Plastic processing expertise achieves global reach March 10, 2010 - Detroit, Mich. - DME Company and Plastic Engineering & Technical Services, Inc. (P.E.T.S.) initiated today a strategic alliance that will provide plastic injection molding customers with technologically-advanced hot runners and plastic processing expertise around the globe. The combination of P.E.T.S.'s leading-edge hot runners, plastic processing technologies, analytical molding services and DME's strong global brand, global sales structure and distribution network will deliver unprecedented support and service to molders worldwide. "The plastics processing expertise of P.E.T.S. and the global reach of DME will serve as a great resource to our customers,...
March 9, 2010 - BASF is named the most admired chemical company, according to Fortune magazine. The full results of the survey are published in the current edition, which goes on sale on today (March 8). In the 2010 list of the "World's Most Admired Companies," BASF has once again been ranked the top company in the chemical industry. Industry experts voted BASF into top position in the chemical industry in the categories of product and service quality, global competitiveness, and quality of management. In addition, for all industries, BASF is ranked number two in Germany. For the survey, Fortune...
March 9, 2010 - Konstanz, Germany - Download Brochure LLDPE is one of the most important plastics. This market is recovering well from the economic crisis: “We expect to see significant growth in sales and distribution starting in 2010“, says Oliver Kutsch, president of Ceresana Research. The market research institution has just released a new study covering this major polymer. Late start for LLDPE Linear low density polyethylene was offered in North America for the first time during the 1970s; the rest of the world was more hesitant to accept it. However, following its start-up difficulties, LLDPE became the fastest...
March 9, 2010 - London, UK - ICIS pricing, the world's leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has launched a new European Polypropylene Margin report. The weekly Margin report assesses producer cash costs and margins by modeling raw material and key variable costs, co-product credits and product yields across the business, from naphtha and PDH feedstock, through to propylene and polypropylene. It has been reported recently in an ICIS pricing Europe Polypropylene report, that demand for polypropylene will improve from the beginning of the year. Producers are optimistic about an increase of volumes but supply will be...
Material Offers Design Flexibility, Ease of Processing and Aesthetic Advantages March 9, 2010 - Kingsport, Tenn. — Eastman Chemical Company and Plaskolite, Inc., announced today that their customer Transworld Signs has introduced illuminated, rigid, thermoformed signs made with Mustang® copolyester sheet. The signs will be used at Irving Oil retail gas stations in the Canadian Maritime Provinces and the northeastern United States.Mustang copolyester sheet, made by Plaskolite and with Eastman Tritan™ copolyester, is tough, heat- and weather-resistant, and available in clear and white. Mustang sheet made with Tritan also offers differentiated performance for sign companies, designers and brand owners because...
March 9, 2010 - Pittsburgh, PA — Due to the success of its EKO-FLOR product line, Conforce International, Inc., is adapting its cs-4 module for use in trailer products worldwide. The EKO-FLOR composite flooring systems utilize a proprietary two-component polyurethane resin system based on Baydur® PUL 2500 from BaySystems that offers significant strength and lightweight properties, which translates into an extended service life for the unit. The EKO-FLOR cs-4 flooring modules, which have been well-received in the international shipping community, feature a tough, performance-extending wear layer jointly developed by Bayer MaterialScience LLC and Conforce. The Conforce team has taken the...
Conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator March 8, 2010 - Cambridge, Mass. - Most polymers — materials made of long, chain-like molecules — are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator. The new process causes the polymer to conduct heat very efficiently in just one direction, unlike metals, which conduct equally well in all directions. This may make the...
March 03, 2010 - Germany, Essen - Evonik Industries has expanded its range of compounds for high-performance cables to include bio-based VESTAMID® Terra DS. Evonik is thus responding to the rapidly growing interest in bio-based plastics, even in technically challenging fields of application. A polyamide 1010, VESTAMID® Terra DS is produced entirely from monomers obtained from castor oil. Castor oil is in turn obtained from the bean of the castor oil plant, which is used neither as food nor animal feed and whose cultivation does not compete with that of food crops. VESTAMID® Terra DS molding compounds are semicrystalline and...
March 4, 2010 - Pittsburgh, PA — SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWestTM Total Artificial Heart – the world's only FDA-, Health Canada-, and CE-approved Total Artificial Heart – needed to find the right material for a new portable driver, designed to power the Total Artificial Heart outside the hospital. Lux Aviation Engineering Corp. and Bayer MaterialScience LLC got to the heart of the matter. The result – a compact, lightweight lithium-polymer onboard battery pack designed and assembled by Lux Aviation using Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s Makroblend® EL703 polycarbonate/polyethylene terephthalate polyester (PC/PET) blend – is the driving force...
March 3, 2010 - A new 3.5 km pipe based on BorECO™ high modulus polypropylene (PP-HM) from Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, will ensure leak-free drainage performance for the runway at Germany's Hof-Plauen airport. On-going modernization connecting Hof-Plauen with international hubs for the first time in the airport’s 40 year history means traffic volumes are expected to increase by 4% per year. Efficient runway drainage is a vital element in ensuring take-off and landing safety. To reach international airport runway standards, a new 3.5 km drainage network capable of withstanding extreme aircraft forces was required...
