Polyethylene F-0220-S returned lost positions - Uzbek Commodity Exchange

(UzEx) -- Over two decades of January polyethylene F-0220-S (film group) returned lost positions. The part of its sales in total volume of sales of polyethylene granules made 29 % whereas last year the given parameter made only 5 %, according to Uzbek commodity Exchange

As a whole, 4,5 KT of polyethylene granules of all grades were sold through the exchange tenders, which was 400 T more than that for the same period last year.

According to exchange traders, this year will be the year of the raised demand for polyethylene, considering high activity in the given segment of the exchange market.

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(PRW) -- Netherlands-based DSM and Russia's KuibyshevAzot are forming two joint ventures related to engineering plastics. One of the deals will make DSM the first Western nylon 6 supplier with its own manufacturing presence in Russia or the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Togliatti-based KuibyshevAzot also will receive a license to DSM's proprietary cyclohexanone technology, which will be applied at KuibyshevAzot's caprolactam plant. As a result, the company will boost its capacity to make caprolactam, a feedstock for nylon 6 resin.

DSM Engineering Plastics also plans to buy 80% of the engineering plastics compounding plant located on KuibyshevAzot's manufacturing site in Togliatti.

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(Styron) -- The 50:50 joint venture between Styron and Sumitomo Chemical is being renamed Sumika Styron Polycarbonate Limited (SSPC). Company name change activities are underway and are expected to be fully effective as of April 1, 2011.

Styron announced in October that it assumed ownership of the 50 percent share that was formerly owned by The Dow Chemical Company, following Dow's divestiture of Styron to Bain Capital Partners in June 2010.

The joint venture will continue to be headquartered in Tokyo, and will continue to serve its customers and market polycarbonate products in Asia Pacific.

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(BASF) -- As producer of Epotal Eco, BASF shall forthwith be able to offer the first compostable water-based adhesive certified by the German Technical Inspection Agency TUV.

⌠Biologically degradable adhesives will play a decisive role in the future when it comes to developing compostable packaging materials, says Cornelis Beyers from Marketing Industrial Adhesives.

Epotal Eco is particularly suitable for the production of multi-layer films for flexible packaging materials based on biodegradable plastics. Possible applications are bags for potato chips or chocolate bar wrappings.

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(BASF) -- BASF is now introducing onto the market a new XPS (extruded polystyrene rigid foam, brand name Styrodur C) that has an around 20 % better lambda value than competitive products. BASF researchers made this major leap in insulation performance by integrating into the XPS finely-dispersed graphite particles which absorb the heat radiation and reflect it like a mirror.

BASF invented the technology in 1995 for its gray expandable polystyrene Neopor (EPS). That is the reason why the new XPS insulation panels are called Styrodur Neo and are available in gray.

Because of the higher insulation performance, which is achieved by the in-built infrared absorbers, the thickness of the panels can be reduced accordingly. Thus, Styrodur Neo is particularly suitable for the insulation of building interiors on walls, floors and ceilings but also for the insulation of thermal bridges and cavity walls.

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