06-06-2007
QUADRANT EPP LEGT DE LAT HOOG MET NIEUWE HALFFABRIKATEN VOOR DICHTINGEN EN LAGERS MET LAGE WRIJVINGSCOËFFICIËNT EN HOGE SLIJTWEERSTAND
Tielt, België – juni 2007 – Halffabrikatenproducent Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) heeft zijn Fluorosint® productlijn van hoogwaardige PTFE-halffabrikaten, uitgebreid met een productklasse die geschikt is voor gebruik onder extreme omstandigheden, en bij temperaturen variërend van -240°C tot +260°C.
06-06-2007
COMPOSIET SANDWICHPANELEN IDEALE OPLOSSING VOOR BEKISTING-SYSTEMEN
LENZBURG, ZWITZERLAND – juni 2007 – Triplex vervangen door hoogwaardige composieten, dat lijkt op het eerste gezicht een voorbeeld van technologische ontwikkeling die te ver is doorgevoerd. Toch ziet het ernaar uit dat een nieuw bekistingproduct van het Duitse bedrijf Hünnebeck, één van 's werelds toonaangevende leveranciers van bekistingen en steigermaterialen, een duidelijke ommekeer binnen de industrie teweeg zal brengen.
06-06-2007
INJECTION MOULDED PASSENGER AIRBAG HOUSING FROM QUADRANT CMS SAVES WEIGHT AND COST
TIELT, BELGIUM – June, 2007 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) of Tielt, Belgium, working in close co-operation with Tier-1 automotive supplier Autoliv, has developed a new, polyamide passenger airbag housing for use in vehicles based on the Volkswagen Golf platform. The housing, moulded from impact-modified polyamide 6 with 40 percent glass-fibre reinforcement, is just under half the weight of the original metal counterpart and provides considerable cost-of-manufacture savings. The part is being installed in vehicles such as the VW Golf, Audi A3, Seat Leon and Skoda Fabia since early 2007.
06-06-2007
VORWERK GROUP PARTNERS WITH QUADRANT CMS FOR FUNCTIONALLY AESTHETIC VACUUM HOSE MODULE
TIELT, BELGIUM – June, 2007 – True to its vision of delivering a combination of product development, production and assembly from a single source, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) in Tielt, Belgium, has partnered German vacuum cleaner manufacturer Vorwerk in the design and manufacture of a new polymer-based vacuum hose module. The part, included on Vorwerk’s new “Tiger” vacuum cleaner which was launched globally in early 2007, delivers improvements in terms of functionality, handling and aesthetics.
06-06-2007
CHEMTURA APPOINTS RICK BEITEL VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL SALES, PERFORMANCE SPECIALTIES
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) has named Rick Beitel Vice President of Global Sales, Performance Specialties. In this position, Beitel is responsible for sales growth for those businesses comprising the Performance Specialties division, including: Transportation & Industrial Lubricants & Greases, Urethane Products, Optical Monomers, Organicometallic Catalysts & Compounds, and Fluorines. Prior to this, as Vice President of Sales Excellence, he worked to achieve key growth objectives for Chemtura’s global sales organization.
Pre-K Event 05-06-2007
Arkema at K 2007 Exhibition – Hall 6 / Stand C57
Arkema will be exhibiting at the K2007 trade fair with all its plastics activities: PVC, PMMA, Technical Polymers, and Functional Additives. K2007 will give Arkema the opportunity to showcase new applications in PMMA, in particular for flat television screens, and new developments in Technical Polymers, in particular in Rilsan® and Pebax® product ranges.
05-06-2007
GE Plastics Unveils Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands — June 5, 2007 — GE Plastics today opened its first Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence here. The new facility is aimed at helping customers around the world design, create, and process innovative auto glazing applications using GE’s environmentally progressive Lexan* GLX polycarbonate (PC) resins and other engineered materials. As one of the company’s Global Application Technology (GApT) centers, the Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence features equipment and technologies from Krauss Maffei and Summerer Technologies.
