2014-2016 Exhibitions
September 2014 Archives
Lead Features
Taipeiplas 2014: in the running to be Asia's no.1 show?- US packaging and printing exhibition to showcase next generation technologies
- Ushering in better elastomer days
- Infrastructure paves the path for AEC
- Polyolefins addressing the global food challenge
- Extending sustainability through recycling
- Mobile healthcare, an industry game changer
- Plastic packaging: less is more
Company News
- Hyundai/Shell start up Korean base oil facility; capturing lubricants growth in Asia
- Bayer to float MaterialScience on the stock market
- Toyo Tire sets up PU subsidiary in Thailand
- Bemis sells off pressure sensitive materials unit; US$170 mn purchase price
- Schütz opens facility in Indonesia; IBCs made locally
- Solvay to buy Ryton; US$220 mn price tag
- Schulman pressing on with growth in Asia Pacific; acquires Australian firm
- LyondellBasell to build PO/TBA plant on US gulf coast; focus on PU market
Materials News
- Hexcel to expand carbon fibre in France; capacity for Airbus’s AX350
- PolyOne starts up Indian masterbatch facility
- Clariant doubles pigment capacity in India
- Lehmann & Voss takes over US compounder
- Bayer to beef up TPU facility in India
- Sabic and Chinese Academy collaboration
- Lanxess expands new Chinese plant for inorganic pigments
- BASF starts up butadiene plant; doubles capacity in Europe
- DuPont increasing capacity in US; US$100 mn investment
- PVC and rigid packaging on the uptrend in Asia Pacific
- Global methanol demand to increase; China driving growth
- Evonik expanding speciality silica capacity in Japan; global capacity up by 30%
- Europe recycled over 65 billion PET bottles in 2013; 7% increase over previous year
- Rail car interiors with enhanced individuality; PC used by China South Railway
- Asia to account for 50% of composites use; JEC into its 7th year
Machinery News
- Tri-sector industry show in Indonesia culminates in success
- Scientex to produce CPP films; buys lines from Reifenhäuser
- Plastics and rubber show etches strong global position for Indonesia
- Italian machinery exports to Asia increase
- Macchi secures blown film segment with POD technology
- Industrial transformation, new technologies headlining at Chinaplas 2015
- Show to stage start-up players in the Italian industry
- Rajoo enters into jv with Meaf to offer high-tech thermoformers
