Roquette and Rhodia Acetow have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop new plant-based polymers. The JDA will enable both companies to leverage synergies bringing together respective competencies in the field of plant-based polymer che...
Thiourea based accelerators, of which ETU is the most common, are used for more than 80 years in the vulcanization of polychloroprene rubber as they facilitate the rubber cure system by speeding up the creation of molecular cross links, decreasing pr...
Ghent, Belgium - French automotive plastics component producer Mecaplast says it can make significant weight reductions in injection moulded TPO parts by partially replacing talc filler with Hyperform® HPR-803i high performance reinforcing agent ...
Chomarat will give the 2012 JEC Europe a preview of the latest technical advances and the first parts obtained with C-PLY™ Bi-Angle, which makes use of innovative fibre orientations within the composite.
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Ulsan, Korea - February 16, 2012 - At the international VDI Conference "Plastics In Automotive Engineering" in Mannheim, Germany (March 21 - 22), Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd., the global number two supplier of polymer additives, will demonstrate it is...
Facility owners seeking floor coatings that can meet tough performance requirements as well as growing sustainability targets are finding solutions from DSM. The global life & material sciences leader has been increasingly focusing its innovation ef...
Muttenz, February 6, 2012 - Clariant, a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals, is putting the focus firmly on products and innovation to enhance its package of support for the crop protection industry. With the promise to bring "a new perspe...
WindFloat | Hempel, the world-leading coatings supplier, is taking part in a project to performance test an offshore corrosion protection system on WindFloat, a semi-submersible floating structure for offshore wind turbines that has been deployed wit...
Flexible seal rings from ATO S.r.L., Milan, Italy, a leading compression molder of high-performance semi-finished goods, are made of KetaSpire® polyetheretherketone (PEEK) resin, manufactured by Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC, for its excepti...
Royal DSM, the global Life and Material Sciences company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its US-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotechnologia (Ebrabiotech) of Brazil for the launch of a new li...
DOBEL | Measuring gloss on smooth, normally painted but also sometimes film-laminated steel has been available for many years. Normally, a gloss-metre is then used, measuring with an angle of 60º ensuring that a certain tolerance is achieved.
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Borealis and Borouge will highlight its latest developments in polyolefins across a broad range of applications and end-user industries at Interplastica 2012, which will be held in Moscow, Russia, from January 24-27.
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BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands - December 15, 2011 - Because protective gear is only effective when workers use it, 3M™ has designed a new exceptionally comfortable, ergonomic line of hardhats and helmets made with SABIC''s Innovative Plastics...