Category Menu Product News Ford breaks New Ground with all-Polypropylene Body Panels produced using LyondellBasell’s Hifax Compounded Resin March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — LyondellBasell Industries’ Hifax TRC 280X compounded polypropylene (PP) resin is being used to produce the tailgate outer panel and the roof spoiler for the Kuga, Ford’s new crossover model. It is the first time Ford in Europe has used an advanced polyolefin in a body panel application. The components are manufactured by […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Ford breaks New Ground with all-Polypropylene Body Panels produced using LyondellBasell's Hifax Compounded Resin March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — LyondellBasell Industries’ Hifax TRC 280X compounded polypropylene (PP) resin is being used to produce the tailgate outer panel and the roof spoiler for the Kuga, Ford’s new crossover model. It is the first time Ford in Europe has used an advanced polyolefin in a body panel application. The components are manufactured by […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Reportlinker Adds World Plastic Additives Market Report March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Plastic Additives in Thousands of Tons and US$ Million. The major product segments analyzed are Fillers (Mineral Fillers, & Other Fillers), Plasticizers (Phthalate Plasticizers, & Other Plasticizers), Reinforcing Agents, Flame Retardants (Aluminum Oxide Hydrates, Antimony Oxide, Bromine-Based Compounds, Chlorine-Based Compounds, Phosphorus-Based Compound, & Other Flame Retardants), Colorants (Titanium […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Plastic firm starts producing bottle caps for RP clients March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart A FRENCH PLASTIC firm has expanded its Muntinlupa plant, putting up two new manufacturing lines for plastic caps for carbonated soft drink bottles to capitalize on the Philippines’ huge beverage market. Zeller Plastik Philippines, Inc., a unit of Paris-based Global Closure Systems, will begin selling plastic caps to local firms, after exclusively supplying to […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News China Tire Makers Boost Output, Lifting Rubber Demand (Update2) March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart (Bloomberg) — China’s tire makers are running at full capacity after demand picked up on government stimulus measures to revive the auto industry, boosting purchases of rubber by the world’s biggest consumer of the raw material. “Tire makers did see a recovery from the end of February and by the start of March it was […] Read more »
End Markets Processes Indorama: PET plant to come on stream soon in the USA March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart While many PET producers in Europe and North America are cutting back production in the face of structural overcapacity and taking plants out of service permanently or temporarily, the world’s second-largest PET producer Indorama Polymers (Bangkok / Thailand; www.indoramapolymers.com) is about to open a new plant in the USA. Its subsidiary AlphaPet (Decatur, Alabama / […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Cost cutting hybrid machine stars as Arburg opens Eur multi-million customer centre March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart With demand for injection moulding machines threatened by the worldwide pressure on capital expenditure Arburg has developed and introduced a new series of machines in just three months. The new Hidrive is largely electric powered, but it is on sale at 25 per cent less than the Alldrive fully electric machine and 15 per cent […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News ‘Scrapping premium’ incentive to buy a new Engel machine March 19, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Engel is offering a scrapping premium as a discount on new injection moulding machines. Customers who replace an old machine with a new Victory, E-Victory, E-Max, E-Motion or Duo Pico machine will get a Eur 3,010 credit against the purchase price on providing proof of scrapping an equivalent machine from any manufacturer, or of passing […] Read more »