PS granulates of the “Styron” brand (Photo: Trinseo) The surcharges are tough: with immediate effect, Trinseo (Berwyn, Pennsylvania / USA) wants the prices for PS-GP (“Styron” brand) and PS-HI (“Styron”, “Styron A-Tech”, “Styron C -Tech “and” Styron X-Tech “) by 520 EUR / t. The company announced surcharges of 430 EUR / t for ABS … Read more
Shredder supply of the fiber optic waste intended for recycling (Photo: Johns Manville) The US glass fiber manufacturer and insulation material producer Johns Manville (JM, Denver, Colorado / USA) has installed a recycling plant for glass fibers in the existing plant in Trnava, Slovakia. The unit – part of an investment program of around EUR … Read more
The company sells SAN under the brand name “Tyril” (Photo: Trinseo) Trinseo (Berwyn, Pennsylvania / USA) declared force majeure on February 3, 2021 for SAN production at the Terneuzen site in the Netherlands. The inadequate supply of the intermediate product ACN is affecting production, said a company representative. The plant could therefore not produce in … Read more
Plastics fair in the center of Bogota (Photo: Colombiaplast / Acoplásticos) On December 30, 2020, Messe Düsseldorf and the Colombian trade fair company Corferias signed a contract with the plastics association Acoplásticos (Bogota / Colombia; www.acoplasticos.org) on a future collaboration on the plastics exhibition “Colombiaplast”. Through its subsidiary, Messe Düsseldorf North America (Chicago, USA), Messe … Read more
PS granules of the “Styron” brand (Photo: Trinseo) Effective February 1, 2021, Trinseo (Berwyn, Pennsylvania / USA) is demanding further surcharges for styrenics and polycarbonate. For PS-GP (“Styron” brand) and PS-HI (“Styron”, “Styron A-Tech”, “Styron C-Tech” and “Styron X-Tech”) price increases of 40 EUR / t are planned, such as the company reports. It is … Read more
Packaging solutions for chemical products (Photo: Pentapackaging) The US packaging manufacturer Berlin Packaging (Chicago, Illinois / USA) is pushing its European expansion with the takeover of the two plastic packaging manufacturers Repli (Barcelona / Spain) and Pentapackaging (Bergamo / Italy). The takeover of the two companies represents the ninth acquisition of the US manufacturer of … Read more
More than 60,000 visitors came to Milan for Plast 2018 (Photo: KI) After much speculation about the possible options for this year’s “NPE”, there is now at least one certainty: The leading US plastics trade fair, which takes place every three years, will not take place as planned from May 17 to 21, 2021 as … Read more
Around 56,000 visitors came to the fairgrounds in Orlando for NPE 2018, 27 percent of them from abroad (Photo: NPE) The registration of exhibitors for the leading US trade fair “NPE”, which takes place every three years, has begun May 2021 again in Florida at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. In difficult times, … Read more