Upgraded Web-based support underlines Distrupol’s customer service orientation

Distrupol has redesigned, revitalised and re-launched its Web site www.distrupol.com with more content, more functionality and more user-value. Distrupol, a member company of Univar and a leading European polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, has redesigned, revitalised and re-launched its Web site (www.distrupol.com) with more content, more functionality and more user-value.

Milliken & Company to Exhibit at ChinaPlas 2005

Milliken & Company The United States based market leader in additives for plastics Milliken & Company recently announced their participation at Chinaplas 2005, the largest plastics & rubber industry trade show in China, which will be held in Guangzhou from June 21st- 24th. Milliken will use this important trade platform to showcase their product range and highlight key new products for the Chinese market such as their Millad® 3988 clarifying agent for polypropylene (PP) and Hyperform® HPN-68L nucleating agent.

Univar UK awarded Supplier of the Year by U-POL

U-POL, an international manufacturer and marketer of automotive refinish products, has given its 2004 Premier Supplier award to Univar UK’s Performance Chemicals business unit. 
(Photo: U-pol) 13 May, 2005 – U-POL, an international manufacturer and marketer of automotive refinish products, has given its 2004 Premier Supplier award to Univar UK’s Performance Chemicals business unit, based in Cheadle, Manchester.

GE’s New Anti-Static, Impact-Resistant LNP* Stat-Loy* Compounds Help Enhance Security for Plasmon UDO™ Optical Media

GE’s LNP* Stat-Loy* D Series Compounds Form the Shells of Plasmon’s UDO™ Media

Plasmon, a market leader for professional data archival solutions, designed its cutting-edge UDO™ (Ultra Density Optical) media to be a highly secure archival storage medium for its customers’ valuable electronic data. Part of that security arises from Plasmon’s use of new D Series LNP* Stat-Loy* resins from GE Advanced Materials. Used to form the shell of Plasmon’s SLMD2005 UDO media, the Lexan* resin-based LNP compounds contribute an excellent balance of impact performance and resistance to static charge build-up. The new GE compounds are also good potential candidates for applications such as high-density media, internal hard disk parts, and air duct housings. BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — May 12, 2005 — Plasmon, a market leader for professional data archival solutions, designed its cutting-edge UDO™ (Ultra Density Optical) media to be a highly secure archival storage medium for its customers’ valuable electronic data. Part of that security solution stems from Plasmon’s use of new D Series LNP* Stat-Loy* resins from GE Advanced Materials. Used to form the shell of Plasmon’s SLMD2005 UDO media, the Lexan* resin-based LNP compounds contribute an excellent balance of impact performance and resistance to static build-up.

Borealis reports steadily improving results in first quarter 2005

BorealisBorealis continues to build on the successful implementation of its value creation strategy posting an operating profit of EUR 110 million for the first quarter of 2005. This compares favourably to the EUR 56 million achieved in the same quarter last year.

Milliken Expands R&D Center Resources For Clarified PP Through Addition of Sidel Technology

Continuing its research and development efforts in support of the expansion of Injection Stretch Blow Molded Clarified Polypropylene (ISBM cPP), Milliken Chemical has recently added a Sidel, Series 2, SBO4 machine to its research and development center in Spartanburg, S.C. Continuing its research and development efforts in support of the expansion of Injection Stretch Blow Molded Clarified Polypropylene (ISBM cPP), Milliken Chemical has recently added a Sidel, Series 2, SBO4 machine to its research and development center in Spartanburg, S.C.

Nanogel® Transparent Aerogel Daylighting Panels Successful in First European Installation

Daylight performance

The planning documents specified a value of 0.03 - 0.05, or 3-5%, for the daylight quotient parameter. This is usually difficult to achieve on a longitudinal elevation in a sports hall with normal fenestration. In practice, and despite the occupied area of the Buchwiesen sports hall being below ground level, the daylight quotient was met over the hall’s complete area. It was even exceeded a little in the central area of the hall. EMPA tests and other research measuring the first European installation of Nanogel® translucent aerogel daylighting panels in a school sports hall in Buchwiesen, Zurich confirmed the data initially estimated by architect Arnold Amsler. The sports hall installation demonstrates even light distribution with consistent brightness and ability to maintain comfortable climatic conditions in summer and winter.

New German-language Magazine for Medical Device Manufacturers Announced

DeviceMedWIESBADEN, GERMANY, May 10, 2005 — Access Communications Deutschland has announced that in June 2005 it will officially launch DeviceMed, a new German-language trade magazine to serve the manufacturers of medical devices. The magazine will be published ten times a year and distributed to qualified professionals of the medical device manufacturing industry within Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German bordering countries with German-speaking populations.