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(plastemart) -- North America’s largest producer of vinyl construction products Georgia Gulf Corp. (GGC), is mulling acquisition of stake in a jointly-owned ethylene plant to meet its feedstock requirements. Several discussions are underway to meet its goal of securing 50% of its ethylene requirements at cost, as per Bloomberg.
The Georgia Gulf Corporation has historically been a major manufacturer and marketer of chlorovinyls (caustic soda, chlorine, VCM, EDC, PVC resins, PVC rigid and flexible compounds) and aromatics (acetone, cumene, phenol). With the acquisition of Royal Group Technologies the company is now also a major producer of building materials ranging from piping and siding to window profiles, decking, and fencing.
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Dow commissions new Chinese photovoltaics films application lab
(chemicals-technology) -- The Dow Chemical Company has opened a new Photovoltaics Films Applications Laboratory in Shanghai, China, to help customers in the Asia-Pacific region improve renewable power generation from the sun, by using ENLIGHT polyolefin films technologies and solutions.
"Earlier in 2012, Dow also opened a manufacturing facility in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to produce ENLIGHT products."
Based within the Shanghai Dow Center, the new laboratory includes facilities such as lamination of films for testing in PV modules, testing for accelerated weather, electrical resistance, moisture, glass adhesion and haze / gloss measurements for films.
The company has commercialised polyolefin-based encapsulant films and released the back encapsulant composite films, to enable photovoltaic panel manufacturers to produce long-lasting products for the global market.
Dow photovoltaics business Asia-Pacific business development manager Hawk Gao said: "Asia-Pacific is an important and growing market for our ENLIGHT polyolefin encapsulant films and back encapsulant composite materials."
Dow global business R&D director Tom Burns said: "We want to support this growth with a strong, local applications laboratory that can meet current and future needs of customers who are designing and making photovoltaic panels."
Earlier in 2012, Dow also opened a manufacturing facility in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to produce ENLIGHT products.
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"Earlier in 2012, Dow also opened a manufacturing facility in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to produce ENLIGHT products."
Based within the Shanghai Dow Center, the new laboratory includes facilities such as lamination of films for testing in PV modules, testing for accelerated weather, electrical resistance, moisture, glass adhesion and haze / gloss measurements for films.
The company has commercialised polyolefin-based encapsulant films and released the back encapsulant composite films, to enable photovoltaic panel manufacturers to produce long-lasting products for the global market.
Dow photovoltaics business Asia-Pacific business development manager Hawk Gao said: "Asia-Pacific is an important and growing market for our ENLIGHT polyolefin encapsulant films and back encapsulant composite materials."
Dow global business R&D director Tom Burns said: "We want to support this growth with a strong, local applications laboratory that can meet current and future needs of customers who are designing and making photovoltaic panels."
Earlier in 2012, Dow also opened a manufacturing facility in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to produce ENLIGHT products.
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BASF to construct emissions catalysts plant in Poland
MOSCOW (MRC) -- BASF intends to construct a new EUR150m emissions catalysts production unit in Sroda Slaska, a Special Economic Zone near Wroclaw, Poland. The construction of the facility is scheduled to start by the end of 2012, while the production is to be launched in Q1 2014, according to BASF's press release.
10 light duty and heavy duty production lines are planned to become operational at full capacity by 2016.The further expansion will follow.
Among the advanced technologies that will be produced in Poland are selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems and cutting-edge SCR on filter solutions, according to BASF officials. In addition, the plant will house a regional sample laboratory and a production line for BASF’s Premair-branded ozone destruction catalysts for automotive applications.
BASF has also unveiled it plans to modernize and expand its emissions catalyst production operation in Nienburg, Germany. Thus, according to Xavier Susterac, vice president for BASF's European mobile emissions catalysts business, the new plant in Poland will provide geographic diversity for the company's manufacturing operations and a strong complement to BASF's existing production hub in Nienburg.
We remind that on 23 October, BASF officially opened its first Russian applications technology center for polyurethane systems in Vsevolozhsk, near St. Petersburg. Like the System House in Nishnekamsk, which went into operation in 2000, this site will also be a part of the BASF joint venture Elastokam with the Russian company Nishnekamskneftechim (NKNC), as MRC reported earlier.
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Clariant presents its innovative Hostavin NOW technology for agriculture films
(plastic infomart) -- In a move support effective crop protection, Clariant has launched innovative stabilization solutions to improve the durability of greenhouse films.
The service life of greenhouse films is severely impacted by combined aggressive effects from intensive solar radiation exposure and increasing use of agrochemicals, such as sulfur and halogenated chemicals. Light stabilizers based on amino-ether HALS outperform standard HALS in terms of agrochemical resistance which enables superior UV protection and extends the lifetime of the greenhouse film.
Clariant offers film producers customized amino-ether light stabilization solutions based on Hostavin NOW technology to achieve outstanding UV protection. The tailor-made solutions are available in a easy to handle granular form. Clariant solutions offer improved and safer processability compared to current available light stabilizers.
As MRC reported earlier, the company has strengthened its position in the Asian market by entering into strategic agreements with DKSH and Wacker. The company also showed good progress in portfolio management and the integration of Sud-Chemie.
Clariant AG is a Swiss chemical company and a world leader in the production of specialty chemicals for the textile, printing, mining and metallurgical industries. It is engaged in processing crude oil products in pigments, plastics and paints.
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Sonoco launches commercial production at its new plant in the USA
(Sonoco) -- Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has commenced commercial production of rigid plastic containers for personal care products at its new USD15 million plant, located in the Beauty and Home Care campus in New Albany, Ohio.
According to Rodger Fuller, vice president of Rigid Plastics, Sonoco's new 142,230-square-foot plant is currently operating 11 injection stretch blow-molding production lines, producing PET bottles for personal care products. In addition, the plant is operating four injection molding machines that are producing plastic components for wall air fresheners.
Also, as MRC informed earlier, Sonoco had completed expansion at its Waynesville, N.C., thermoforming location, where it would start up a new multilayer, trim-in-place line.
Sonoco Plastics is a leading manufacturer of mono-layer and multi-layer blow-molded bottles and jars, thermoformed cups and trays and engineered molded and extruded containers, spools and trays. The Company has 25 plastics operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany. In addition to the Beauty Park facility, Sonoco Plastics operates a state-of-the-art food-grade, blow-molding and injection molding plant in Columbus, Ohio. The Company is currently reviewing plans for additional expansion of this facility as well, Fuller added.
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