Category Menu Product News Italian manufacturer of VCM/PVC -Vinyls Italia, files for liquidation May 4, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Italian manufacturer of VCM/PVC Vinyls Italia, has filed for liquidation as per a decision formalized by the company Board of Directors. This decision comes barely a month after the firm was acquired by Fiorenzo Sartor company Safi after nine months of negotiations. The Italian VCM-PVC business of the Ineos Group was transferred to the Italian […] Read more »
End Markets Processes Davis-Standard launches latest pelletizing technology May 4, 2009 by plasticsinfomart The Converting Systems Group of Davis-Standard, an extrusion machinery supplier, has recently added new pelletizing technology to its Black Clawson Converting Machinery brand offering that will be promoted during NPE, the plastics fair to be held from June 22 to 26 at Chicago this year. This includes a new air ring pelletizer, a pelletizer retrofit […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Labthink displays new products at Chinaplas May 4, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Labthink, a provider of testing instruments and testing services, will exhibit at Chinaplas, a global plastics and rubber trade fair to be staged in Guangzhou from May 18 to 21. Labthink will display the company’s PERME DM2/330 differential and equal pressure method gas permeability tester, PERME OX2/230 oxygen transmission rate test system and PERME W3/330 […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Add a metallised finish with back moulding May 4, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Metal foils are being used in a surface insert moulding process to improve on the metallisation that may be achieved by plating or by glueing/screwing on a metal cover. Swiss mouldmaker Georg Kaufmann is supplying the tooling which combines moulding with finishing of the foil surface. The process is the same as is used […] Read more »
End Markets Processes LANXESS produces Customized Iron Oxides for a New Generation of Laser Printers May 3, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG has developed a new iron oxide for the formulation of chemical toners used in the latest printer model lines. The product named Bayoxide E TP LXS 5248 is characterized by high tinting strength, soft magnetic properties, good flowability and a very uniform particle size distribution. Chemical toners result in a […] Read more »
Market News Schlumberger shares have more room to rise May 3, 2009 by plasticsinfomart NEW YORK, May 3 – Shares in oil services company Schlumberger (SLB.N) may rise as much as 25 percent in the next two years if the global economy begins to recover in 2010 or in 2011, according to a report in Barron’s. The story in the May 4 edition said that in the case of […] Read more »
Market News OPEC April oil output falls for eighth month May 3, 2009 by plasticsinfomart LONDON – OPEC oil supply fell in April for an eighth consecutive month due to disruptions to Nigerian output and as members implemented a deal to prop up prices, a Reuters survey showed on Friday. Supply from the 11 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries bound by output targets declined to 25.52 […] Read more »
Market News Oil tops $53 on upbeat manufacturing data May 3, 2009 by plasticsinfomart Crude oil settled above 53 U.S. dollars on Friday as a report showing signs of improvement in manufacturing offset lackluster economic reports. Light, sweet crude for June delivery rose 2.08 dollars to close at 53.20 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures rallied to as high as 53.65 dollars a barrel during […] Read more »