Keyword: Plastics & Polymers

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Styrolution Announces Changes to its Management Board and Organizational Structure

08.01.2013 - Styrolution today announced new appointments to its management board, the formation of a new global business unit for styrene monomer and a regional focus on the company's polymer...

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BASF Opens CSB Production Site in Bahrain

18.12.2012 - Today, BASF is opening a state-of-the-art production site for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This is the largest facility of this kind...

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Niche French Chemical Firms Ride U.S. Shale Gas Wave

05.12.2012 - France may have banned the controversial hydro-fracking extraction technology, but the shale gas revolution in the United States is proving a boon for small, specialised French...

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The Ability to Create Value

25.10.2012 - Road Map - Outwardly, at least Thierry Le Hénaff is unruffled by the prospect that French chemical producer Arkema --- along with similar sized-players in Germany and The...

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Arkema Invests over €70 Million in Fluoropolymers in France

28.06.2012 - Arkema announces a major project for the development of its Kynar PVDF business in Europe. Over €70 million are to be invested into the Pierre-Bénite site in France, in particular...

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MEPI: Process Innovation Serving New Chemical Manufacturing Strategies

- Following the AZF fertilizer plant blast in 2001, a brain-storming group was formed in Toulouse, France, to draw the lines of what would in 2007 become MEPI, la Maison Européenne...

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BASF to Build CSB Plant in Bahrain

20.07.2011 - BASF has announced it will build a state-of-the-art plant for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in Bahrain. CSBs are key additives for the production of polymers for the...

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DuPont’s Shanna Moore on the Role of Sustainable Packaging

09.05.2011 - Is sustainability everything when it comes to packaging? Not necessarily, says Shanna Moore, global director of Sustainability at DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers. The member...