Press Kit 9 Nov 2007
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY LICENSES ITS OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMER TECHNOLOGY TO GLS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TPES
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – Oct. 24, 2007 – GLS Corp., a global leader in the development, manufacture, and supply of high-performance, custom-formulated thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), today announced that - through a licensed agreement with The Dow Chemical Company - it has been granted rights to provide processors with TPEs incorporating the benefits of OBCs. GLS will globally market the new co-branded OBC-based TPEs under the GLS brand, DYNALLOY® OBC Compounds, and with The Dow Chemical Company’s tag line “Powered by INFUSE™ olefin block copolymers.” In addition to six standard grades of DYNALLOY® OBC Compounds, launched here today at Kunstoffe 2007 (K 2007), GLS will offer customers the ability to customize OBC-based TPEs to achieve specific performance properties.
9 Nov 2007
GLS INTRODUCES NEW FAMILY OF TPES BASED ON THE DOW CHEMICAL CO.’S OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMER TECHNOLOGY
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – Oct. 24, 2007 – Here at Kunstoffe 2007, Germany, GLS Corp., a global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of high-performance, custom-formulated thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), today introduced a new family of TPEs based on INFUSE™ olefin block copolymers (OBC) from The Dow Chemical Company. The new DYNALLOY® OBC injection-molding and blow-molding grades allow GLS to offer customers a broad array of standard and customized TPE alloys for a wide range of applications. With the new DYNALLOY line, GLS has expanded the existing property and application range of OBC technology with exceptional softness, unique feels, a wider range of flow characteristics in injection molding, and introduced a new blow-moldable grade range. DYNALLOY OBCs offer a silky soft touch feel, excellent colorability, isotropic shrinkage, and flow characteristics enabling use in complex molds with long flow paths.
8 Nov 2007
THE CHEMTURA TEAM LAUNCHES NEW ADIPRENE® K ONE-COMPONENT URETHANE SYSTEMS
The Chemtura Team Launches New Adiprene® K One-Component Urethane Systems at UTECH (shown here), API, Rubber Expo and the K-Show. Interest was at a record high at the trade shows, based on inquiries. New Adiprene K is a time/cost-saving one-component urethane system. It ends worries about accurate weighing and mixing, since Chemtura fixes the stoichiometry at its plant. It works for the creation of big or small parts and complex geometries.
7 Nov 2007
BPC Chemical Technologies signed an exclusive distribution agreement of Songwon polymer stabilizers
Moscow, Russia – November 7, 2007 – BPC Chemical Technologies has been appointed as the exclusive distributor for Songwon products in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and CIS countries.
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Smart® pioneers first full PP body panels
Smart® fortwo has become the first commercialised car to have full body panels manufactured from polypropylene (PP). Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has developed Daplen™ ED230HP, a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) compound, for this pioneering development to meet the cost-effective production targets and aesthetic, safety and environmental requirements of the latest Smart fortwo vehicle.
6 Nov 2007
Milliken Nucleation Innovation Gives Polyolefins A Boost
Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, is continuing to expand the performance horizons of polyolefins with its pioneering nucleation technology. To be introduced to a broad audience for the first time at K 2007, Hyperform® HPN-20E makes cost-effective property modification of polyethylene (PE) a first-time reality for converters, resin and master batch producers, while providing a versatile, one-stop optimising solution for polypropylene (PP).
