Green Research Center

05/09/2014

Lanxess AG reported a 2.5 percent decrease in sales for the first quarter of 2014 and net income that held steady compared to 2013.The Cologne, Germany-based firm's sales came in at about $2.78 billion, with its net income about $34.8 million.CEO Matthias Zachert said Lanxess is developing

04/21/2014

U.K. masterbatch maker Colloids Ltd. said April 17 it plans to build a $6 million factory in Suzhou, China, its first outside the United Kingdom.The Knowsley-based company said the 3,700 square meter facility would open in the third quarter, with an initial capacity of 3,500 metric tons, targeted

04/21/2014

HOUSTON — Materials firm Ascend Performance Materials Inc. is in full operation at its new nylon 6/6 compounding line in Florida and will break ground by the end of the year on a propylene monomer production unit in Texas.The strategy for Houston-based Ascend is to have large, high-output

04/21/2014

Julie McAlindon first joined PolyOne Corp. in 2010 and was appointed senior vice president, president of designed structures and solutions following the acquisition of Spartech Corp.Prior to joining PolyOne, McAlindon spent 20 years with Dow Chemical Co. and held various commercial, operational

04/21/2014

Quality Circular Polymers is building a new plastics recycling operation in Geleen, the Netherlands’ Chemelot industrial chemical site, with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons of polypropylene and polyethylene per year, at full production.The total investment will be 75 million euros ($103

04/03/2014

04/02/2014

One of the world’s biggest auto suppliers is expanding its exposure in blow molding through the acquisition of two German blow molding equipment companies.Continental AG’s ContiTech unit announced April 1 that it is buying Inotec Innovative Technologie GmbH and Präzisionstechnik

04/02/2014

CHICAGO — In early 2008, CamelBak Products LLC launched production of a set of water bottles using Eastman Chemical Co.’s Tritan copolyester.The bottles were the first commercial product using the resin, which was just introduced a few months earlier, marketed as a replacement for

02/24/2014

http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20140221/NEWS/140229989/uk-researchers-to-study-polymers-from-biomass

Scientists at the University of York will lead a new government-backed research project to investigate the potential conversion of waste biomass and waste carbon dioxide into raw materials.The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University's Green Chemistry

02/24/2014

Riyadh - February 22, 2014: Saudi Plastics & Petrochem 2014 - the 11th International Plastics and Petrochem Exhibition and Saudi Plast & Pack 2014 - the 11th International Printing and Packaging Technologies, successfully concluded recently

02/24/2014

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