specific stream to keep the value of plastics,” said Ton Emans, PRE President and Chairman LDPE ...
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2:53 min Shrink packers
Palletising and intralogistics

Gebo Cermex brings intelligence and a complete end-of-line solution to Intermarché plant

Gebo Cermex, part of the Sidel Group, is renowned for its particular expertise in ...
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0:44 min Management
Management

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Niemeyer is leaving KHS at his own request

On December 31, 2017, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Niemeyer, chairman of the Executive Management Board at KHS GmbH, is leaving the company at his own request to face new challenges elsewhere. In his years in this post he has sustainably furthered technological product development, made ...
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1:19 min Management
Open House

Open House event focusing on "Rotomolding" at Maag in Grossostheim was a Full House

The Open House event on November 20/21 had already been the second occasion as part ...
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0:47 min
Management

Christoph Kückels leaves MHT

After 13 very successful years as Board Member of MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG Christoph Kückels will leave the company on November 30, 2017, to tackle new challenges elsewhere. Starting December 1, 2017, Christian Wagner, currently serving on the Executive Board ...
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1:16 min Digital printing
Digital printing

Codimarc takes its first step into digital with the Domino N610i ink jet label press

Codimarc, based in Oliveira Sao Mateus, Portugal is about to take its first step into digital colour label printing when it takes delivery of a Domino N610i ink jet label press in early December. Founded in 1997, Codimarc, as well as being a specialist label printer, is a ...
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1:19 min Mineral water, Quality control, service
Printing Technologies

Coding quality and reliability a clear winner for mineral water company

Printed code quality and machine reliability are the major benefits of two Linx 8920 ...
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1:55 min Management
Management

FrieslandCampina makes a fresh start in Germany

Investment in leading brandsBundling of commercial activities in North ...
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