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Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Market Report: India’s Plastics Industry
...me 75 to 80 % of the company’s revenue. However, he envisioned the Reliance group acquiring a more global character in the years ahead. He said that his company, which acquired the German polyester fibre company Trevira last year, was looking for suitable acquisitions in Asia, though he would not reveal the nature of such assets. However, small companies in India are saying that the concentration of the petrochemical operations in the hands of four or five big players in the country was creatin...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-02-20, Bio-Polybutylene Terephthalate: Opportunities for “Green” Plastics
...rs have now tested samples of the bio-PBT from the proof-of-principle trial. For example, on a pilot scale, PBT could be successfully substituted as sheath material for a bi-component fiber (Trevira GmbH, Bobingen, Germany) (Fig. 3). Moreover, samples of the bio-PBT-based material were examined with postive results for the production of a housing component for a plug socket combination (Title figure) (Mennekes Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Kirchhundem, Germany). Trials at Lanxess and its custome...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-08-19, Eco-Friendly Fire Prevention
...0 V) are obtained than with organic phosphinates but at the expense of poorer performance in the UL 94 V test.For flame-retardant PA and PBT fibers, cocondensates with phosphorus-containing diacids have been the standard solution for many years (Trevira CS, Toyobo Heim). At the present time, development is moving in the direction of mixing PET or PA polymers directly with a phosphorus-containing polymer before the spinning process. The products being used are, for example, Ukanol FR 80 (Schill+S...