China: Clariant – plastics masterbatch
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Weight
- 64 KB
- Volume
- 2009
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0969-6210
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✦ Synopsis
times, while continuing to service all our customers."
According to the local newspapers, Cristal's pigment inventories at Stallingborough had mounted to unacceptably high levels in December 2008, as a result of a 35% fall in European TiO 2 demand, compared against December 2007. Altogether, 360 out of the 400 workers at the Stallingborough site will be affected by the production curtailment. Contract salaries will be reduced by up to 20%, with the fall in working hours. At Hawkins Point, more than 75 out of the 140 hourly-paid employees will be laid-off.
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