M-real will start discussions with its customers to increase the price for coated magazine papers on the European markets by EUR 50 per tonne.
Nazdar, the largest manufacturer of screen and digital printing inks in North America, announces the use of Lyson 7100 ink series for use in Gandinnovations true flatbed UV digital printers such as the Jeti 3150.
ThermoFuse-based :Azura TS, with advanced clean-out system and improved contrast, to be introduced at drupa 2008.
Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric business processes, today announced that it has sent a letter to Vector Capital, a private equity firm which has made an unsolicited proposal to acquire all of the Company’s outstanding shares.
BASF will increase its prices for acrylic acid and acrylic esters (glacial acrylic acid; methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate), as far as existing contracts permit. This is the companys reaction to inadequate margins. The price increases for acrylic monomers will differentiate in the regions as follows.
As of April 1, 2008, BASF will be raising prices in Europe for the styrenic plastics commodity Terluran (ABS: acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer) by 70 euros per metric ton. At the same time the prices for the styrenics plastics specialty Luran (SAN: styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer) will be increased by the same amount.
Finnish forest industry group UPM and Russian Sveza Group have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture company, and to make a final investment decision after finalising the feasibility study on a state-of-the-art forest industry facility in the Vologda region of Northwest Russia. Each party would hold 50 percent of the joint ventures share capital.
