TAIPEI (Reuters) -- State-run CPC Corp Taiwan said on Thursday it may move one of its largest naphtha crackers to Indonesia and operate it together there with a private firm amid weak petrochemical margins.
CPC, which runs three naphtha crackers with a total nameplate capacity of 1.06 million tonnes per year (tpy), expects to decide by the end of the year after finishing a study whether to relocate one.
(prw) -- Plastics packaging producer RPC Containers has developed a new packaging design for delivery of pharmaceutical products in the mail.
Developed at the company's design centre at Market Rasen in the UK in conjunction with Pont Europe, the new blow moulded pack is designed to enable delivery of tablets and pills in the standard letter post.
The key requirement for the new pack was that it had to be less than 25 mm deep while providing wide neck opening for easy filling, which stretched blow moulding capabilities.
(PRNewswire) -- DuPont (NYSE: DD) and Royal DSM N.V. announce an agreement to form a joint venture to develop, manufacture and commercialize advanced surgical biomedical materials, pending European Union regulatory approval. The joint venture will be named Actamax Surgical Materials LLC. Under the joint venture agreement, DuPont and DSM will each share a 50 percent interest.
The joint venture will address the market for surgical sealants, adhesion barriers and tissue adhesives - a large and underserved market of more than 100 million annual surgical procedures worldwide. The outcome of many surgical procedures could be positively impacted using next-generation materials under development by the joint venture.
Actamax Surgical Materials LLC will build a comprehensive biomedical product portfolio based on several patent-protected biodegradable hydrogel technologies. The early technology development was completed using DuPont materials science and biotechnology capabilities. Commercialization will rely on the medical polymer processing and manufacturing capabilities of DSM.
(Regnum) -- Finland's Ab Rani Plast Oy started on Wednesday the construction of a plastic film extrusion plant in the Lemcon I-Park Kaluga industrial park being created by Finland's Lemminkainen in central Russia.
It will be the first company in the first private industrial park in the Kaluga region, where about 20 industrial productions and logistics centres are supposed to be set on 135 hectares.
The plastic film extrusion plant is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2011. Investment in the project amounted to 20 million euros.
Russian polymers market prospects will be discussed at Russian Polymers Summit on October 14, 2010 organized by ICIS and MRC. For more information please refer to http://www.icisconference.com/russianpolymers/ Summit official web page.
(PlastEurope) -- On 22 September 2010 BASF declared force majeure on High Impact Polystyrene "due to unforeseeable technical defects" during the restart of the production unit in Antwerp, Belgium. Since prior to this restart the production was shut down for a five weeks maintenance, the inventories are declining rapidly. BASF will not be able to fulfill all existing orders for delivery. Types concerned are "PS 486 M", "PS 485 I", "PS 454 C", "PS 495 F" as well as "PS ESCRimo". BASF expects a restart of the HIPS production within the next 10 days.
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