2013 Exhibitions
Lead Feature
K2013: Lanxess’s investments in Asia and in R&D aimed at sustainable mobility
With more than 40% of its sales accounted for by the automotive sector last year, it is no surprise that German speciality chemicals firm Lanxess’s focus is on green mobility. According to Werner Breuers, member of the Lanxess Board of Management, at a preview press... Read More»
Latest Headlines
- Non-toxic, eco-friendly technology for antibacterial plastic
- Lanxess to produce new EPDM grades in China
- Lanxess to axe 1,000 jobs by 2015; mulling sale of rubber chemicals and NBR
- K2013: ExxonMobil Chemical updates event guide app
- Italian machinery to China takes a dive in first half of 2013
- Sibur and BASF enter into supply agreement for additives
- Dow puts off sale of additives unit
- K2013: BASF’s aerogel-insulating panel a breakthrough for buildings
- Dow to produce Affinity polyolefins in Spain
- K2013: K-Tron to be branded as Coperion K-Tron
- K2013: Kreyenborg screen changers and pelletisers now part of Nordson
- D-S to stocks parts in Suzhou
- NDC’s solutions for lithium ion battery web gauging applications
- Croda strengthens additives business with Chinese acquisition
- K2013: Teknor Apex to restructure TPE brands
Company News
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Huntsman buying Rockwood’s pigments and considers IPO
US public-listed chemicals firm Huntsman is acquiring Rockwood Holding’s Performance Additives and Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) businesses at US$1.1 billion in cash and unfunded pension...
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Materials News
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Borealis/Borouge’s new PP compounds and start-up of glass fibre line in Italy
Borealis and Borouge have launched Fibremod fibre-based compound polypropylene (PP) compounds for the automotive and the appliance industry and also started up a new...
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Machinery News
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Extrusion machines to set high standards at the K2013
While some extrusion machinery makers are keeping their new technology under wraps, waiting to showcase at the K2013, others are keen to share their new developments, which focus on efficiency...
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PRA September 2013
ON THE COVER:
Italian firms, like Bandera, WM Wrapping, Macchi and Piovan, are all geared up to showcase their technologies at the upcoming K2013 show in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 16-23 October
SUPPLEMENTS
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Sale of two Cooper Tire plants to India’s Apollo Tyres delayed
An American arbitrator has said that Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. cannot sell two of its factories in the country to India’s Apollo Tyres until a collective bargaining agreement is reached between Apollo and members of the plants’ union. The decision could...
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K2013: REP acquires Watson Brown HSM
French rubber injection moulding machinery maker REP International has acquired Watson Brown HSM-Berlin, its patented HSM devulcanisation technology as well as its devulcanisation centre. This centre is equipped with an operational devulcanisation line and...
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