Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth US$ 1.075 billion to The Linde Group, a world leading gases and engineering company, to build another 1.5 million tonnes per year (t/y) ethane cracker at its production site in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Borealis investment ensures superior high flow materials for automotive and food packaging customers.
Sarlink has officially opened a new production facility in Genk Belgium. The new plant will double Sarlink’s global capacity and provide the company with a timely expansion as Thermoplastic Vulcanisate (TPV) material solutions are becoming more popular than ever, thanks to the material’s unique balance of properties and benefits.
Following the successful completion of the feasibility study announced last year, Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has decided to enter the FEED (front-end engineering and design) stage of its Borouge 3 project.
A manufacturer of food packaging is investing €300,000 in a project to expand its production in Poland to manufacture plastic-based processed sausage casings.
BASF has started production of its Neopor EPS at a new plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, which is using an extrusion process instead of the traditional suspension method of production.
Leading specialty chemical company Clariant is building a surfactants plant in Zhenjiang, Eastern China to help meet the needs of the country’s growing demand. The new facility is scheduled for production in the middle of 2009.
Braskem, the leading company in the thermoplastic resins industry in Latin America and third-largest resin producer in the Americas, announces it will deactivate its PET.
Greiner Packaging AG Switzerland, a company of Greiner Packaging International, will sell its product segment composite cans by 31 May 2009.
Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has inaugurated officially the Guangzhou Logistics hub.
The world’s largest rigid PET sheet plant has opened in the Omani port of Salalah, says its operator Octal Petrochemicals.
Can – Pack, the company based in Poland, strengthens its position on the international cans and closures market.
