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Russia: The plastics industry is preparing for tough times
Baspar / Iranpolymer Russia’s petrochemical industry will face difficult times again in 2023 due to ever-slumping export figures, a lack of spare parts due to sanctions and weak domestic demand. At least that was the core thesis put forward by…
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PureCycle: First European chemical recycling plant announced
Baspar / Iranpolymer The recycling specialist PureCycle Technologies (USA) wants to build its first European plant for the recycling of polypropylene in the “NextGen District” of the port of Antwerp in the coming year 2024. The listed US company stated…
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Engel: Ten percent shorter dry cycle time
Baspar / Iranpolymer In high-speed applications, the time it takes for the injection molding machine to open and close the mold is a significant component of the cycle time. Like a robot arm, the movable mold clamping platen of the…
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Russia: Domestic plastics production and exports to China collapse
Baspar / Iranpolymer From January to August, Russia exported significantly fewer polymers to China than in the same period last year. According to Peter Bazurow, Director General of the Russian Association of Plastics Processors RUSAPP (Russia), the export volume of…
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Recycling: New EU regulations for plastics that come into contact with food
Baspar / Iranpolymer New rules for the use of recycled plastics in food packaging have been in force across the EU since October 10, 2022. There is still a transition period until mid-2023, but a number of plastics recyclers and…
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Petra Cullmann, Executive Director Messe Düsseldorf, Interview with Baspar Magazine
Baspar / Iranpolymer K exhibition is being held for the 70th year now. How did it feel to hold this exhibition after a long pandemic? Petra Cullmann: K 2022 comes at precisely the right point in time to provide the…
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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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Color-Stable Polyamide Shines in Electromobility Applications
IRANPOLYMER/ BASPAR The new flame-retardant PA66 is colored bright orange, a hue in high demand in the auto industry. High-voltage components are usually exposed to significant and repetitive temperature fluctuations, which normally lead to strong discoloration in conventional polyamides (PAs).…
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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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