British Plastics & Rubber

Issue Date: 04/01/2004

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1. Futures trading to reduce the risk of plastics price fluctuation.(Materials... FUTURE contracts in plastics are expected to be traded alongside metals on the London Metal Exchange by the end of the year. The LME has ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 2. Lucite ready to slash MMA production costs.(Materials Marketplace) ACRYLICS market leader Lucite International has reached commercialisation of a process which could cut the cost of making methyl methacrylate by 40 per cent. The ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 3. Nylons--BASF.(Recent price increases) Nylons--BASF has increased prices for caprolactam and Ultramid B and BS nylon 6 by 120 [euro]/tonne, and Capron nylon compounds by 200 [euro]/tonne. Price increases ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 4. Flame retardants-Great Lakes Chemical.(Recent price increases) Flame retardants--Great Lakes Chemical has increased the prices of its DE-71, DE-60F Special, DE-61, and DE-62 pentabromodiphenyl oxide flame retardants and all grades of BC-52 ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 5. RPC buys Rexam thinwall container plants.(Company Report) Rexam has sold four European thin wall packaging plants to RPC Group for 16x2 million [pounds sterling]. Its aim is to concentrate its plastic containers ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 6. Eastman goes ahead with Hartlepool closure.(Company Report) Eastman Chemical has decided to close its Hartlepool copolyester plant after starting discussions with staff and unions in February. Production will be moved to other ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 7. Solvay puts all its plastics in the same pot.(Company Report) Solvay is to combine its materials manufacturing and plastics processing operations into a single unit. The move is one of two major structural changes, the ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 8. BASF sells off specialty PS compounds.(Company Report) BASF has sold its polystyrene specialty compounds business to Spartech. The business, which includes compounds of flame retardant and antistatic polystyrene specialty products, has been ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 9. Metal/plastic composite process forms metal inserts during injection... A WORLD first is being claimed by steel maker Corus for a metal/plastic composites process in which the plastic is injection moulded on to a ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 10. Bayer hybrid process finds growing interest in the automotive business. Bayer's sheet metal overmoulding process was in the spotlight at the VDI Plastics in Automotive Engineering conference in Germany recently, where the company was discussing ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
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