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November 2014 Archives
Lead Features
Company News
RPC to buy Promens; its fourth buy in two years - Onex to acquire Swiss carton maker; EUR3.75 bn purchase
- Huhtamaki sells films unit; deal worth EUR141 mn
- Dow/Third Point reach amicable agreement
- M&G sells stake in PET unit to TPG
- Brazilian authority blocks Braskem buy of Solvay Indupa
- Lanxess to cut 1,000 jobs by 2016; EUR20 mn savings in 2014
- Sadaf jv in Jubail shelved
- Amcor sets up plant in the Philippines
Materials News
- Amcor develops first hot-fill PET bottles with metal closures
- Victrex opens new UK facility for thin films
- EU legislations to benefit use of compostable plastic bags
- Collaborations underway to produce plant-derived chemicals and fuel
- DSM opens international research centre for materials
- Plastic sheets used to create architectural illusion in London’s Covent Garden
- Bayer MaterialScience jv plant increases precursor capacity; used for PC
- Versalis and Solazyme tie up to commercialise biodegradable lubricant
- Perstorp ups investments for bioplastics development
- JEC Asia cites firms for composites innovations
- Reverdia’s bio-succinic acid gets USDA-certified biobased product label
- DSM thermoplastics yield lighter CNG and H2 fuel tanks
- CorbionPuracto build a 75kTpa PLA plant in Thailand
- LDPE global sales hit nearly US$33 bn in 2013-Ceresana
