Cyclics anuncia un acuerdo de distribución con IMCD Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (antes Interorgana)

CyclicsSchwarzheide, Alemania - Cyclics Europe GmbH ha anunciado la celebración de un acuerdo europeo de distribución con IMCD Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (antes Interorgana), que distribuirá productos de resina CBT® Cyclics que se utilizan como aditivos o como portadores para aplicaciones de compounding y masterbatch.

CHEMTURA INCREASES AXION™ TIN CATALYST PRICES

ChemturaChemtura Corporation announces the following price increases for its Axion™ line of tin catalysts:

DBTO $2.40/kg (1.80 Euro/kg)
DOTO $2.30/kg (1.73 Euro/kg)
MBTO $2.50/kg (1.88 Euro/kg)

GE Plastics expresa su reconocimiento a sus principales socios europeos proveedores de servicios logísticos en una Ceremonia anual de entrega de premios

Proveedor de servicios logísticos del año de GE Plastics: Van Den Bosch, Países BajosBERGEN OP ZOOM, PAÍSES BAJOS — 15 de mayo de 2007 — Para destacar el papel esencial que desempeñan sus socios logísticos en la entrega de un excelente servicio al cliente durante 2006, GE Plastics otorgó su reconocimiento a cinco empresas y dos personas en una ceremonia de premios y posterior cena que tuvo lugar aquí el pasado 12 de abril. El programa de entrega de premios, que alcanza ya su cuarto año, reconoce la calidad, servicio y entrega puntual demostradas por los proveedores de servicios logísticos, que permiten a GE Plastics satisfacer los compromisos adquiridos con sus clientes.

Rhodia Polyamide opens its first Technical Centre in China
Dedicated facility provides close customer support for

Rhodia Engineering PlasticsLyon, France - May 14th, 2007 - Rhodia has reinforced its commitment to the Asian markets with the recent opening of a technical centre in Shanghai, consolidating Rhodia’s global technical centre network. The new facility brings the complete spectrum of engineering support to customers across the broad range of industries served by Rhodia Polyamide's engineering plastics materials in China and the wider Asian region.

BODY ARMOR WITH DYNEEMA® TO SERVE DURING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING

DyneemaURMOND (NL), 14 May 2007 - Bullet-resistant vests and helmets made with ultra-strong, light weight Dyneema® unidirectional (UD) from DSM for personnel security will help China create a safer environment for the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. A vest design manufactured by Zhong Tian Feng Protection Products Technology Company Ltd. (ZTF), which features Dyneema® SB21, won a highly competitive and prestigious tender from the Beijing Bureau of Public Security.

The 3rd ICIS Asian Polymer Conference held in Shanghai

ICISRising crude values and expanded domestic capacity could restrain China’s volume of polymer imports this year. This was the message from a senior China customs official speaking at the 3rd ICIS Asian Polymer Conference in Shanghai this month. Zhang Bingzheng, Deputy Director of the Statistical Department of General Administration of China Customs, told over 100 high-level delegates that the rising price of imported crude in 2006 had made polymer imports more expensive. In 2006, the average import price of crude in China was $457.4/tonne, which was a rise of 21.6% on an annual basis. This was exacerbated by the fact that last year the domestic capacity of polymers expanded and replaced some imports, he added.

Songwon’s new antioxidant plant in production

SONGWONUlsan, Korea, May 14, 2007 – The new Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd. grass roots antioxidant manufacturing site in Maeam, Korea which was completed ahead of schedule at the beginning of April 2007 is now in commercial operation.

Rhodia Polyamide’s Engineering Plastics joins Omnexus (www.omnexus.com) to provide the global engineering plastics community with Innovations and Services

Rhodia Engineering PlasticsLyon, France - May 10th, 2007 – Rhodia Polyamide’s Engineering Plastics activities and SpecialChem announce today their new partnership on the Omnexus Platform offering services to the plastics and elastomers engineering community.