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(plasticker) -- Styron Europe GmbH and its affiliate companies in Europe announced price increases for all polystyrene and copolymer grades.
Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, the May contract and spot prices for the products listed below, will increase as follows: STYRON general purpose polystyrene grades (GPPS), STYRON and STYRON A-TECH high impact polystyrene grades (HIPS) by 50 Euro per metric ton; MAGNUM ABS resins and TYRIL SAN resins by 35 Euro per metric ton.
The price increase responds to the rising costs associated with the manufacturing of polystyrene and copolymers grades in Europe.
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Reyes Groupe acquires Swisstex France
(textileworld) -- France-based industrial company Reyes Groupe has acquired all the assets of SwissTex France , a manufacturer of twisting, assembling, cabling, covering and winding machinery for technical and textile yarn markets, and formerly part of the SwissTex group also including SwissTex Winterthur AG, Switzerland. Going forward, Reyes will operate the company under the name Verdol. SwissTex France has been operating under a Chapter 11-type regulation of the French courts.
Reyes has worked with SwissTex for more than 25 years and is familiar with its products and expertise -- including brands such as Verdol, ICBT, Rieter ICBT and RITM. The new owner believes this knowledge will help it enhance Verdol's technological, commercial and financial strength.
"Verdol and its teams, which we renewed our confidence for the quality of work in recent years, will be able, given the new resources that we put now at their disposal, to bring you again a better service and remove the failures of the past," said Reyes Groupe CEO Christophe Reyes and Verdol General Manager Jean-Claude Gnonlonfoun, in announcing the acquisition.
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SABIC launches Euro 135 mln investment at Geleen production site
(plastemart) -- Over the next eighteen months, SABIC will invest Euro 135 mln in safety, energy conservation and the environment at their production site in Geleen.
The goal of the investment is to ensure a safer, more competitive and more energy efficient cracker that is better for the environment. On April 11, an upgrade project was officially launched that will transform the Naphtha Olefins 4 cracker into one of the best crackers in Europe in terms of safety, durability and cost efficiency.
The Geleen investment fits in perfectly with SABIC's growth strategy of becoming the market leader in the chemical industry. As well as the upgrade project, the 135 million euro investment will be used to launch more than twenty additional improvement projects and a substantial maintenance shutdown scheduled for September 2013. Built in the 1970s, the cracker will be modernized according to the latest technologies so that it can continue to compete with the younger' plants.
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The goal of the investment is to ensure a safer, more competitive and more energy efficient cracker that is better for the environment. On April 11, an upgrade project was officially launched that will transform the Naphtha Olefins 4 cracker into one of the best crackers in Europe in terms of safety, durability and cost efficiency.
The Geleen investment fits in perfectly with SABIC's growth strategy of becoming the market leader in the chemical industry. As well as the upgrade project, the 135 million euro investment will be used to launch more than twenty additional improvement projects and a substantial maintenance shutdown scheduled for September 2013. Built in the 1970s, the cracker will be modernized according to the latest technologies so that it can continue to compete with the younger' plants.
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EuroChem makes significant deal to expand its business
(chemmonitor) -- The Russian company EuroChem is about to make a significant deal for the world fertilizer market. The manufacturer will become a new proprietor of the Germany-headquartered company K+S Nitrogen.
The Russia's firm is to pay EUR 140 (USD 182) million for the German company.
The transaction activities are to be finalized by July of the current year under terms of the agreement signed by the Russian manufacturer and Germany-based K+S Aktiengesellschaft, an actual proprietor of the German fertilizer firm.
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Braskem plans investment of USD100 mln in green PP plant
(plastemart) -- Braskem has confirmed plans for a USD100 mln expansion in Brazil in a move that will ramp up the company's efforts to curb its environmental footprint. Braskem, the world's first producer of green plastic produced from 100% sugar cane derivatives, plans to fund a new plant to produce 30,000 tpa of polypropylene, dubbed Green PP, from ethanol.
The new plant will be built adjacent to Braskem's existing 200 tpa green PE facility, at it's 60 km sq site in Rio Grande de Sul, and is expected to be completed in 2013.
Currently, green PE is available at a premium of about 20% compared to conventional PE, but reduces the carbon impact by 2.3 kilo tons of CO2 per ton, vs gas or naphtha based PE.
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