K Trade Show

Few competitions in the plastics industry are as well financed as the The SolVin Award for PVC Innovation. The triennial competition, in its fourth edition, culminates as per tradition in a gala awards program during the week of the K show in Düsseldorf, Germany (Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2010). SolVin, a 75:25 joint venture of Solvay and BASF, is one of the world’s largest suppliers of polyvinyl chloride and the largest intergated PVC supplier in Europe.

Judging from exhibitor bookings for next year’s K show, there may well be something to the premise that the worst of this recession is behind us. According to that show’s organizer, Messe Düsseldorf, it will again be a sellout with all 19 halls filled.

Even as processors and suppliers prepare for next month’s NPE show, an even larger industry event–K 2010–is fast approaching, and PlasticsToday learned today (May 7) that its flagship publications, Modern Plastics Worldwide and Injection Molding Magazine, have been awarded the rights to publish the English-language show daily newspaper for that event.

One of the first commercial applications for Styrolux HS 70, a styrene butadiene copolymer introduced by supplier BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) at the K 2007 tradeshow in Düsseldorf, Germany, are shrink films produced by Italian films processor Axial (Vedano Olona). The processor is already distributing the material to converters throughout Europe.

Any company keen to exhibit at the next edition of the world’s leading plastics industry trade shop, K 2010, now has the opportunity to make that wish known to the show’s organizers at Messe Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany). The show will be held Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2010, in that city.

Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) moved to acquire Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia) in July, accelerating its shift into the specialty market. The deal called for Dow to pay $78/share, representing a 47.9% premium on Rohm and Haas’s 60-day average share price, and Dow was supposed to finance the deal with $3 billion in equity from Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway and $1 billion from its partner, the Kuwait Investment Authority, with which it was to form a joint venture for its basic materials business. On Dec.