New Bormod achieves step change in food packaging productivity

Bormod achieves a weight reduction of up to 20%In response to the needs of the food packaging industry for more efficient and higher quality packaging, Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has launched Bormod™ BJ368MO. This new injection moulding polypropylene (PP) grade offers sturdy performance, faster productivity and light weight properties. The new solution can be used to produce consumer food containers for products such as refrigerated salads, margarines, and fresh and frozen dairy products.

Borealis announces EUR 225 million net profit for third quarter

Borealis• Operating profit growth in Q3, 29% above the same period in 2006

Belden Press Kit

BeldenPress Kit

THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY LICENSES ITS OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMER TECHNOLOGY TO GLS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TPES

Dynalloy OBCs were introduced by (left to right) Luis Cirihal, Dow Manager for Performance Elastomers and Plastomers, George Biltz, Dow Specialty Plastics and Elastomers Group President, Daniel Dague, GLS President, and Walt Ripple, GLS Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing.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.

GLS INTRODUCES NEW FAMILY OF TPES BASED ON THE DOW CHEMICAL CO.’S OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMER TECHNOLOGY

DYNALLOY® OBC injection-molding and blow-molding TPE grades from GLS Corp. - which are based on INFUSE™ olefin block copolymers and technology licensed from The Dow Chemical Company - offer exceptional softness, a silky feel and a wide range of flow characteristics. Potential applications for standard and custom grades encompass medical, consumer goods, tools, appliances, sporting goods and infant care. 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.

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.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.

BPC Chemical Technologies signed an exclusive distribution agreement of Songwon polymer stabilizers

Mr. Dieter Morath, Executive Vice President EMEA of Songwon International AG and Mrs. Irina Pavlova, Managing Director of BPC Chemical Technologies, have signed an exclusive agreement for the distribution of Songwon polymer stabilizers in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and CIS countries.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.

英國好利得顏料新開發耐酸群青產品在2007中國國際塗料展上發佈

Holliday Pigments英國好利得顏料,全球領先的群青顏料供應商,將在2007年中國國際塗料展上展出其新開發的耐酸群青藍產品,群青59。