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SABIC: Plastic fenders for new Ford Kuga

16.12.2008 - In order to help automotive OEMs meet key environmental challenges such as fuel economy and emission targets, high-performance Noryl GTX* resins from SABIC Innovative Plastics (www.sabic-ip.com) are moving from Ford concept vehicles into series production. The all-new Ford Kuga (Photo), Ford’s first...

Bayer MaterialScience: New brand „BayVision“ for polycarbonate glazing in automotive engineering

15.12.2008 - Daimler AG (www.daimler.com) and Bayer MaterialScience AG (www.bayermaterialscience.com) are to cooperate more intensively in the future on the development of polycarbonate (PC) automotive glazing. As part of the expertise offered by Bayer MaterialScience under its “BayVision” brand, Daimler will investigate...

Bayer MaterialScience: FSK's prize for wrinkle-free polyurethane skin for service robots

12.12.2008 - Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation (IPA), Bayer MaterialScience AG (www.bayermaterialscience.de) has been awarded the “Polyurethanes 2008” prize for innovation by the Fachverband Schaumkunststoffe und Polyurethane e.V. (Association for Foamed Plastics and...

KRAIBURG TPE: TPE compound to manufacture three-component plastic pillar cappings

12.12.2008 - When selecting the materials used to manufacture its three-component plastic pillar cappings, DURA Automotive Systems specified a compound made by KRAIBURG TPE (www.kraiburg-tpe.com). One of the three resins making up the cappings, this compound, blended by the thermoplastic elastomers specialists in...

Dupont: Cooperation with TU Chemnitz - Enhanced properties for polymer-based conveyor belts used in materials handling

12.12.2008 - DuPont Engineering Polymers (www.dupont.com) and the materials handling department of the Technical University of Chemnitz (www.tu-chemnitz.de) have agreed a three-year joint development program which will commence in October 2008. Its objective is to develop three-dimensionally flexible conveyor belts,...

Herbold Meckesheim: Small shredder for big parts

11.12.2008 - Herbold Meckesheim GmbH (www.herbold.com) has developed a new single-shaft shredder HR 102 P (Photo) with minimal space requirement to treat bulky hollow bodies. Possible applications are barrels up to 220 l (55 gallons); purgings, tops and tails occurring during production can also be treated. Another...

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...

Conair closes its UK facility, with sales and support to operate from its US headquarters

10.12.2008 - The Board of Directors of Conair Europe Limited (www.conairgroup.com) decided recently to place Conair Europe Limited into voluntary liquidation. Conair will support its customers and agents in the UK and throughout Europe directly from its headquarters in the United States.

Wittmann Battenfeld equips old machines to meet new challenges

09.12.2008 - Wittmann Battenfeld (www.wittmann-battenfeld.com) machines are often in use for decades and remain in perfect mechanical condition even after heavy stress. Control system upgrades can be used to refit aging control systems. This helps the customer avoid the continuously increasing costs of spare parts...

Coperion: Open House – ,Compounding & Extrusion‘

08.12.2008 - Compounds and masterbatches will be the main topic of the Coperion Open House (www.coperion.com) in Stuttgart/Germany on January 28 and 29, 2009. The special highlights of the event will be: • state-of-the-art processing technology with specific reference to the ZSK MEGAcompounder PLUS high-performance...

Coperion invests millions in production of spare parts

05.12.2008 - Coperion (www.coperion.com) has considerably expanded its production capacity for OEM screw elements for its ZSK twin-screw extruders and invested several millions of euros in its production facilities in Europe and the USA. Set up especially for the supply of spare parts, the Competence Center Service...

Reimelt Henschel MischSysteme: New compounders for the compounding of masterbatches

05.12.2008 - Reimelt Henschel´s (www.reimelt-henschel.com) presentation at this year´s Fakuma focused on the flexible, efficient and economical compounding of masterbatches for the widest conceivable diversity of applications in the plastics processing industry. At the exhibition were shown the new compounders specially...

K.D. Feddersen: Materialdepån Norden AB to operate as K.D. Feddersen Norden AB

04.12.2008 - For Hamburg-based plastics distributor K.D. Feddersen (www.kdfeddersen.com), all the signs in Northern Europe continue to point towards expansion. As from 1 December 2008, the Swedish firm acquired at the end of 2007 (See also plasticker-News from February, 5, 2008), Materialdepån Norden AB, will be...

BASF: 40,000 REACH preregistrations submitted

04.12.2008 - The European chemicals policy REACH came into force on June 2007. The first stage is now complete with the end of the preregistration phase on 1 December. BASF (www.basf.com) submitted some 40,000 preregistrations with the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) in Helsinki by the deadline, making BASF one...

Reimelt Henschel MischSysteme: First compounder for the processing of WPC now in operation

04.12.2008 - The first compounding line (Photo) specially developed by Reimelt Henschel MischSysteme (www.reimelt-henschel.com) for the processing of highly filled wood-plastic composites (WPCs) has now gone into regular production. eco-Profil N.V., a Belgian manufacturer of special structural elements for outdoor...

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