DSM’s Akulon® partners with Omnexus to Provide Part Designers with Innovative Ideas and Solutions Offered by Polyamide 6

DSM Engineering MaterialsDSM Engineering Plastics and Omnexus are pleased to announce that Akulon® Polyamide 6 is joining the Omnexus platform to accelerate its business development and offer Designers and parts purchasers Innovative and cost effective solutions.

Synventive will consolidate its European manufacturing operations

Synventive‘s GRAVENDEEL, THE NETHERLANDS – April 26, 2006 - Synventive Molding Solutions, leading manufacturer of hot runner systems and related components has reached an agreement with the Works council and labour union to consolidate European manufacturing into its plant in Bensheim, Germany.

FROM DELICATE TO TOUGH, ULTRA-PRECISE STANYL® PA46 GEARS HELP KEEP JOYSTEER® POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Inside this joystick housing for Joysteer®, an aid that will allow those with muscular disabilities to steer an automobile by joystick, a gear made of Stanyl® polyamide 4,6 (PA46) allows accurate encoding of how much the driver turns the joystick handle (which, while not shown here, will mount inside the silver cylindrical assembly in the center). This is then transmitted to extra-strong gears made of Stanyl® that turn the car’s steering shaft - and thus the car itself. Gears made of Stanyl® in Joysteer® depend on the high strength, low friction, and dimensional stability of the material to help ensure safe driving.Precision gears made of Stanyl®, a high-performance polyamide 46 (PA46) resin from DSM Engineering Plastics, help a new joystick-based drive-by-wire system translate a driver’s steering movements into vehicle control. Called Joysteer®, the new system was designed to enable drivers with arm muscle disabilities get behind the wheel – or in this case, joystick – and drive by themselves. Joysteer will be demonstrated at Hannover Messe 2006, 24-28 April, a leading showplace for mechanical and plant engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and the automotive sector.

Borealis combines unique, high productivity with a longer lifetime for XLPE cables

Supercure LC8205, an XLPE insulation solution for reliable, cost-efficient electricity supplyBorealis is adding another grade to its SupercureTM high productivity energy cable compound product portfolio by offering a crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation solution for long-term performance cables. The first of its kind, Supercure LC8205 combines water tree retardant properties with faster crosslinking, ensuring longevity of the cable and quick production runs benefiting both cable makers and power distributors.

ARNITEL® EL250, SOFTEST COPE/TPE-E, GAINS GROUND IN OVERMOULDING APPLICATIONS FROM SOFT GRIPS TO HIGH-TOUCH CAR INTERIORS

Arnitel® EL250 is well suited for soft touch components in consumer electronics, mobile telephones, domestic appliances, kitchen tools, pencil grips, personal care, automotive interior applications and the like.Arnitel® EL250 thermoplastic polyether elastomer (TPE-E or copolyester ether elastomer, COPE), at 25 Shore D the softest available thermoplastic elastomer, has revealed itself as an important new material for applications requiring soft touch, pleasant hand feel or non-slip overmoulding. Arnitel EL250 uniquely combines both COPE performance with a softness that matches ultra-soft, but performance-challenged materials

皮爾磁安全速度監控器榮獲自動化領域“年度新品獎”

PLZ中國上海 – 2006年2月13日 近日,皮爾磁( Pilz )的PNOZ ms1p安全速度監控器在“2005中國自動化產業世紀行”評選活動中榮獲年度新品獎。

Borealis to strengthen its innovation capability

Borealiso Linz, Austria to be centre of Borealis Group’s international research activities in cooperation with Upper Austrian government and research facilities