Two Sweet Days For Market Manipulators And No Trading At IME
As far as the polymer market in Iran is concerened two days of the week are the sweet days for market manipulators and those who “buy cheap to sell higher”; Sturdays and Thursdays. Sturdays are sweet days because it is the day before PDID Office interference with the market for base price definitions, and so […]
Takeover of Italy's Lameplast An Acquisition Strategy To Grow
Tekni-Plex‘s growth-through-acquisitions strategy continues. The company announced it has purchased Lameplast, a plastic packaging manufacturer for pharmaceuticals, from private equity firm the Aksìa Group. The purchase price was not disclosed. Lameplast will be assigned to Tekni-Plex’s films business. The Italian company makes rigid plastic packaging such as single- and multi-dose jars and containers for pharmaceutical, […]
The Lowest Trade Volumes Recorded Today At IME Hall
Today, Wed. July 4th, the IME hall for petrochemical deals of the Iran Mercantile Exchange faced with a more cooler days of polymer trades in very hot weather of Tehran. The total number of deals showed only 20 times of trading of polymers by those who are allowed to buy from the stock exchange. Yesterday […]
A Cold Tuesday For The Polymer Trade Market Even With Doubling Trades At IME
Today’s trade volumes, not only did not improve the market for polymers, but also witnessed a deterioration of the situation over last week. The total amount of supplies, irrespective of what was announced before, was about 62,500 tons. The total demand registered for polymer products was about 26,000 tonnes, down from last week. This week, […]
Vinyl Polymer Broken Down to Aspirin Components
Before you read this, look around your room. How much of your surroundings are made of plastic? The chair that you sit on, the desk, the casing on your computer and monitor, the pen you use, the carpet, the shoes you wear, your clothes, your bag, the soda bottle you sip from, the furniture, the […]
The 17th International Exhibition of Public Transport and Urban Services
The International Public Transportation and Urban Services Exhibition (ITUF2019) is held annually with the presence of domestic and foreign companies in an area of 30,000 square meters, with the participation of countries such as Korea, Japan, China, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, Singapore, Russia and other international companies. This exhibition will be held […]
Austrian "Circumat" Advances Polyolefins Recycling And Material Quality
A total of eight Austrian companies have, with the involvement of the network Business Upper Austria, set themselves the target to advance the recycling of polyolefins from household waste. For this, the partners in the Circumat project including Borealis, Erema, Lindner and Greiner Packaging as well as the University of Linz are starting off with […]
Paper on PE Film Recycling Released by PRE
Plastics Recyclers Europe has released a publication titled Flexible Polyethylene Recycling in Europe Accelerating the Transition Towards Circular Economy. The paper includes information on prerequisites for increasing the recycling of flexible PE (widely used in food and non-food applications) into high-quality recyclate while also considering sustainability and cost effectiveness. Plastic film waste is still perceived as a […]
Polymers Official and Free Market Prices in Iran
Due to the possibility of being a holiday on Sat. and Sunday (the event that happens only in Iran) today Sunday June 30th., there were no base price announcement for this week. So the prices announced last week (click here)a are valid till next week July 7th. The green table shows the today’s prices in […]
