27 Feb 2008
SABIC Innovative Plastics Helps Multigon Design Cost-effective Transcranial Doppler Device to Detect Brain Injuries
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – February 27, 2008 – A new portable Transcranial Doppler (TCD) device from Multigon Industries, Inc., featuring SABIC Innovative Plastics’ LNP* Faradex* compound, provides a new way to detect unseen, yet traumatic, brain injuries in the field – whether a football field or a battlefield. The Neurovision™ 500P pocket TCD, with electromagnetic/radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) shielding provided by LNP Faradex compound, makes it easier for doctors and other medical personnel to evaluate a potential brain injury on site, possibly improving outcomes from head injuries through early diagnosis and intervention.
26 Feb 2008
NEW UK DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE AVERY GRAPHICS™ FILMS RANGE
Leiden, The Netherlands - Avery Dennison Graphics and Reflective Products has appointed ThyssenKrupp Materials (UK) Plastics Division fully-accredited UK distributors of the Avery Graphics range of self-adhesive films and ancillary products for the signage, screen process, and digital print markets.
26 Feb 2008
NEW BARINATE™ B-70 OVERBASED BARIUM SULFONATE:
SUPERIOR CORROSION INHIBITION, DETERGENCY AND RUST PROTECTION
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE: CEM) takes anti-corrosion chemistries to new levels of effectiveness as it launches Barinate™ B-70 Overbased Barium Sulfonate worldwide. Chemtura is also selling high-efficiency Oxpet™ Corrosion Inhibitors in North America for the first time.
26 Feb 2008
PPG Aerospace window repair operation approved by China aviation authority
PPG Industries’ (PPG:NYSE) aerospace transparencies business has recently received approval by the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China to overhaul and repair framed aircraft cockpit windows, and it has begun operations in Suzhou to serve airlines operating in China.
25 Feb 2008
Borealis creates Science and Technology Advisory Board
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces the creation of a Science and Technology Advisory Board to provide further impetus to its step change in innovation programme. The new board’s activities will be coordinated by Walter Kadl, a former Board Member of Borealis, and will comprise well respected experts in the field of plastics, namely Professor Paolo Galli, Professor Manfred Raetzsch, and Professor Hans-Gerhard Fritz. The board will focus on catalyst, process and application driven research and development.
22 Feb 2008
Sidel at Interpack 2008:Innovations safeguard health and the environment
Sidel, one of the world’s top suppliers of complete bottling lines, will take part in Interpack, packaging’s biggest trade show, in Dusseldorf from April 24th-30th. At its 1,000-sq-meter booth, Sidel will present its newest packaging solutions, from bottle design to palletizing.
21 Feb 2008
PPG acquires NanoProducts Corporation
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has recently acquired the assets and intellectual property of NanoProducts Corporation, Longmont, Colo., a producer of nanoproduct materials and a developer of nanoproduct technology. Terms were not disclosed.
21 Feb 2008
Borealis demonstrates award-winning innovations to automotive industry
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, will demonstrate the award-winning benefits of its pioneering polypropylene (PP) solutions to key decision makers in the automotive industry at the VDI “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” International Conference from March 5-6, 2008 in Mannheim, Germany.
