Rifeng announces price reductions for its Pipes, Brass Fittings and Valves. Although the company faces RMB appreciation, raw materials and labor cost increasing, this year, Rifeng still has excellent performances on customer satisfaction and market expansion amazingly, up till now Rifeng sales up more than 40% over the same period of last year.. More: KWD-globalpipe, 2008-10-28, No.296
GF Piping Systems will invest a total of CHF 21 million in its Schaffhausen location in order to expand distribution and production. About CHF 14 million of this amount will be invested in expanding the current distribution centre and improving its efficiency, while CHF 7 million will be set aside to increase manufacturing capacity of plastic products in the Schaffhausen plant. The investments will be made to satisfy the surge in demand, to eliminate delivery bottlenecks and to substantially improve operating processes. (weiterlesen…)
In taking over the company CodeConsulting based in Ibbenbüren, the KIWA Group Germany, part of the Dutch company Kiwa N.V. which uses a beaver as its logo, has bridged the consultancy gap in the “plastics” sector. Since 1st September 2008 the CodeConsulting team, which has operated successfully for many years in the field of international standards and certification, has been advising the customers of KIWA Zert GmbH on “plastics” and thus completes the portfolio of the KIWA Group Germany. Contact: Mueller@codeconsulting.de . More: KWD-globalpipe, No.294.
A group of major European equipment technology developers and material producers, together with Borealis, a leading provider of innovative value-creating plastics solutions, have joined forces to design a single-stage production process for high-performance peroxide-crosslinked polyethylene (PE-Xa) pipes.
The cooperative project involves Finland-based Crosslink Finland Oy, which produces infrared crosslinking units; Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik in Germany, which has developed some of the best twin-screw extruders available for this technology; German company, iNOEX, which supplies innovative dynamic mixing, dosing and control units; Borealis, which has developed two new grades in its BorPEXTM range of crosslinkable high molecular weight, high density polyethylenes especially designed to suit this production process; as well as AkzoNobel, who delivers the suitable type of peroxide and Ciba who provides the additives. (weiterlesen…)
