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• Styrolution Establishes Global and European Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany

  The supplier of styrenics will operate from its global headquarters located in Frankfurt, Germany. The new facility was officially inaugurated on Nov. 11 for employees from all global functions, as well as several functions from the EMEA region. “We are looking forward to start working at our new, g more

• Styrolution commences business

  BASF SE and INEOS AG have received approvals from all relevant antitrust authorities for the formation of the joint venture Styrolution. Closing is effective as of October 1, 2011. From this date on Styrolution operates independently. Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive more

• EU Commission approves formation of joint venture Styrolution

  The EU Commission has given its approval for the formation of the joint venture Styrolution. BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and INEOS Industries Holdings Limited, Lyndhurst, UK, now have EU clearance to combine in Styrolution their global business activities in styrene monomers (SM), polystyrene (P more

Publications Styrenics

• Preparation and characterization of hybrid membranes for fuel cell applications: hydrogenated styrene–butadiene rubber filled with alkyl, phenyl or tolyl sulfonated silica

  Abstract Polymers with ionic groups attached (ionomers) are indispensable electrolyte materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Nafion®, a widely used membrane, has many disadvantages: price, high methanol crossover and conductivity loss at temperatures above 80 °C. This work reports the more

• High Tg microspheres by dispersion copolymerization of N‐phenylmaleimide with styrenic or alkyl vinyl ether monomers

  Abstract Solution and dispersion copolymerizations of N‐phenylmaleimide (PMI) with either styrenics or alkyl vinyl ethers (AVEs), systems with a tendency to give alternating polymers, were investigated with the goal of producing high glass transition particles. Equimolar solution copolymerization more

Market studies Styrenics

• Spain Petrochemicals Report Q2 2012

  Spanish chemicals and plastics producers will witness a year of flat growth at best in 2012 as they face an increasingly hostile operating environment, according to BMI’s Spain petrochemicals report for Q212. In 2011, it is estimated that Spain had combined olefins capacities of 1.65mn tpa ethylene more

• Russia Petrochemicals Report Q2 2012

  A slowdown in Russian economic activity will soften demand in the petrochemicals market, but BMI’s latest Russia Petrochemicals Report states that there is still enough demand to sustain reasonably strong output growth. Demand for petrochemicals should grow at a higher rate than economic growth due more

• Egypt Petrochemicals Report Q4 2011

  The short-term outlook for the Egyptian petrochemicals market looks uncertain while production will be undermined by flagging export markets as well as the slowing domestic market, according to BMI’s latest Egypt Petrochemicals Report. We forecast a slowdown in economic activity with growth of 3.2% more

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