Saudi Arabian petrochemical and plastics group Sabic (Riyadh; www.sabic.com) will expand the number of its R&D bases this year to 18 with the launch of four new innovation centres, including two in ...

Swissplast (Sargans / Switzerland; www.swissplast.com), a company that thermoforms technical components, is acquiring CAP-Vakuform (Diedorf / Germany; www.cap-vakuform.eu) for an undisclosed sum. The ...

Windhager (Tahlgau / Austria; www.windhager.eu) has acquired a majority stake in PVC film manufacturer Van Merksteijn Plastics (Boekelo / The Netherlands; www.vanmerksteijnplastics.nl) for an ...

Netherlands-based chemical company Ioniqa Technologies (Eindhoven; www.ioniqa.com) and venture capital firm Chemelot Ventures (Maastricht / The Netherlands; www.chemelotventures.com) have finalised ...

The new range encompasses various different alternatives to PEEK, including polyphthalazinone ether ketone (PPEK), polyphthalazinone ether sulfone (SPPEK) and polyphthalazinone ether sulfone ketone ...

Specialty US packaging and merchandising provider, Chesapeake (Richmond, Virginia, USA) has acquired the Northern Ireland business of Boxmore International (Ennis House, Enterprise Way, Hightown ...

Wavin BV (Stationsplein 3, NL-8000 AD Zwolle) are one of the largest plastics processing groups in Europe. In 1995 they used 430,000 t of polymer, although this volume represented an 8% fall on 1994 ...

Consolidation of the packaging market is still going on. The most recent example is the planned joint venture between CarnaudMetalbox SA (CMB, 153 rue de Courcelles, F-75017 Paris), the largest ...

Phillips Petroleum Company was the first commercial producer of poly(phenylene sulfide), PPS, and manufactures today the full line of cured, linear, and branched ...

Packaging and film manufacturers anticipate rise in sales / Stabilisation in export business expected – IK business survey ...

— By Andru Shively — The Land of the Rising Sun might really be called the land of rising salt. The Japanese reportedly take ...

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