Oct 19,2011
Global demand for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) is forecast to rise 6.3% per year to 5.6m tonnes in 2015, according to a new report from Freedonia. The global market will benefit from the rising use of TPEs in developing ...
Oct 14,2011
American PVC prices are moving south in major global markets including Turkey, Italy and Egypt while import prices for this origin were also moving down in China’s PVC market prior to the one week long National holiday in ...
Oct 14,2011
Import PVC prices are moving lower for the fourth consecutive week in Southeast Asia as persistently weak demand along with tumbling upstream costs pushed sellers into agreeing to further reductions on their October prices. This ...
Oct 13,2011
The findings from a trial funded by Waste & Resources Action Program (Wrap) indicate it could soon be possible to recycle almost all domestic plastic packaging waste. According to Wrap, despite more than 300,000 metric tons of ...
Oct 10,2011
Last year saw a robust recovery in foreign deliveries by German plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers, according to a Sept. 20 news release by the VDMA, the German Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association. But in spite of ...
Oct 09,2011
Tightness in raw material supplies has sent North American prices for PET bottle resin up by an average of 4 cent per pound since Sept. 1. Paraxylene feedstock, in particular, has been in tight supply, according to buyers ...
Oct 09,2011
China’s total polymer imports reached the highest level of 2011 in August. According to the recent data released by the Chinese Customs Agency, China imported 1.51 tons of plastics in August 2011, with the country’s ...
Sep 29,2011
American and European plastics firms are stepping up their investments in medical manufacturing in China, as that country undertakes a major expansion of its health-care system. The investments are driven both by global ...
Sep 29,2011
While the market is still booming in China, the country’s top machine makers are looking to expand outside their borders. And they’re interested in more than just exports. In countries like Brazil, India and Russia, ...
Sep 28,2011
Italian plastics and rubber machinery makers experienced a 22 percent increase in exports in the first half of 2011, according to figures released by the country’s machinery association Assocomaplast. Exports reached an ...
Sep 26,2011
For the first time in history, the Society of Plastics Engineers Inc. has given its Mold Maker of the year award to an executive at a company outside North America. SPE’s Mold Making and Mold Design division presented the ...
Sep 23,2011
Thailand is opening its own institute supported by both the public and private sectors to develop the local plastics industry into a major force in Asean. The institute starts operating today with full-time staff, headed by ...
Sep 22,2011
With the implementation of the 12th Five-Year Plan, more and more manufacturing industries have placed their focus on the materials and equipments featuring energy-saving and environmental protection. Under the 12th Five-Year ...
Sep 22,2011
Statistics from the Rubber Trade Association of Japan show that the country's stock of natural rubber hit 8,623 tons as of August 20, an increase of 34% from 10 days ago when 6,458 tons of natural rubber was in stock. This stock ...
Sep 21,2011
Canadian companies were on a buying spree in the spring despite financial turmoil in Europe and the U. S., according to a report released Wednesday. There were 836 merger and acquisitions announced, worth about $57 billion (U. S. ...
Sep 19,2011
Oil prices hovered above $89 a barrel Thursday in Asia after a report showed a bigger than expected drop in U. S. Crude supplies, suggesting demand could be improving. Benchmark oil for October delivery was down 1 cent to $89.33 ...
Sep 19,2011
Exports of Thailand-made plastic products are expected to hit US$3 billion this year, according to a report on August, well exceeding the amount of US$2.3 billion last year. The economic value of the plastics industry as a whole ...
Sep 19,2011
India appears to be the hottest market nowadays for automotive investment, with the latest company to break ground on a new assembly facility and engine plant being Ford Motor (Detroit). The $900 million complex will be located in ...
Sep 19,2011
Several major global markets have been seeing lower offers for American PVC recently, which was attributed to globally thin buying interest towards fresh, long distance import cargoes as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. ...
Sep 16,2011
KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH has doubled its sales of new injection molding machinery in Brazil to 18 million euros ($25.9 million) this year, a senior official says. “We’ve had our best year in Brazil, ” the ...
