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Scientists Create Extremely Strong Stretchable Electrode for Wearable Devices
Baspar/Iranpolymer Professor Runwei Li’s group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) has devised a nano-liquid-metal-based extremely powerful stretchable electrode (NHSE) for a variety of electronic skin (e-skin) applications, including human healthcare monitoring and…
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New Light-Driven Catalysts Facilitate Manufacturing Processes
Baspar/Iranpolymer Chemical reactions powered by light are extremely helpful to chemists who are developing new methods to make pharmaceuticals and other beneficial compounds. Exploiting this light energy necessitates photoredox catalysts, which can capture light and convey the energy to a…
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Turkey: Wind turbine construction increases by 7 percent
Baspar / Iranpolymer The share of renewable energy sources in Turkey’s energy mix is expected to increase by 5 percentage points to 40 percent this year. At just over 10,000 MW, wind energy accounts for around a tenth of the…
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Russia sanctions hit Plastic Industry with varying degrees of severity
Baspar / Iranpolymer Good news has been in short supply since Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began. After the atrocities in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, the EU has now decided on further sanctions against the aggressor. The extent…
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Composites: Further price increases for resins towards the end of the year
Baspar / Iranpolymer The resin producers are turning the price screw every month. Polynt (Italy) wants to make unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins more expensive at the turn of the year due to higher costs for energy and CO2…
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Borealis buys minority stake in Bockatech
Baspar / Iranpolymer For an unspecified amount, the polyolefin group Borealis (Vienna / Austria) bought a minority stake in Bockatech (Wyton / Great Britain), a technology provider for the production of sustainable packaging solutions. The investment is intended to deepen…
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South Korea: The explosion in Yeosu killed three people
Baspar / Iranpolymer An explosion at the South Korean chemical and petrochemical site in Yeosu killed at least three people. The incident occurred on December 13, 2021, shortly after midnight, while welding work on the pipelines of a naphtha tank. The…
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Engineering thermoplastics: Little price movement in November
Baspar / Iranpolymer With a few exceptions, there was hardly any movement in the listings for engineering thermoplastics in November. The main reason for this was the compound prices that were often fixed for the quarter. The producers deal intensively with…
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Dow: Cracker failure in Terneuzen reaches styrene and polyols
Baspar / Iranpolymer The failure of two of the three crackers that Dow (Midland, Michigan / USA) operates at the Terneuzen site in the Netherlands, which has since been confirmed, has consequences for a number of other plants and also…
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Iran-Pakistan Transport Deal to Ease China-Europe Cargo Transit
Baspar / Iranpolymer pakistan and Iran have reached an agreement to facilitate the transit of cargo trucks from China to Europe, which move will support the economies of the two countries. The development was announced by Iran’s Minister of Roads…
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77% Growth in Exports From Bushehr
Baspar / Iranpolymer total of 15,186,000 tons of goods valued at $5.41 billion were exported from the southern province in the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22), registering a 7% increase in terms of weight…
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The World Plastics Industry to meet in Tüyap for the 30th Time
Baspar / IranpolymerPlast Eurasia Istanbul, the most important fair of the plastics industry in the region, brings the most important manufacturers together in its 30th year. The fair will be held in cooperation with TÜYAP Tüm Fuarcılık Yapım AS and…
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Dubai to host ArabPlast 2021 in mid-November
Baspar / Iranpolymer The GCC’s petrochemicals, plastics and rubber producers will discuss innovation strategies at ArabPlast 2021, which will take place from 15th to 18th November at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, with the participation of 6 international pavilions…
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The pavilion of the Islamic Republic of Iran was officially inaugurated at Expo 2020 Dubai
Baspar / IranPolymer According to the reports by the Public Relations and International Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran International Exhibitions Company (IIEC PR), the opening ceremony of the Islamic Republic of Iran Pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai with…
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Engel: More recyclate in sandwich components
Baspar / Iranpolymer The new coinjection process, which Engel, Schwertberg (Austria) developed together with Top Grade Molds, Mississauga (Canada), enables a high proportion of recycled material to be completely enclosed in new goods in the manufacture of buckets and is…
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LyondellBasell: Acquisition of a PP compounding facility in Malaysia
Baspar / Iranpolymer The plastics manufacturer LyondellBasell (LYB, Houston, Texas / USA) has acquired all shares in the compounder PolyPacific Polymers (Port Klang / Malaysia). The Malaysian company with production capacities for polyolefin compounds will now be renamed, announced LyondellBasell.…
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PVC: prices chase from record to record
Baspar / Iranpolymer The bull market continues. PVC prices continued to climb unstoppably in June 2021, marking new highs. Demand, especially from the construction sector, remained high. The driving force, however, was once again the tense supply situation, the increase…
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PUR: Covestro declares force majeure for MDI
Baspar / Iranpolymer So far, the majority of the market participants in the PUR industry were still hoping for relaxation. However, on July 2, 2021, MDI producer Covestro (Leverkusen) reported an “unforeseeable loss of production” in Brunsbüttel and declared force…
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Polyethylene: Sabic declares force majeure on PE-LD
Baspar / Iranpolymer Once again, it is “technical difficulties beyond our own control” that are causing a force majeure in polyethylene – this time declared by petrochemical company Sabic (Riyadh / Saudi Arabia) on July 7, 2021. According to a…
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Coca-Cola: Beverage company increases RE PET share
Baspar / Iran polymer The soft drink multinational is increasingly relying on the use of RE PET in its one-way deposit bottles and is reporting further progress in its sustainability efforts: The PET bottles of the brands “ViO”, “Fuze Tea”…
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