19.05.2005
KONSTRUKTIONS- UND FORMENBAU-UNTERNEHMEN QUADRANT CMS WÄHLT AKULON® ULTRAFLOW® FÜR HOCHFESTE SOLARIUMSCHARNIERE
Quadrant CMS, ein führendes europäisches Unternehmen für Konstruktion, Verarbeitung, Montage und Logistik mit Stammsitz in Belgien, hat sich beim Spritzgießen der Scharniereinheiten eines Ganzkörper-Heimsolariums von Philips für Akulon® UltraFlow® K FG12 entschieden, ein Polyamid 6 (PA6) von DSM Engineering Plastics. Gegenüber dem glasfasergefüllten PA6, das vorher für diese Anwendung eingesetzt wurde, erschließt das neue Material signifikant kürzere Zykluszeiten, bessere Oberflächenqualität und eine größere Palette von Farbeinstellungen.
19.05.2005
Milliken’s ClearTint® chosen by Bormioli Rocco for new transparent PP coloured closures
Milliken’s ClearTint® polymeric colourants for polypropylene (PP), are bringing a differentiating, competitive advantage to packaging in the beverage industry. ClearTint technology is showing how beverage caps, traditionally considered a commodity element, can become an added-value part of bottle aesthetics by replicating either beverage colour or brand colour in transparent PP as an enhancement of consumer appeal and brand image.
13.05.2005
Upgraded Web-based support underlines Distrupol’s customer service orientation
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.
13.05.2005
Milliken & Company to Exhibit at ChinaPlas 2005
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.
13.05.2005
Univar UK awarded Supplier of the Year by 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.
12.05.2005
GE’s New Anti-Static, Impact-Resistant LNP* Stat-Loy* Compounds Help Enhance Security for Plasmon UDO™ Optical Media
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.
12.05.2005
Borealis reports steadily improving results in first quarter 2005
Borealis 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.
12.05.2005
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.
