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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...