Trelleborg Printing Blankets has a new global head following the appointment of Thomas Patrick Linkenheil as PA (Product Area) Director. In his new role Mr Linkenheil, 43, has overall responsibility for around 800 employees who work at Trelleborg’s offset blanket manufacturing sites in France, Italy, China and the USA.
Q.I. Press Controls strengthens its foothold in the Chinese newspaper printing industry. In close cooperation with Goss Shanghai, twelve Goss Magnum 4-high printing towers were equipped with Q.I. Press Controls’ latest generation mRC+ colour register systems with register marks in 2010.
Norske Skog has signed a long-term contract with Statkraft for supply of power for the paper mill at Skogn in Mid-Norway. The contract secures the continued operations at the mill, which needed a new long term power supply contract by the beginning of 2011.
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) today announced it has completed the restart of a previously idled cracking unit at its Longview, Texas, site. The restart of this cracker increases Eastman’s olefin capacity by approximately 215,000 metric tons and brings the company’s total number of active cracking units to three.
Casco Adhesives, part of Akzo Nobel, one of the world’s leading chemicals corporations, has signed an agreement with IFS to upgrade and extend its business applications to streamline processes and improve environmental management. The extension includes the implementation by Casco Adhesives of IFS Eco-footprint Management, which will be used to analyze and document the environmental impact of its operations throughout the value chain.
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc., announced today that it will increase prices for its Albester, Albemast, Albecor and Albecor-Bio powder polyester resins in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Effective today, or as contracts allow, prices will increase from 0,08 /Kg to 0,10 /Kg.
Effective today, or as contracts allow, BASF increases prices globally for additives and pigments for plastic applications by a minimum of 7-25% depending on product class.
