MRC to present a mobile service in the big Smartphone at Interplastica 2012

MOSCOW (MRC) -- Specially for the trade fair Interplastica 2012 which will be held on 24-27 January in the Expocenter, MRC created a big smartphone with MRC Mobile - service for the polymers market.

"We would like to provide the audience with the original possibility to get acquainted with MRC Mobile service that looks like an iPhone and has impressive dimensions: height - 2 meters, width -1.2 meters. - said Olga Sinelnikova, the head of Development department, MRC. "A big Smartphone" has a touch screen 32", it can be used for online access to any mobile contents, in particular, MRC Mobile service for the polymers market."

We are inviting all the visitors of Interplastica to get acquainted with the innovation at our booth FB 03, Forum and at the presentation of MRC Mobile on 25 January 2012, 11.00 - 13.00 in the Press-hall of the Congress-center of the trade.

Reference: MRC prepares professional reports on polymers and petrochemical markets of CIS countries. In the European market the company is working under the brand of MRC. MRC has a joint business with ICIS - world leading analytical company in the chemical market. MRC partners are the world chemical companies whose total revenue is twice as much as GDP of Russia.

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MOSCOW (MRC) -- MRC Mobile contains price analytics on polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, PVC and PET; statistics on imports/exports, production of polymers; news; urgent information on sharp fluctuations in the market (posts).

In the nearest future MRC Mobile will provide an access to data on imports/exports and production of polymers by grades and producers; price forecasts in CIS, Europe and Asia; data on growth of capacities of polymers processing as well as information about the most significant converters' investments.

MRC Mobile is available in the AppStore for iPhone and in the Android Market for smartphones on the Android basis. Free downloading of MRC Mobile to the mobile phone is available in these hyperlinks: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mrc-mobile/id483218418
https://market.android.com/details?id=es.mrc

Development of the mobile service corresponds to our strategy of data transfer, - said Sergey Yaremenko, MRC CEO. - MRC Mobile service will allow out subscribers to stay in touch with the polymers market.

Presentation of MRC Mobile will be held on 25 January 2012, 11.00 - 13.00 in the Press-hall of the

Congress-center at the trade fair Interplastica 2012, as well as at MRC booth - Forum, FB 03 at the trade fair Interplastica 2012 which will be held on 24-27 January.

Reference: MRC prepares professional reports on polymers and petrochemical markets of CIS countries. In the European market the company is working under the brand of MRC. MRC has a joint business with ICIS - world leading analytical company in the chemical market. MRC partners are world chemical companies whose total revenue is twice as much as GDP of Russia.

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(PlasticsToday) -- In a move to help eliminate all uses of PVC in its packaging, Procter & Gamble's Oral-B manual toothbrush is now made with Octal Petrochemicals' proprietary DPET (direct PET) sheet, a P&G spokesperson told PlasticsToday.

Prior to this, P&G had used PVC for its toothbrush packaging. The company began to avoid the use of PVC in its packaging in the early '90s, and PVC currently represents less than 1.5% of P&G's total use of its plastic packaging materials, according to the company.

P&G made the switch to PET because it is easier to recycle. In addition, PVC has also been the source of recurring controversy regarding its disposal to household solid waste incinerators, and its compatibility with plastics recycling, the company stated.

Octal COO Joe Barenberg said companies, such as P&G, are finding DPET an attractive solution due to its process for production of PET sheet, which provides a substantially lower carbon footprint than traditional PET.
Compared to traditional plants, Octal's DPET sheet uses 67% less electricity; a fact the company said has been verified by independent, third party sources.

Octal's DPET sheet can run on thermoforming equipment already being used for PVC, HIPS, and OPS with only minor modifications of hardware and processing parameters, according to Octal.

Part of P&G's long-term environmental sustainability vision includes using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, and having zero consumer and manufacturing waste go to landfills.

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(ICIS) -- Polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) plants in Saudi Arabia's Al-Jubail Industrial Park were forced to shut on the evening of 19 January because of a power outage, raising concerns about polymer prices in China, southeast Asia and India, industry sources said on Friday.

Most of the PE, PP plants of SABIC and other major Saudi producers had to be shut down in the industrial complex following the power trip on Thursday evening. ⌠The power outage did not extend to the entire complex, so some crackers, PE, PP units are unaffected, a source close to SABIC said. ⌠Since not all the crackers were down, we can feed the feedstock to the PE and PP plants, reducing the impact of production loss, he said.

The largest of SABIC's PE and PP production facilities are housed in Al-Jubail, while other plants are based in Yanbu, he added. ⌠We have some linear low density polyethylene [LLDPE] inventories, so February allocations will not be severely affected, he added. The source was uncertain about the restart date of the affected plants.

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(PlastEurope) -- Suspecting price fixing, Hungary's competition authority Gazdasagi Versenyhivatal has searched the offices of several plastic pipe manufacturers.
On 16 December 2011, the authorities showed up unannounced at the Hungarian subsidiaries of Wavin (Zwolle/The Netherlands) and Pipelife (Wiener Neudorf/Austria) as well as the premises of local producer BTH Fitting (Vadna/Hungary). The latter had recently been acquired by Tessenderlo (Brussels/Belgium) as part of the Belgium company's takeover of BT Bautechnik.

The authorities are investigating whether the pipe producers engaged in price fixing in 2006, when and by how much they lifted prices and whether they divvied up regional markets among themselves in an effort not to compete with each other. GVH said the inquiry should be completed within the next six months, but cautioned that if the matter turns out to be more complex, the investigation could be extended by another six months.

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