Plastics firms target world's largest solar panel producer
SHANGHAI (May 8, 2012) -- Ever since Wuxi, China-based Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. became the world’s largest supplier of solar panels, China has dominated the solar market. A push to improve
the technology and increase solar capacity domestically is attracting more materials suppliers to the market.
Chinese firm pursues US market for UHMW-PE extruders
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KraussMaffei to make injection presses in Haiyan, China
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China’s Liansu sets up Canadian unit
HONG KONG (April 3, 2012) -- China’s largest plastic pipe extruder, Liansu Group Holdings Ltd., is broadening its business, launching a unit to make other home building products such as plastic
doors and windows, and setting up a subsidiary in Canada.
JM Eagle breaking ground on China plant
LOS ANGELES (April 3, 2012) -- U.S. pipe extruder JM Eagle plans to break ground on a new pipe manufacturing plant in China’s Hebei province on April 6, one of two plants the company is building in
the country.
Fatality under investigation at JM Eagle plant
LOS ANGELES (March 13, 2012) -- A maintenance worker was killed at JM Eagle’s McNary plant in Umatilla, Ore., late Saturday night, according to reports.
JM Eagle looks to expand in China
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 28, 2008) – Pipe extruder JM Eagle continues to have an eye on expansion in China.
India’s chronic water shortages mean growth for rotomolders
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PlasticsEurope cautiously optimistic about 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 17, 2012) -- PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the
Eurozone.
Firms develop spray foam based on sugar
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS (Jan. 10, 2012) -– SES Foam and Imperial Sugar Co. are introducing SucraSeal, which they claim is an environmentally friendly, open-cell, Class 1 sucrose-based spray foam
insulation.
PolyOne adds Stan-Tone production in Shenzhen
AVON LAKE, OHIO (Dec. 20, 2011) -- PolyOne Corp. has added production of Stan-Tone brand paste colorants at its plant in Shenzhen, China.
Church uses plastic, cardboard
 A-frame structure model
Evonik's wood-plastic composite focuses on acrylic
COLOGNE, GERMANY (Dec. 20, 2011) -- The polymer used in wood plastics composites (WPC) is usually polypropylene or PVC. But Evonik Industries AG has worked with machinery supplier Reifenhäuser GmbH &
Co. KG to develop an acrylic-based Plexiglas Wood brand.
Chinese firm offers pultruded PU window frame
SUZHOU, CHINA (Dec. 13, 2011) -- China’s Jiangsu Top Composite Technology Co. Ltd. has developed what it says is the country’s first energy-saving window frame made with pultruded glass fiber
reinforced polyurethane, in a partnership with Bayer MaterialScience.
Formica maker streamlines as Asian demand grows
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND (Nov. 29, 2011) -- Fletcher Building Ltd. has combined its Laminex Group and Formica Group businesses under a new laminates & panels division. The announcement follows
Formica’s plan to build a new laminates plant in China to capitalize on its Asian market success.
China's WPC makers look to domestic market and new applications
HUANGSHI, CHINA (Oct. 25, 2011) -- Facing declines in their traditional export markets in North America and Europe, Asia’s wood-plastic composite makers are increasingly switching their focus to
their regional markets, where local demand is growing more than 10 percent a year.
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