4 Jun 2010
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ New, High-Temp Ultem* Healthcare Resins Help Ritter Clean Up the Competition with Enhanced Chemical Resistance
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – June 4, 2010 – Ritter GmbH, a German manufacturer of labware and medical products, has moved ahead of the competition with its award-winning1 Polysteribox® sterilization and transport container, which uses a new Ultem* polyetherimide (PEI) healthcare resin grade from SABIC Innovative Plastics. Patient safety concerns have raised the bar for chemical cleaning and autoclave sterilization of reusable medical devices, requiring manufacturers to find new materials that can withstand stronger alkalinity and higher temperatures. As it has done for many customers, SABIC Innovative Plastics developed a special grade of its workhorse Ultem resin to meet Ritter’s need to comply with the new, tougher standards, demonstrating the company’s ongoing efforts to help healthcare customers meet increasingly stringent regulatory, quality and cost mandates.
3 Jun 2010
Clariant launches new urea-free paper brightener with highest whiteness levels
Muttenz, June 03, 2010 - Clariant, a leading company in optical brightening agents, offers paper manufacturers new opportunities to achieve the highest possible whiteness levels for printing and writing paper with the launch of Leucophor® VHR liquid. The optical brightening agent (OBA) is the latest addition to Clariant’s innovative Leucophor range.
3 Jun 2010
Rhodia to exhibit and unveil still more innovations at K 2010:
“Discover a world of solutions by Rhodia”
Lyon, France – June 3, 2010 – Rhodia announces its participation in the K 2010 global engineering plastics trade fair and unveils its latest innovations.
3 Jun 2010
Rhodia announces the development of a new polyamide high-performance composite material
Lyon, France – June 3, 2010 – At a pre-show press conference held in Amsterdam on May 27, dealing with the K 2010 Plastics trade fair scheduled for later in the year, Rhodia unveiled its latest innovations including the announcement of the development of a new polyamide high-performance composite material.
3 Jun 2010
Songwon announces the expansion of its new isobutylene facility
Ulsan, Korea – June 3, 2010 – Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. is pleased to announce that its new isobutylene (IBL) production facility located at the Maeam site in South Korea, which just started production in May 2009 with a capacity of 30.000 tons has been successfully expanded to reach a total capacity of 40.000 tons.
3 Jun 2010
LBC TANK TERMINALS MOVES COMPANY HEADQUARTERS TO MECHELEN, BELGIUM TO BETTER SERVE CUSTOMERS AND DRIVE FUTURE GROWTH
LBC Tank Terminals announced today that, effective 1 June 2010, the company will relocate its headquarters from Paris, France to Mechelen, Belgium as part of an ambitious and accelerating business strategy to better serve customers and support future growth. The move also underscores the company’s expanding global position as the preferred global provider of bulk liquid storage solutions and reflects LBC’s continued evolution as a customer-focused organization.
3 Jun 2010
Clariant increases prices of textile chemicals and textile dyes
Muttenz, June 03, 2010 - Clariant's Business Unit Textile Chemicals, today announced global price increases for its entire textile product portfolio – depending on the specific product group – between 5% and 40%.
1 Jun 2010
Polyscope Polymers expands scope of Xiran® SMA as additive for amorphous thermoplastics
Styrene maleic anhydride, long established as a high performance thermoplastic in its own right, is now finding increasing use as a functional additive and compatibilizer in other amorphous and to some extent crystalline thermoplastics. Major SMA producer Polyscope is leading the way in expanding the use of this polymer as a property enhancer.
