AVERY DENNISON TAKES HOME TLMI ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR THE THIRD TIME

Darrell Hughes, VP Label & Packaging Materials at Avery Dennison, receives a TLMI Environmental award from Calvin Frost.
(Photo: Avery Dennison, PR199)Mentor, Ohio, November 5, 2013 - Avery Dennison has been named winner of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute's (TLMI) 2013 Supplier Award for Environmental Leadership for the third time in the award’s history. Avery Dennison is the first company to be recognized with the honor three times.

EMG's Steps for Schools campaign raises €7,500 for a school in Sierra Leone

The EMG Team and local participants celebrate the Steps for Schools campaign.Bergen op Zoom, November 5, 2013 - EMG, the leading international, industrial communications company, today celebrated the end of its Steps for Schools campaign raised €7,500.00 euros ($10,200.00) for the Gbumbeh Primary School.

High performance at low temperatures leads EcoPaXX from DSM to success in Salomon's snowboard binding

High performance at low temperatures leads EcoPaXX from DSM to success in snowboard binding application. 
(Photo: DSM Engineering Plastics: DSMPR405)Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences Company, announces another application for its EcoPaXX® polyamide 410, with the adoption of this high performance bio-based engineering plastic for Salomon's snowboard bindings made by Amer Sports.

HELPMESEE CELEBRATES WORLD SIGHT DAY BY SUCCESSFULLY TESTING LEADING EDGE VIRTUAL CATARACT EYE SURGERY SIMULATOR

HelpMeSee simulator development team, Dr. M. Glenn Strauss, Chief Medical Officer, and Dennis Gulasy, Director of Engineering and Simulation Systems evaluate the Prototype (proof of concept) of HelpMeSee MSICS Eye Surgery Simulator by Moog. 
(Photo courtesy of HelpMeSee, MGPR1311)East Aurora, NY, USA, October 31, 2013 - In recognition of World Sight Day, HelpMeSee - global campaign to eliminate cataract blindness - and Moog - a worldwide designer, manufacturer and integrator of precision control components and systems - have achieved a significant milestone in eye surgery simulation by successfully demonstrating the capabilities of the world's first MSICS (Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery) virtual reality surgical training simulator.

DSM joins LIPA-Team to develop series production of advanced thermoplastic composites parts

DSM Engineering MaterialsRoyal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announces it has joined the LIPA-Team, set up to develop an industrial process for the manufacture of endless-fibre-reinforced advanced thermoplastic composite parts. LIPA stands for "Lightweight Integrated Process Application." DSM will contribute with materials know-how and in-depth understanding of polyamide 6 applications.

AVERY DENNISON’S GLOBAL MDO FILM IS HONOURED AT RINGIER TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD 2013

Avery Dennison’s global MDO film is honoured at Ringier Technology Innovation Award 2013. (Photos: Avery Dennison, PR195)SHANGHAI, China – October 31, 2013 – Avery Dennison Corporation a global leader in the label and packaging industry, is winning acclaim across China with its Global MDO film. In July, it captured the “Technology Innovation Award” in the Packaging Material and Design Concept category of the Ringier Technology Innovation Award 2013, which recognizes the innovators in China's packaging industry each year.

Clariant Opens New Innovation Center in Frankfurt

Clariant Opens New Innovation Center in Frankfurt. 
(Photos: Clariant)Muttenz, October 31, 2013 – Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is today officially opening its new EUR 100 million Clariant Innovation Center (CIC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The company’s new global hub for Research & Development (R&D) is based at the “Industriepark Höchst.” It will be the home of Clariant’s competence centers in chemical research and process technology as well as application laboratories for several Business Units and state-of-the art analytical laboratories . The CIC will also house the departments for Intellectual Property Management and New Business Development. As the corporation’s global hub, the CIC will ensure the coordination of Clariant’s world-wide R&D network, which includes centers across Europe, North America, Brazil, Japan, India and China.

Energy saving benefits of Millad® NX™ 8000 validated with UL approved label

UL Environment supplies guidelines for using an ECV label (size, placement on product packaging and promotional materials, etc). To ensure visibility and legibility on print applications, the mark should never be presented in a size smaller than 1.2” wide. For more details go to www.ul.com. 
(Photo MKPR106, Copyright© 2013 Milliken & Company, all rights reserved)Ghent, Belgium - The energy-saving benefits of Milliken's new generation clarifier Millad® NX™ 8000 for polypropylene (PP) have been validated by the independent organisation UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories). The validation qualifies Milliken and eventually its customers, from converters to brand owners, to use an Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) label to highlight the energy consumption reductions achieved with the use of Millad NX 8000 in a transparent PP product.