20-01-2005
GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORPORATION COMPLETES PHASE-OUT OF TWO FLAME RETARDANTS
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (NYSE:GLK) today confirmed that it voluntarily stopped production of penta- and octa- polybrominated diphenyl ether on December 31, 2004. The move, first announced by the company in November 2003, comes years ahead of legislative mandates and is a direct result of the company’s development of an alternative flame retardant called Firemaster® 550. An assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that the alternative flame retardant has a favorable environmental profile compared to penta-BDE. Customers have readily embraced Firemaster® 550 in the marketplace as the only penta-BDE alternative that simultaneously meets performance, fire-safety, and environmental standards.
18-01-2005
N-SPEC® 50, prodotto di Brenntag per la pulizia di impianti e pipeline, ha ottenuto la classificazione di “yellow chemical” per le applicazioni off-shore
N-SPEC® 50, un disperdente/solvente sviluppato da Brenntag Oil & Gas, è stato recentemente testato in Scandinavia per verificarne la tossicità verso gli organismi acquatici, la biodegradabilità ed la bioaccumulabilità negli ambienti marini. Questi test sono universalmente accettati nei Paesi del Mare del Nord e sono raccomandati dalle linee guida “OSPAR”. Sulla base dei risultati di questi test, N-Spec®50 è classificato in Normandia come “yellow chemical”, il che significa che è un prodotto chimico accettabile per le applicazioni “off-shore” (classificazioni: “green” e “yellow” = accettati; “red” = da sostituire dopo un certo periodo di tempo; “black” = utilizzo non consentito). In confronto ad altri disperdenti/solventi quali xilene, gasolio, toluene, N-Spec®50 è un alternativa preferita grazie alle migliori proprietà ambientali.
Press Kit 17 January - 22 January 200514-01-2005
GE Advanced Materials Names Greg Adams to Head Automotive Business; John Carrington to Top Marketing Position
BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS – Effective Jan. 1, Greg Adams has been named general manager of GE Advanced Materials, Automotive, reporting to John Krenicki, president and chief executive officer of GE Advanced Materials. Previously Adams served as general manager of marketing for GE Advanced Materials, Plastics.
13-01-2005
Hyperform® hyper nucleating agent increases productivity during manufacture of garden furniture
Hartman Groep, a leading European manufacturer of garden furniture, increased its output of structural foam table tops with a substantial number over an eight-week period during the summer as a result of incorporating Milliken’s Hyperform® HPN-68L hyper nucleating agent into its polypropylene compound formulation. The capacity increase was a mayor rise in productivity.
11-01-2005
Univar warns of tight supply of its Dynapak® PIB materials
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10-01-2005
Lyondell’s New Polypropylene-Ethylene Resins Deliver Clarity for Injection and Blow Moulding Applications
HOUSTON and Spartanburg, S.C., January 10, 2005 — Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE:LYO) today announced that its Equistar Chemicals business has introduced two new resins – PP30HF01 and PP33HF04 polypropylene-ethylene copolymer resins – which feature Milliken Chemical’s Millad® 3988 clarifying agent.
10-01-2005
GE’s LEXAN* HPS7 Resin helps give new wrist fixation device exceptional strength, light weight, and autoclave performance
Individuals unfortunate enough to have suffered a Colles Fracture – a common fracture at the wrist joint due to a fall on an outstretched hand – or other injury requiring wrist distraction may have been surprised to learn how much conventional wrist fixation devices can resemble something out of the dark ages. Now, however, cutting-edge polycarbonate (PC) technology from GE Advanced Materials has helped one healthcare OEM pioneer a new clear, lightweight, radiolucent wrist fixation system for modern times. In fact, the GE resin pushes the performance envelope in several important directions and represents a major step forward in advanced healthcare application design.
