10 Jan 2006
GE Joins Forces with ASC Incorporated to Help Offer New Lifestyle Choices to Automotive Consumers with ‘Sunvertibles’
BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — January 10, 2006 — At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) here, GE - Plastics announced a new collaboration with specialty-vehicle company ASC Incorporated, showcasing the first results of a joint effort to give car buyers unique and exciting factory-installed options to suit their lifestyles. ASC’s patent-pending, bi-directional InfiniVu™ “open-air” sliding-roof system, which is incorporated into a prototype minivan dubbed the ASC TriLite, features GE’s Lexan* GLX polycarbonate (PC) resin for style, safety, and weight savings. This application marks the first time, worldwide, this GE technology has been showcased in a panoramic automotive roof system – a technology whose advantages include design flexibility to promote creativity and part consolidation; light weight to boost fuel economy; and impact resistance for occupant safety. The new collaboration between GE and ASC, announced today, offers ASC additional cutting-edge innovations for its high-image specialty vehicles as well as its more mainstream vehicle systems, such as open-air roof systems.
10 Jan 2006
Borealis reduces waste with new transparent, thin wall packaging solution
Borealis has launched a new solution for transparent, thin wall packaging which meets the demands for improved product visibility, lighter weight but stronger packaging, better stackability and integrated features for convenience and tamper-proof solutions. The RJ470MO solution offers the well-established properties of polypropylene (PP) random copolymers, such as stiffness, impact performance and low density and a new route to greater productivity. The solution delivers clear benefits to retailers and consumers in packaging for dairy, confectionary and convenience food as well as for electronics and cosmetics.
5 Jan 2006
英邁艾默生聯合巡展，英邁凸顯行業分銷能力
中國上海 – 2006年1月6日 – 近日，英邁剛剛完成其與艾默生聯合舉行的第三場巡展。同上兩場在北京和廣州舉行的一樣，此次在成都的巡展同樣大獲成功。通過這一大型市場活動，英邁向業界展示出其行業分銷能力。
5 Jan 2006
TYCO AMP CHANGES FROM LCP TO STANYL® HIGH FLOW PA46 FOR PC CARD HEADER, LOWERS COSTS & REDUCES WARPAGE
Electronics manufacturer Tyco Amp Den Bosch has changed the material it uses for moulding PCMCIA (PC card) header from liquid crystal polymer (LCP) to Stanyl® polyamide 4,6 (PA46), gaining overall cost savings, better mechanical properties, and very low warpage. Stanyl grade 46HF 5040, a high-flow formulation, easily meets the flow properties of LCP, allowing ready moulding of the tiny features in the header while enhancing much needed mechanical properties.
5 Jan 2006
Distrupol delivers DSM’s Sarlink® TPV resin for tough Audi under-bonnet application
As a leading European polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, Distrupol plays an active role in supporting moulders and OEMs through all stages of application development. A demonstration of this has been its successful partnering with UK automotive moulder, P&D Manufacturing in the development of an under- bonnet heat shield in thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) resin for the Audi A4 and Audi A6 models.
4 Jan 2006
Rhodia Polyamide announces price rise for its STABAMID® Polyamide 66 resins to address unprecedented level of energy and raw materials costs
Lyon, France, January 4, 2006 – Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price increase for its STABAMID® Polyamide 66, effective immediately. STABAMID® prices will rise in Europe by 100 € / MT and in Asia by 120 USD / MT. This necessary price adjustment results from the unprecedented high level of costs for energy, particularly gas, as well as for raw materials such as Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac.
4 Jan 2006
Rhodia Polyamide announces price increase for Adipic Acid to counterbalance steep rise in energy (gas) and raw material costs (Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac)
Lyon, France, January 4, 2006 – Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price rise for Adipic Acid effective immediately. The new price reflects an increase of 130 € / MT in Europe and 150 USD / MT in Asia. Underlying this need for price adjustment is the unprecedented rise in the costs of energy, particularly gas, and raw materials such as Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac.
3 Jan 2006
DSM Engineering Plastics launches Stanyl® 46SF5030 for high end connector applications
DSM Engineering Plastics has introduced a new grade to the Stanyl Polyamide 46 global portfolio. Designated Stanyl 46SF5030, the new grade marks the beginning of a new series - Stanyl Super Flow - developed especially for the connector industry as DSM’s response to the requirements of new generation connectors and it further expands on DSM’s current comprehensive product offerings for the connector market.
