Chemours Breaks Ground for World’s First Full-Scale Production of HFO-1336mzz

30-Nov-2015 - The Chemours Company announced that, along with its partner Changshu 3F Zhonghao, it has broken ground on the world’s first full-scale production facility for HFO-1336mzz in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, China. This site, expected to begin production mid-year 2017, will provide increased capacity ...

Instron Consolidates Business Activities in Germany

16-Dec-2014 - Instron, Corp., Norwood, MA/USA, has combined its previously independent German subsidiaries, Instron Deutschland GmbH and Instron Structural Testing Systems GmbH (IST), into one organization, operating as Instron GmbH. There are currently around 130 employees at the company's Darmstadt ...

A Perfect Storm for the European Polyamide Industry?

16-Dec-2014 - Massive capacity additions in polyamide raw materials, mainly in China and, based on this, globally falling operating rates combined with slowing demand and high volatility in petrochemical raw materials are the challenges for the European polyamide industry in 2015 and beyond. Against this ...

Coperion to consolidate North American operations

06-Jun-2014 - Coperion GmbH, a subsidiary of Hillenbrand, Inc. announced that it will realign and relocate their North American operations based in Ramsey, New Jersey, USA to their other facilities located in Pitman, New Jersey, Wytheville, Virginia and Houston, Texas. This realignment is being implemented ...

New test center for up to 100 customer trials per year

23-Sep-2013 - Following an intensive planning and construction phase, Coperion GmbH, recently opened the world’s largest compounding test center. It replaces the existing test center and serves to provide customers both the optimum system design for required throughput rate capacity of compounding lines – ...

ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH begins operations

15-May-2012 - On May 1, ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH began business operations. This signaled the final step in the previously announced fusion of MANN+HUMMEL ProTec GmbH, Bensheim, a MANN+HUMMEL Group company, and OHL Engineering GmbH, Limburg, a company of the globally operating Schoeller Plast Industries. ...

Coperion acquires majority holding in Weicom s.r.l.

Portfolio now includes packaging and palletizing technology

10-May-2012 - With retrospective effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion s.r.l., Italy, a subsidiary of Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, has acquired the majority holding in Weicom s.r.l., Ferrara, Italy. Weicom specializes in weighing, packaging and palletizing technology and supplies to plastics compounders, ...

New European director at DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts

02-Mar-2012 - Effective March 1st, 2012, Sylvie Gallou is the new Regional Director for DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts in EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa), relocating to the company's European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. She succeeds Raymond Palmen, who is now the Regional Director for ...

Coperion secures majority stake in PELL-TEC

Product portfolio now extended to include pelletizing technology

20-Jan-2012 - With effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH, Niedernberg, Germany. Established over ten years ago, PELL-TEC supplies pelletizing systems to customers operating in the plastics processing and recycling industry. ...

FKuR and Braskem sign Green PE Compounding Agreement

27-Sep-2011 - Braskem and FKuR have signed a compounding agreement for BioPE, Green PE. This strong partnership will result in the first tailor-made green polyethylene compounds available in Europe. Braskem was seeking an experienced partner to increase their European market share and develop high value ...