24 Jun 2008
Suggar’s washing machines clean up the competition with stylish, transparent top doors featuring Polypropylene clarified with Milliken’s Millad® NX8000
Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, today announced that Suggar, a leading appliance maker in Brazil producing 2,500 washing machines a day, is using polypropylene (PP) clarified with Millad® NX8000 to replace styrene acrylonitrile (SAN) in three of its most popular washer models: the Top Max 5.0, the Viva, and the Viva Max 6.0. By upgrading the existing washer top doors to PP clarified with Millad NX8000, which delivers previously unattainable levels of clarity, Suggar has provided the transparency that customers desire while significantly improving impact resistance for better durability. Further, due to lower density, the clarified PP is equivalent in cost to the SAN resin.
23 Jun 2008
CHEMTURA EXPANDS EUROPEAN TECHNICAL SERVICE LABORATORY FOR GROWTH IN POLYURETHANES
Chemtura Corporation’s Performance Specialties business has completed a substantial expansion at its European regional Technical Service laboratory—an investment to support further growth of its range of Adiprene®/Vibrathane® polyurethane prepolymers. The newly refurbished and upgraded laboratory is located at Chemtura’s European manufacturing plant in Latina, Italy, where it produces Adiprene®, Vibrathane® & Ribbon Flow® TDI and MDI prepolymers, Adiprene® Low Free TDI prepolymers and Vibracure® curatives.
19 Jun 2008
Efficast® Masks Offers Gold Standard in Patient Immobilization for Radiation Therapy
JERICHO, N.Y. - 19 June 2008 – Orfit Industries America today announced the expansion of its North American operations to give hospital-based and freestanding cancer centers faster access to their high-precision patient immobilization systems which use Efficast® thermoplastic masks. The company, whose technology is used in 75 percent of European radiation therapy facilities, is rapidly expanding in North America to meet demand for its products. Radiation therapy clinicians and radiation therapists who wish to improve treatment outcomes and increase patient comfort are upgrading to the superior immobilization performance and ease of use of Efficast masks.
19 Jun 2008
CHEMTURA TO INCREASE WESTON®, MARK®, AND NAUGARD® PHOSPHITE PRICES
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) will increase the price of Weston®, Mark®, and Naugard® phosphite antioxidants and stabilizers by $0.40-$0.60/kg, effective for all deliveries on or after June 10, 2008, or as contracts allow. The price increase is necessary to recover the unprecedented increases in the costs of phosphorus-based chemicals.
19 Jun 2008
Moog FCS SELECTED TO PROVIDE LEADING-EDGE DRIVING SIMULATOR FOR FERRARI
East Aurora, N.Y. – June 19, 2008 – Moog FCS, a part of Moog’s Industrial Group and a leader in providing high-performance flight simulation and leading-edge testing systems to the automotive, aviation and aerospace markets, announced that Ferrari has placed an order for the engineering, design, development and deployment of a next-generation driving simulator to be located at Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, Italy.
18 Jun 2008
DUPONT PERFORMANCE ELASTOMERS ANNOUNCES PRICE INCREASE
WILMINGTON, Del., June 18, 2008 -- DuPont Performance Elastomers recently announced a global price increase of 10 percent on Viton® fluoroelastomers and chemicals; this increase will be effective in China on July 15.
18 Jun 2008
Zehn-Finger-Abdruck für mehr Sicherheit in Europa
Düsseldorf; 18.06.2008 – Die NEC Deutschland GmbH gibt die Gründung des neuen, europaweit agierenden Geschäftsbereichs Identification Solutions Division (ISD) mit Hauptsitz in Düsseldorf bekannt. Der zentrale Anlass für seine Gründung ist der wachsende Bedarf an behördlicherseits eingesetzten biometrischen Lösungen in Europa. Der Fokus der neuen Abteilung besteht darin, vom Hauptstandort Düsseldorf und den Niederlassungen in London und Amsterdam aus sowie in Zusammenarbeit mit NEC-Töchtern, Partnern und Kunden für die Bereitstellung biometrischer Systeme in ganz Europa zu sorgen. Diese Systeme sollen im öffentlichen Bereich, von Strafverfolgungsbehörden, im Transportsektor sowie bei Grenzkontrollen eingesetzt werden.
17 Jun 2008
PPG Chairman Bunch reviews transformation of company
NEW YORK – Charles E. Bunch, chairman and chief executive officer of PPG Industries, described for investment analysts recently how much the company has changed in the past several years based on several strategic initiatives undertaken to focus on coatings and specialty products.
