(PlastEurope) -- Asahi Kasei Plastics North America (Fowlerville, Michigan / USA) has named Nitriflex da Amazonia (Sao Paulo / Brazil) as distributor for its plastics resins in Brazil. The portfolio of the US Japanese transplant includes PA, PP, acetals, modified polyphenylene ether (mPPE). In Manaus / Brazil, Nitriflex produces ABS, polycarbonate (PC), acrylics and custom blends.
Adding the Asahi Kasei product lines will round off the Nitriflex portfolio, enabling the company to ⌠better service our customers with optimum polymeric solutions in a number of industries," said Danny Siekierski, vice president operations at parent company Brampac (Sao Paulo). The Brazilian company also aims to advance application development for its Asian partner.
Perspectives of development of polymer markets, pricing issues and other important aspects will be discussed at The Polymers Summit-2011, which will be held in Moscow on November 30, 2011 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. The Summit will be organized by MRC with the support of ICIS. The main idea of the Summit is to find a "the golden mean" between producers and converters. When producers receive exactly such margin of production, which helps them to invest in production expansion in order to substitute polymers imports, and the converters receive such price of feedstock that helps them to compete imported finished products. The Summit site gives an access to the live video of the Summit, speakers" presentations, as well as opportunities to ask questions or make appointments to any Summit partcipant.
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