• Specialty thermoplastics help reduce vehicle and consumer product weight, leading to improved fuel efficiency and higher performance • Expansion increases global manufacturing capacity of Santoprene by 25 percent • Two new production…

In 2018, the WITTMANN Group again increased its sales figure compared to the previous year and thus continued its growth. Since the end of the year, however, the order situation has been showing first signs of slowing down. The WITTMANN…

RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers has announced the reallocation of the industrial activities of Radici Plastics B.V. to its other European plants, as part of the business area’s efficiency improvement plan in Europe. The objective…

Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, has launched Appretan NTR, a break-through water-based textile coating binder based on renewable natural ingredients. After the well reported…

Recyclate Initiative at PLMA trade show in Amsterdam The figures are nothing short of alarming. By 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the world's oceans if every year another nine million tons of plastic trash find their way to the sea…

Individual application testing for antimicrobial polymer treatments. New extruder expands and accelerates the laboratory service for masterbatches. A specially developed twin-screw extruder in the SANITIZED AG TecCenter allows even…

The market for glass bottles is estimated to continually thrive over the next few years. This especially holds true for the beer market but also for other categories, such as Water, Juices and Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD). To keep abreast…

VELOX GmbH, an IMCD company, one of Europe’s leading solution providers of raw material specialities for the plastics, composites, additives and paint & coatings industries, presents a new grade for its own brand PrimeTec for highly…

Technical knowledge based plastics compounder Luxus has as part of a consortium won an £840,462 Innovate UK grant to develop a novel process to remove retained odour from post-consumer recycled plastics. The aim of this new 30 month…

Baumüller Austria presents intelligent drive and automation solutions at Smart Automation 2019 in Linz, Austria Automation expert Baumüller will be exhibiting at Smart Automation 2019 in Linz from May 14 to 16, 2019 in hall DC at stand…