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Tuesday 3 December 2019
Sustainability and digitalization: Q&A with Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann
Germany-based Covestro, spun off from the Bayer Group in September 2015, is now among the world's leading makers of premium polymers with 30 production bases and around 16,000 employees...
Monday 30 April 2018
Covestro expanding polycarbonate production capacity in Shanghai
Polymer and high-tech materials supplier Covestro is expanding its polycarbonate capacity at its production base in Shanghai to 600,000 metric tons a year by 2019 to meet the strong...
Thursday 13 January 2011
Price of optical disk raw material starts dropping in 4Q10
International pricing for optical-grade polycarbonate and tetrafluoro-propanol (TFP), which are used in optical discs, started seeing a drop in the fourth quarter of 2010, and with...
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Taiwan optical disc makers feel pressure from rising material costs
International prices for optical-grade polycarbonate (PC), a main constituent of optical discs, have risen from US$2.2-2.3/kg around the end of 2009 to US$2.7-2.8/kg currently, while...
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Polycarbonate prices climb to high of NT$100/kg
Quotes for polycarbonate, a key material for making optical discs, have continually hiked from NT$70 (US$2.12)/kg in early 2010 to over NT$100/kg, the highest ever on record, according...
Thursday 15 April 2010
CMC hikes prices for optical discs by 10%
CMC Magnetics, the largest Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, has upward adjusted its quotes for the second quarter of 2010 by 10% to reflect increased polycarbonate costs,...
Monday 1 February 2010
Optical disc prices may rise due to increased costs of polycarbonate
Procurement prices for polycarbonate, a key material to make blank optical discs, have been rising for a while, but Taiwan-based disc makers have not yet hiked their quotes, according...
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Polycarbonate price drops boost optical disc makers' margins, says newspaper
International prices of optical-grade polycarbonate (PC) have further slipped from US$2.5/kg in November 2008 to about US$2.0/kg currently, and consequently Taiwan-based makers of...
Friday 28 November 2008
Optical disc makers benefit from polycarbonate price drops
International prices of optical-grade polycarbonate (PC) have dropped by 11-17% from US$2.8-2.9/kg in the third quarter of 2008 to US$2.4-2.5/kg in the fourth quarter due to falls...
Thursday 19 June 2008
Taiwan optical disc makers face hike in polycarbonate costs
While the third quarter of each year is traditionally an off-peak period for Taiwan-based blank CD-R and DVD+R/-R disc makers, the third quarter of 2008 will potentially see makers...