Other Public Victims of Coronavirus Come One By One
Yesterday, Feb. 11th, 2020, when we were discussing the “MUST” or “SHOULD NOT” postpone our event (ConfEx 2020- Iran) with several friends in some corners of the world, we didn’t know that we have to be waiting for other postponement news. The first news belongs to us. The Secretariat of the event announced a text […]
High Performance Materials And Pioneering Shoe Concepts At SIMAC
A virtual concept shoe made entirely of innovative BASF materials, a 3D printed shoe made from TPU, breathtaking creations by young designers – this and other product-related innovations will be presented by BASF at SIMAC, the international machine and technology fair for shoes in Milan. From February 19 to 21, visitors to Hall 14, Stand […]
Increasing Supply And Trade Volume Irrespective of Decreased Demand For Materials
This week’s announcement of the new base prices for materials showed price increases for many materials under the influence of another increase in the official price of the US$. The official price or US$ (NIMA System) increased by 1..98% equal to Rls. 2,409, whereas some materials increased by more than 4%, showing that the formulas […]
Sustainable Solution For Cling Film Used In Fresh-Food Packaging
BASF and Fabbri Group have developed a sustainable solution for cling film used in fresh-food packaging: Based on BASF’s certified compostable ecovio®, Fabbri Group produces the highly transparent stretch film Nature Fresh. Meat, seafood as well as fruit and vegetables can be wrapped manually or with automatic packaging equipment. Industrial stretch packaging is also possible. […]
Icma San Giorgio Celebrates Its 75 Years of Activity
According to mostly interesting news and articles of the “macplasonline“which has so far published 453 of this valuable weekly media for the global readers the Italian company “Icma San Giorgio” has celebrated its 75 yeas of activity. The article says: Founded in 1945 by the Colombo family already active in the foundry sector since 1908, […]
3D Printing Also Suitable For Super-Soft TPE Compounds
KRAIBURG TPE has performed extensive tests to examine the suitability of its thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) for use in additive manufacturing (AM). The tests have shown that almost all of the company’s TPEs can be processed with excellent results using fused deposition modeling (FDM) on devices from Pollen AM. Additive manufacturing is making giant strides in […]
The Most Famous Corona Virus Victim Shocks World's Polymer Industry
Today through an official announcement issued by “Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd” the polymer world became aware of the postponement of CHINAPLAS 2020. The official text says: ********************* Dear Media friends, In order to control the novel coronavirus epidemic in China and in accordance with the instructions issued by the Shanghai city government to stop all […]
Achievement of 100% Green Electricity Consumption at Clariant Knapsack Production Site
Clariant will continue to power its BU Additives production facility in Knapsack, Germany, solely with 100% renewable electricity following the site’s successful pilot switch one year ago. This underlines Clariant’s continued efforts of shifting to the use of renewables for its electricity demand, lowering the impact on climate change. The site in Knapsack is home […]
Are Iranian Petrochemicals Going to Defend Trump Re-Election?
Today, Sun. Feb. 2nd 2020, the new base prices for majority of polymers and petrochemicals were announced by the pricing committee of NPC. Since most grades and groups of polymers and petrochemicals faced again with incremental trend, so, some political and economic experts are in doubt that perhaps the main decision makers in Iran’s petrochemicals […]
