Plastics
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13 Nov 2007
SABIC Innovative Plastics Exits Schwarzheide JV to Develop Newer High-Performance PBT Resins for Customers
BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS – Nov. 13, 2007 – SABIC Innovative Plastics today announced it has signed an agreement, subject to regulatory approvals, to divest itself of its share in a 12-year joint venture with BASF Aktiengesellschaft, which produces polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin in Schwarzheide, Germany. As part of this divestiture, SABIC Innovative Plastics will ensure continuity of supply for European customers through a contract to purchase PBT resin from BASF for a defined period of time. The transfer is expected by December 31st, 2007.
13 Nov 2007
New Bormod achieves step change in food packaging productivity
In response to the needs of the food packaging industry for more efficient and higher quality packaging, Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has launched Bormod™ BJ368MO. This new injection moulding polypropylene (PP) grade offers sturdy performance, faster productivity and light weight properties. The new solution can be used to produce consumer food containers for products such as refrigerated salads, margarines, and fresh and frozen dairy products.
• Operating profit growth in Q3, 29% above the same period in 2006
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – Oct. 24, 2007 – Here at Kunstoffe 2007, Germany, GLS Corp., a global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of high-performance, custom-formulated thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), today introduced a new family of TPEs based on INFUSE™ olefin block copolymers (OBC) from The Dow Chemical Company. The new DYNALLOY® OBC injection-molding and blow-molding grades allow GLS to offer customers a broad array of standard and customized TPE alloys for a wide range of applications. With the new DYNALLOY line, GLS has expanded the existing property and application range of OBC technology with exceptional softness, unique feels, a wider range of flow characteristics in injection molding, and introduced a new blow-moldable grade range. DYNALLOY OBCs offer a silky soft touch feel, excellent colorability, isotropic shrinkage, and flow characteristics enabling use in complex molds with long flow paths. 
The Chemtura Team Launches New Adiprene® K One-Component Urethane Systems at UTECH (shown here), API, Rubber Expo and the K-Show. Interest was at a record high at the trade shows, based on inquiries. New Adiprene K is a time/cost-saving one-component urethane system. It ends worries about accurate weighing and mixing, since Chemtura fixes the stoichiometry at its plant. It works for the creation of big or small parts and complex geometries. 
Moscow, Russia – November 7, 2007 – BPC Chemical Technologies has been appointed as the exclusive distributor for Songwon products in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and CIS countries.