Dr. Hermann Schnell was posthumously awarded one of the highest honors in the plastics industry when he was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame this year. The Plastics Academy Hall of Fame was founded in 1972 to honor those who have made major contributions to the growth and ...

Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) announced today the mechanical completion of the expansion of specialty copolyester capacity at its manufacturing site in Columbia, S.C.  The additional copolyester production is expected to come on-line June 2008.This expansion is consistent with ...

As of early 2008, the Freilassing (Germany)-based company KIEFEL GMBH is represented by its own sales office in China. The KIEFEL China Office is embedded in the structure of the Brückner Group, which has been successfully operating in China for several years as Brueckner Machinery ...

BioGaia AB has concluded a global collaborative agreement with Bericap Sarl, the French subsidiary to the German Bericap Group, which is one of the world´s largest manufacturers of caps and other package closures, with 20 factories in 18 countries that produce approx. 50 billion ...

BASF SE  has awarded a contract to engineer and supply its proprietary 2 R process for the BASF Ecoflex® project to Uhde Inventa-Fischer. The plant will be built in Ludwigshafen (Germany) and will have an annual capacity of 60,000 tons of Ecoflex® polymer. It is scheduled to start ...

Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, achieved significant growth in the first quarter of 2008. Sales were 17.9 % up on the preceding year’s figure, at 595.2 million euros. Order bookings climbed by 9.0 % to reach 607.3 million euros. On 31 ...

Krones AG, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, achieved new record highs in all its major figures during the 2007 business year. Sales rose by 12.8 % over the preceding year to reach 2,156.0 million euros. Order bookings were up by 16.9 % at ...

Futura is a producer of BarPET/BeerPET, a PET/PTN Alloy containing 10% PTN1.BarPET/BeerPET has been developed to enhance thermal stability and further improve gas, UV and water vapour barrier properties of PET packaging. The BarPET/BeerPET solution is targeted mainly at products ...

Multisorb Technologies, the world leader in advanced active packaging technology, announced today the appointment of Robert Sabdo to the position of Business Development Leader, Food & Beverage Packaging. In this role, Sabdo will be responsible for expanding Multisorb’s business in ...

Cost-efficency is highly valued everywhere. In plastics processing, the drying of ...