BELDEN CABSAT Preview

BeldenAt Cabsat (4-6 March Dubai), Belden will present its latest corporate image on ZB-2 together with a wide range of existing and new products of particular interest to cable, satellite, broadcast and communications users in the Middle East and Europe.

SABIC Innovative Plastics’ New Lexan* DMX Film is One-Stop Shop Solution Offering Full Array of Properties for Portable Electronics

SABIC Innovative Plastics’ New Lexan* DMX Film>BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – February 29, 2008 – SABIC Innovative Plastics today launched new Lexan* DMX polycarbonate (PC) films for portable electronics applications such as cell phone and laptop A, B and C covers, palm rests, and keypads. Lexan DMX films feature a proprietary layered construction leveraging SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Lexan DMX resin for enhanced performance, aesthetics, durability, and processing to accommodate a wide range of laptop and handheld device designs. Key properties are pencil hardness rating of 1H, easy formability, high impact resistance and fabrication ease for Insert Mold Decoration (IMD) graphics.

MATTHEW HELLSTERN TO HEAD CHEMTURA URETHANES

Matthew Hellstern will assume leadership of the Chemtura Urethanes business unit as vice president.Matthew Hellstern will assume leadership of the Chemtura Urethanes business unit as vice president, announced Chief Business Officer & Group President Robert Wedinger, Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM). Mr. Hellstern replaces John Dennerlein, who will lead the Industrial Lubricants & Additives unit in Chemtura’s Petroleum Additives business. Mr. Hellstern also will continue as vice president of Performance Specialties Products.

SABIC Innovative Plastics Helps Multigon Design Cost-effective Transcranial Doppler Device to Detect Brain Injuries

The NeurovisionTM 500P TCD Device’s Housing is Shielded with LNP* Faradex* Composite from SABIC Innovative Plastics>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.

NEW UK DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE AVERY GRAPHICS™ FILMS RANGE

Avery DennisonLeiden, 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.

NEW BARINATE™ B-70 OVERBASED BARIUM SULFONATE:
SUPERIOR CORROSION INHIBITION, DETERGENCY AND RUST PROTECTION

ChemturaChemtura 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.

PPG Aerospace window repair operation approved by China aviation authority

PPG IndustriesPPG 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.

Borealis creates Science and Technology Advisory Board

From left to right: Professor Manfred Raetzsch, Professor Paolo Galli, Walter Kadl, Professor Hans-Gerhard FritzBorealis, 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.