- 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 ......
- 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.
- Deloitte & Touche report on Canada's chemical
sector.
A recent report from Deloite Touche Tohmatsu International, states that the Canadian chemical industry is experiencing a revival, encouraged by the relatively stable Canadian dollar, a growing economy and increasing export opportunities. Indeed, the chemical industry in the wider North American region is coming out of a six year slowdown....
- 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 ......
- Here's more on the newest SMA
resins.
A new line of styrene maleic-anhydride (SMA) engineering thermoplastics known as Stapron S, which will target automotive injection molding applications, will be introduced later this month at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) show in Detroit. This introduction will make DSM Engineering Plastics North America Inc., Reading, Pa., the third ......
- 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) ......
- Industry burgeons, skyline soars
HEADNOTE Shanghai is set to rise even higher as a global center. CHINA'S LARGEST CITY, FAST-DEVELoping Shanghai has aspirations to be the industrial, commercial, and financial powerhouse of Asia, ultimately overtaking Hong Kong and even Tokyo. In the past decade it has made giant strides to that end. Ten years ......