Co-Extruded plastic tubing from NewAge Industries

(Food Online) -- Polyethylene-lined EVA tubing is a co-extruded product now available from NewAge Industries. The tubing combines the functionality of polyethylene with the flexibility of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and is used in applications such as food and beverage processing, pharmaceutical uses, chemical transfer, appliances, computer equipment, laboratories, fluid feeds and drains, and more.

Polyethylene tubing is typically a semi-rigid product. The addition of EVA gives it enhanced flexibility and allows its use with economical barb-style fittings. The tubing's patented manufacturing method ensures a permanent bond between the inner and outer layers. First the core of low density polyethylene is extruded, then farther down the production line, the EVA covering is extruded around the core using a patented process. The result is a tubing that offers different performance characteristics for the inside and outside of the tube ≈ cleanliness inside, flexibility outside.

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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Polystyrene consumption in Russia over 2010 made 456 KT which was 24% more than in 2009, according to MRC Annual reports.

After two-year recession in the sector of PS conversion in Russia, in 2010 the recovery in this sector was marked. Total volume of PS and styrene plastics consumption in Russia exceeded the peak level of 2007 (454 KT). One third of the consumed materials fell at the domestic producer Nizhnekamskneftehim.

A part of the imports (210 KT) in the total volume of consumption in 2010 made 46%. Still a considerable part of the total volume of the imports falls at EPS and ABS (47% and 22% correspondingly).

About 40% of all consumed PS fall at EPS and XPS production.

The growth of PS consumption in Russia is stipulated by development of car industry and electrical goods production as well as growth in the sector of heat insulation materials.

More detailed analysis of PS consumption and production capacities by types, technologies and sectors for each producer is presented in the Annual report PS and styrene plastics in Russia - 2010.

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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Karpatneftehim (Group of companies Lukoil, Kalush, Ukraine) plans to launch on March, 1 the production of suspension PVC and at the end of QI of 2011 produce 12 KT of the resin.

The licenser of the production site in Kalush is the German Vinnolit. The expected capacities of PVC-S production are 300 KTa or about 25 TM per month. But taking into account the launch of new production, PVC-S output in March will make about 12 KT.

The most attractive sales market for Lukoil, as per MRC estimates, is the Russian market. At the expense of 10% import duties and logistics, the price for the resin in the Russian market is one of the highest in the world. The absence of the import duties for PVC from Kalush and relatively short distances will give Lukoil an additional advantage over other suspension suppliers to the Russian market. Further go the markets of the Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Turkey.

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(Times Leader) -- EAM Mosca, a polypropylene and polyester strapping manufacturer in the Valmont Industrial Park, says it will save approximately $46,000 each year on electricity costs thanks to new energy options it's implemented.

The 500 new lighting fixtures being installed by George J. Hayden, Inc. of Hazleton at EAM Mosca's 141,500-square-foot facility will save the company approximately $46,000 annually, said EAM Mosca Project Engineer Bob Szumilo. The upgrades are part of an energy program implemented by CAN DO, Greater Hazleton's economic development agency, and has been used at other area businesses, too.

The lighting upgrade will reduce EAM Mosca's energy usage by 50,493 kilowatt hours per month and reduce the company's annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 450 tons each year (equivalent of planting more than 2,200 trees).

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(BASF) -- Effective February 1, 2010, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices in Europe, Africa and Western Asia for polymer dispersions as well as additives by 130 Euro per metric ton and acrylic resins and redispersible powders by 200 Euro per metric ton. The price adjustments are necessary due to significantly increased raw material costs.

The products affected by the price increase are used as polymers for adhesives, fiberbonding , architectural coatings and construction chemicals.

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