Akcros
Akcros Business Centre
Schepersweg 3
6049 CV Roermond (Herten)
Postbus 44
6040 AA Roermond
Netherlands
07-12-2001
Plastics and Processing Additives divests Lead Stabilisers business
December 5, 2001- Following the announcement in August of this year, regarding its intention to discontinue its lead stabilizers and related rigid plastic applications business, Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives, which trades as Akcros Chemicals, has signed an agreement for a Management Buy-Out (MBO) by a team of key personnel on December 3, 2001. The MBO-team will form a new company under the name of Allstab, which will continue the Akcros Chemicals operations in Dueren, Dahlem (Germany) and Roermond (Netherlands). Akcros Chemicals will keep responsibility for the Rigids Stabilisers business during the first quarter of 2002 and will transfer the business to Allstab in April 2002.
03-12-2001
Akcros Chemicals Invests in the Production of Solid Stabilisers
As part of its strategy of meeting the growing demand for PVC Stabilisers combining high performance with low volatility and odour, Akcros Chemicals will invest in increased production of the INTERLITE® ZP range of solid mixed metal soap stabilisers at its Eccles, UK, facility.
25-10-2001
Akcros Chemicals launches new low viscosity bonding agent(in English)
DÜSSELDORF October 25, 2001: Vulcabond MD is the latest addition to Akcros Chemicals' Vulcabond range of bonding agents which improve the adhesion of PVC plastisols to polyester, nylon and other synthetic fabrics.
25-10-2001
Akcros Chemicals America expands its broad range of biocides for the worldwide plastics industry
DÜSSELDORF October 25, 2001: Akcros Chemicals is a prominent force in thermoplastic additives supply worldwide, as well as being a leading global supplier of biocidal actives for the plastics industry. Akcros Chemicals America (New Brunswick) has recently expanded its broad range of biocides following a series of successful US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)* registrations and new technology developments.
30-07-2001
Akcros Chemicals reviews price of epoxidised soyabean oil
Fuelled by the upsurge of the cost of soyabean oil, Akcros Chemicals, the UK-based Plastics and Processing Additives business of Akzo Nobel, will increase its prices for epoxidised soyabean oil by 15 percent from September 1, 2001 or as contracts will allow.
30-07-2001
Akzo Nobel to restructure PVC-Additives Business for Rigid Applications
Eccles (UK), June 15, 2001. Akzo Nobel Business Unit Plastics and Processing Additives (which trades as Akcros Chemicals) today announced plans for restructuring its PVC additives for rigid applications business. The restructuring will affect locations in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, but will not entail plant closures. Said Kees van Nierop, Managing director of Akcros Chemicals: “One third of Akcros‘ sales are derived from the rigid application segment and this restructuring is intended to lower our cost base and make room for new products in the future. As announced by our Chief Financial Officer, Mr Fritz Fröhlich, in the first quarter, this is a part of accelerated restructuring in the chemicals group."
10-07-2001
Specialty stabilizers from Akcros Chemicals America now commercially available
Akcros Chemicals America recently made a range of new INTERSTAB® heat stabilizers designed for very specific flexible PVC applications more generally available to the industry as a whole. These liquid barium-zinc based stabilizers were developed at the specific request of a select group of North American processors and target several different critical specialty applications.
01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals America introduces lower cost one-pack stabilizers
Akcros Chemicals’ ongoing research and development has resulted in the market introduction of two new low cost, one-pack stabilizer systems. The new products, INTERSTAB® T-5172 and INTERSTAB® T-5201, extend the company’s already broad INTERSTAB® product family and are designed to offer greater cost-efficiency in rigid PVC applications, without any compromises in performance.
01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals chooses K2001 to exhibit under Akzo Nobel banner for the first time
Akcros Chemicals will be exhibiting under the banner of its parent company, Akzo Nobel, for the first time since mid-1998 when they agreed to purchase the remaining fifty-percent of the joint venture from its partner Elementis.
16-05-2001
Akzo Nobel makes strategic investment in polysulfide expansion
Arnhem, the Netherlands, May 16, 2001 – Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives (PPA), operating under the name Akcros Chemicals, the leading global player in the polysulfide market, will invest in a major expansion at its Greiz facility in Germany. Due for completion early in 2002, the expansion will provide additional polysulfide tonnage primarily for use in aerospace sealants and other high-tech, high added value applications.