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BASF: First industrial-scale extrusion blow-molding of Styrolux

10.12.2008 - For the first time in Europe, a machine manufacturer has demonstrated that BASF’s Styrolux® 3G 46 (www.basf.com) can be processed by extrusion blow-molding. The Kautex Maschinenbau company (www.kautex-group.com), a renowned maker of blow-molding systems, has recently produced intricately shaped bottles...

Evonik: Shanghai begins producing PMMA molding compounds

01.12.2008 - One of Evonik Industries´ (www.evonik.com) largest investment projects worldwide, amounting to €250 million, is taking shape. Just one year after the cornerstone was laid, production of molding compounds from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) for the Chinese and other Asian markets commenced in Shanghai...

BASF: Luran S in protective road barrier reflectors

24.11.2008 - The Polish company Wital has recently started using the styrene-based specialty plastic Luran® S 778T from the BASF (www.basf.de, www.luran-s.com) range for protective road barrier reflectors. In doing so it has been able to replace the steel previously used for the mountings by a steel-gray colored...

BaySystems polyurethane systems house in South China inaugurated

19.11.2008 - Bayer MaterialScience, a leading polyurethane raw materials and polyurethane systems supplier, inaugurated its new polyurethane systems house in Guangzhou, China, recently. The company now owns a global network of 30 systems houses in close proximity to its customers. With customized polyurethanes solutions,...

Bayer MaterialScience lifts force majeure in the USA for most products

18.11.2008 - Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.de) has lifted force majeure for most of the products manufactured at its facility in Baytown, Texas, United States. Effective last Friday, there are no longer any restrictions on the company’s ability to supply diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and isophorone...

Momentive: New highly transparent LSR types for automotive LED lens systems

12.11.2008 - Momentive Performance Materials (www.momentive.com) presents a new line of highly transparent liquid silicon rubber (LSR) for innovative optical applications. These new materials are characterised by their high transparency (up to 95%), low opaqueness and excellent physical stability. Therefore the...

BASF: New generation of quick connectors made by A Raymond using Ultramid T

10.11.2008 - A semi-aromatic, high-temperature resistant polyamide, Ultramid® T KR4357 G6, is being employed in a new application. The A Raymond company, an international supplier of fastening systems for the automotive industry headquartered in France, is now using this specialty (PA6/6T) from BASF (www.basf.com)...

BASF to reduce its worldwide caprolactam production

21.10.2008 - Since the end of September, BASF (www.basf.com, www.plasticsportal.eu) has reduced its worldwide production of caprolactam to about 65 percent. The reason for this measure is the high cost of raw materials and energy as well as the unsatisfactory market demand. This decision involves production at...

pp-mid: New compound - Laser produces electrically conductive structures

15.10.2008 - Global innovation in the form of a new polypropylene (PP) based compound allows injection moulded interconnect devices (MID) to be produced by an altogether new method and much more simply than before. Invented by Peter Putsch, the new compound provides the novel feature of a carbon-based conductivity...

DuPont™ Zytel® nylon used for first polymer oil pan module adopted for serial-production cars

15.10.2008 - For the first time in automotive history, an oil pan module made from a thermoplastic polymer is now used for serial-production cars. Working in close cooperation with the automotive supplier Bruss and DuPont (www.dupont.com), Daimler has achieved a genuine breakthrough by developing a modular design...

BASF: First antimicrobial BASF plastic for bacteria-free surfaces

13.10.2008 - BASF (www.basf.com, www.luran-s.com) is now offering a plastic that has the property of killing microbes. This material belongs to the specialties found in the styrene plastic product line. It goes by the name Luran® S BX 13042 and is currently the only ASA (acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate copolymer)...

DuPont Engineering Polymers announces price increases

10.10.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) announces price increases for its thermoplastic resins in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to be effective on November 1, 2008 or as contracts allow. • The price of DuPont™ Delrin® acetal resin will increase by 0.10 Euro/kg. • The price of DuPont™...

Putsch: New applications and new products

09.10.2008 - Successful mass-production applications of ELAN XP as well as two completely new products will be presented by Putsch Kunststoffe GmbH at this year´s Fakuma 2008 on the exhibition stand of its distribution partner, Ashland (Stand 3217 in Hall A3). The development of new compounds with properties obtained...

DSM increases prices of its engineering plastics in EMEA

07.10.2008 - DSM Engineering Plastics (www.dsmep.com) has announced a price increase for a number of its materials in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) regions. Effective 1 January 2009, or as contracts permit, the following increases will be implemented for all shipments. The specific increases are as follows:...

LANXESS: Pelletizing plant for EPDM rubber goes on line in Marl

02.10.2008 - Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG (www.lanxess.com) launched operation of a pelletizing plant for EPDM rubber in late September at its Marl location. For the first time, the company can now additionally manufacture this rubber grade in the form of pellets, two to three millimeters in size, in its...

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