- Better margins through product differentiation and high-value products
When General Electric's GE Plastics division acquired LNP Engineering Plastics in early 2002, it was not clear how GE would integrate the huge plastics compounder into its own operations. But at a recent press conference at LNP's Exton, Pa. headquarters, GE executives said that their company intends to stress specialty ......
- CHINA: What's hot, what's not
If you are looking for inexpensive sources of chemicals, China may or may not be the place to look. It all depends on the chemicals you need. Unlike the country's burgeoning manufacturing industry, which is driven by exports, the chemicals industry in China, for the most part, was created with ......
- Polyplastics, Mitsubishi Gas and Ticona form joint venture
Japanese companies Polyplastics Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. Inc., and Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, Frankfurt, Germany, announced the approval by the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the Jiangsu Provincial Government of China for the three companies' joint venture, PTM Engineering Plastics (Nantong) ......
- Dow quits non-automotive sales of ABS &SAN.
Dow Engineering Plastics, Midland, Mich., halted sales of ABS and SAN in the Americas to non-automotive markets on Feb. 1. All ABS will be made at the Midland mass-process plant. Dow will convert two other ABS plants in Connecticut and Ohio, to polystyrene and move them into the planned PS ......
- Toray to acquire engineering plastics compound facility
Toray Industries Inc. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, Toray Resin Co.(TREC) will acquire a compounds-production facility of Nippisun Indiana Corp. (NIC), a U.S. subsidiary of Nippon Pigment Co. Ltd., to reinforce its engineering plastics business in North America.
- Another acetal option for North America. (Keeping up
with Materials).
KEP Americas Engineering Plastics. Summit, N.J,. is a new firm offering acetal copolymers and compounds imported from South Korea Kepital materials are made by Korean Engineering Plastics Co., a joint venture of Germany's Ticona LLC and several Japanese chemical companies. KEP Americas will distribute Kepital products and provide technical support....
- Stabilizers, antioxidants: product lines
reviewed.
Stabilizers ANTIOXIDANTS PRODUCT LINES REVIEWED ACCURATE COLOR INC. Offers a full line of primary and secondary antioxidant concentrates for use in most thermoplastics. Products can be compounded with other additives as required. ACETO CORP. Offers polyphenols for plastics and rubber. AKRON CHEMICAL CO. Phenolic antioxidants are available. AKZO ENGINEERING PLASTICS ......