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KRAIBURG TPE compounds provide a solid footing for the „Gorillapod“ made by Joby

02.06.2009 - Flexible photography from almost any perspective. This is Joby’s promise to digital camera users. The supple "Gorillapod" (Photo) tripod turns that promise into reality. Joby, a US company, works with manufacturers in China and utilizes compounds formulated by KRAIBURG TPE (www.kraiburg-tpe.com). The...

Georg Kaufmann Formenbau: Decorative passenger compartment trim with integrated heating systems

02.06.2009 - For the first time in the history of injection moulded passenger compartment components, electrical heating systems can now be integrally moulded with the component. The injection moulding system is based on the use of decorative materials that are provided on their reverse sides with a special electrically...

Dow Europe GmbH Announces Price Increase for Polyethylene Resins and Styrenic Copolymers Products

29.05.2009 - Dow Europe GmbH (www.dow.com) is announcing a price increase across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions for polyethylene (PE) resins, based on the continued raw material cost developments that the company is experiencing and the need to restore its margins. Effective June 1,...

Gneuss: New Mercury-Free Melt Pressure Transducers with High Precision Measurement

29.05.2009 - Melt Pressure transducers play a key role in the control of extrusion processes as in addition to being used as a control value for the extruder and melt pump drives, the melt pressure indicates process disturbances which can lead to production interruptions. The new Gneuss (www.gneuss.com) Melt Pressure...

Borealis increases polyethylene and polypropylene prices

28.05.2009 - Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces that it will increase all polyethylene and polypropylene prices by EUR 60/tonne as of June 1, 2009. "This increase is necessary to preserve sustainable margins and to ensure our innovation...

Balda AG repays 6.5 million euros of current liabilities

27.05.2009 - Balda AG (www.balda.de), listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, in the month of May repaid liabilities amounting to in sum 6.5 million euros. Of these, 2.5 million euros went to a bond creditor outside the group of consortium banks. An additional 4.0 million euros were paid back...

DuPont™ Surlyn® lends the power of water to the new Hugo Boss fragrance

27.05.2009 - Men who use “Boss Pure” (Photo) apply themselves with a woody aquatic fragrance inspired by the crash and thunder of falling water. The bottle represents a modern twist on the urban water wall. It has a rugged square shape with flat surfaces and pronounced edges, uniting the transparency of glass with...

DSM quadruples production capacity for Stanyl ForTII

26.05.2009 - Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, recently announced that it will quadruple production capacity for Stanyl® ForTii™ in order to meet market demand for this new polymer, which is used in electronics and other applications. Stanyl...

Kreyenborg: Infrared Drying Technology – New impulses at the NPE 2009

26.05.2009 - Even two premieres of different kind can be announced by KREYENBORG Plant Technology (www.kreyenborg.de, www.kreyenborg-group.de) of Senden on occasion of the NPE 2009 in Chicago. On the one hand the infrared drying technology with more than 50 machines being world-wide in operation has been advanced...

Herbold Meckesheim: Granulator for a big coextrusion blow-moulding machine

22.05.2009 - The GRAF company (www.graf-online.de) based at Teningen has already last year commissioned a coextrusion blow-moulding machine manufacturing products for rainwater use with a volume of up to 3000 l. The Graf company has a large product range all about water management and is the greatest German manufacturer...

BASF: Specialty foam as decorative and acoustic insulation in Spanish design hotel

22.05.2009 - At the newly built Barceló Raval design hotel in Barcelona, Spain, sound absorbers made from Basotect® are improving the room acoustics. The lobby of the ten-story, four-star hotel has around 2200 ceiling baffles (Photo) which are made from BASF´s (www.basf.com) flexible melamine resin foam and ensure...

DSM: Stanyl Grade TE250F6 offers added value for stator in Pierburg Electric Waterpump

22.05.2009 - PVS-Kunststofftechnik, a company specializing in overmolded insulation and other precision parts such as cooling fans for the electronic industry, has used Stanyl® PA46 (www.dsmep.com) for the stator (Photo) of the latest electric waterpump produced by Pierburg, the world’s first series-production supplier...

INEOS Olefins and Polymers to increase prices of its HDPE pipe grades in June

20.05.2009 - INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe (www.ineos.com) has announced plans to increase prices for HDPE pipe grades by EUR 70 per tonne, in addition to movements in monthly ethylene pricing. New prices for PE80, PE100 and PEX grades are to come into effect on June 1st. Prices of HDPE pipe grades have...

Bayer MaterialScience and Nano Terra, Inc. announce collaboration in surface engineering on films

20.05.2009 - Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.com), a global leader in high-value polymers, announced today an alliance with Nano Terra Inc., a leading surface engineering and nanotechnology co-development company. Nano Terra will apply its unique surface engineering expertise to Bayer’s materials...

Sumitomo-Demag: New all-electric injection moulding machine including direct drive technology

18.05.2009 - The Japanese/German manufacturer of injection moulding machines Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH (www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu), with its European headquarters in Schwaig/Germany, is about to launch its IntElect all-electric injection moulding machine of the new "Smart" configuration level....

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