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Integrated nylon maker Domo Chemicals, which has renamed its business currently known as cfp flexible packaging S.p.A. to Domo Film Solutions S.p.A., has launched its new Nyleen family of nylon films. The films have a low carbon footprint compared to standard nylon film, according to a comparison between Ecoinvent 3.3…

Styrenics maker Ineos Styrolution is collaborating with Indaver nv, a European waste management company with large-scale treatment facilities in the port of Antwerp headquartered in Belgium, for chemical recycling of polystyrene (PS) in Europe. The collaboration between the two companies aims at taking advantage of the recyclability of PS to…

In a joint development project, German TPE supplier Kraiburg worked with vehicle components maker Gutsche Engineering to produce its roof rail cover. Gutsche Engineering says it has benefited from the cost-effective processing and above all from the outstanding weather resistance combined with cohesive ASA adhesion in Kraiburg’s Thermolast A compound…

3D printing offers unique opportunities to produce three-dimensional, often complex shaped parts in one single step. While predominantly prototypes and sample parts have been produced in small numbers so far, many industries are increasingly interested in industrial mass production. Silicon Valley based company Carbon has developed Digital Light Synthesis (DLS)…

apan’s Nippon Shokubai recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of its acrylic acid plant in Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia. Acrylic acid, one of Nippon Shokubai’s core businesses, shows steady growth of demand as a key material for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) and acrylates (AES). In recent years, the demand and…

Invista’s technology and licensing group, Invista Performance Technologies (IPT), Sichuan Shengda Chemical New Material Co., Ltd (Sichuan Shengda) and Sichuan Energy Investment Chemical New Material Co., Ltd (Sichuan Energy) announce the successful start-up of Sichuan Shengda’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant. On-specification production was achieved on May 24, 2019. This…

India has started a probe into the alleged dumping of polystyrene (PS) from six countries including the US, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, UAE and Iran following complaints by domestic companies. The complaints were filed by Vadodara-based Ineos Styrolution India as well as Supreme Petrochem Ltd from Mumbai. The companies had made…

In what is termed to be a “deal of the year”, Hillenbrand Inc., which owns compounding extruder maker Coperion and auxiliary equipment firms K-Tron and Rotex, is to acquire compatriot machinery firm Milacron Holdings Corp. in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$2 billion, including net debt of approximately…

US processor for the medical sector Tekni-Plex has purchased Brazilian closure liner manufacturer Geraldiscos, which will become part of Tekni-Plex’s Tri-Seal business. Headquartered in Santana de Parnaiba, a suburb of São Paulo and set up in 1964,, Geraldiscos is known for manufacturing innovative closure liners and induction seals for a…

Additives/chemicals maker SI Group, a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners, is selling the majority of its global industrial resin businesses and its Brazilian specialty business to ASK Chemicals, a portfolio company of private equity firm Rhône Group LLC. The transaction includes SI Group’s industrial resins products and associated manufacturing…