Cereplast invests in Italy
Sustainable plastics manufacturer Cereplast (El Segundo, CA) will establish a 100,000 tons/yr bioplastics manufacturing plant in Italy, bringing production into the region that generates 85% of its business.
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Matrix Polymers invests in Poland
Matrix Polymers is expanding its technical facility in Kolo by employing a Polish technical engineer and building a laboratory unit. The additional technical resource will strengthen the service Matrix provides to its clientele in Poland, Eastern and Central European countries.
Danone adopts green packaging technology in Canada
Danone Canada has announced two major innovations in packaging: a new ecological manufacturing process for its individual serving products, called ‘expansion’, and the use of an ecological high-density polyethylene for its drinkable yogurt packaging.
Borealis builds new butane storage cavern
Borealis invested EUR 7.8 million in new butane storage cavern at Stenungsund, Sweden.
Arkema starts up Kynar polymer production plant in China
Arkema successfully starts up Kynar fluorinated polymer production plant in China in a strong growth market.
Braskem launches cornerstone of new PVC plant
Unit under construction is located in Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas and will start operating in the first half of 2012.
New PTA plant built by Invista and China Prosperity Petrochemical
Invista Performance Technologies (IPT) and China Prosperity (Jiangyin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (China Prosperity) are delighted to announce the successful start-up of China Prosperity’s 600,000 tonnes per annum PTA plant. The PTA plant utilizes Invista’s market leading PTA process technology, provided to China Prosperity under a license agreement.
A.Schulman invests in Brazil
A. Schulman is following up big gains in sales and profit with plans to add a new extrusion line at its plant in Brazil.
KraussMaffei doubles production area for robots in Schwaig/Germany
KraussMaffei is doubling the production area at its subsidiary KraussMaffei Automation AG to meet the growth in demand for robot-assisted manufacturing solutions.
New PET recycling plant in France
APPE has invested €10m in increasing capacity at its PET recycling plant in Beaune, France, by 40%.
Total Petrochemicals develops bio-ethylene production technology
Total Petrochemicals, IFP Energies nouvelles and Axens to co-develop bio-ethylene production technology by dehydration of ethanol.
Sibur plans to expand its business
Russian petrochemicals group Sibur plans to expand its production of styrene-butadiene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) at its plant in Voronezh, in south western Russia.
