Guardian launches Student Design Challenge focusing on interior applications for Clarity™ anti-reflective glass

The Guardian Student Design Challenge 2016 (www.guardiandesignchallenge.com) invites design students to submit creative ideas for using Guardian Clarity™ anti-reflective glass for interiors at home, at work and/or at events. 
(Photos Guardian Industries Corp., GRDPR034) Bertrange, Luxembourg, February 4, 2016 – Glass has the ability to combine light, transparency, clarity, security and beauty with functionality - and already helps to create comfortable and inspiring environments. With some creative imagination, what can it achieve in the years ahead?

SABIC powers Elopak’s sustainability ambitions with certified renewable polyethelene

Niels Petter Wright, CEO of ElopakSittard, The Netherlands, February 4, 2016 - With the demand for energy and natural feedstock usage continually increasing in the world, there is a growing need for sustainable products made from renewable materials. Global packaging enterprise Elopak has taken on the ambitious goal of achieving a net zero impact on the environment, as featured in Stories of Possible, an award-winning campaign that captures the way SABIC is helping to realise customers’ ambitions. The stories reveal how SABIC helps to make possible their customers’ visions to better serve the industries in which they operate and create their competitive advantage for the long term. This film shows how the collaboration with SABIC has taken Elopak further in their ambition to achieve absolute sustainability. See the full story on video here.

Functional and aesthetic façade glass is becoming a trend in the Czech and Slovak republics

Central shopping center in Bratislava. 
(Photo Guardian Industries Corp., GRDPR026) Bertrange, Luxembourg, February 3, 2016 – Technically advanced glass for building façades and windows is now finding its place in Czech and Slovak commercial construction. In recent years, several interesting buildings have arisen in those two republics that stand out for their aesthetic and functional characteristics, including greater interior comfort and lower energy costs. Following are just a few notable examples.

Webinar - How to seal your powertrain flanges under the harshest conditions

Georg Schubert
Business Director Automotive Adhesives 
(Photo: Henkel)Gaskets aim to prevent leakage of fluids or gases by filling the space between the surfaces of the flanges – and they must remain intact and leak-free for a prolonged time, especially in automotive engineering.

Clariant to Present Sustainable, Performance-Enhancing Chemistry Advancements at '16 Middle East Corrosion Conference

Clariant to Present Sustainable, Performance-Enhancing Chemistry Advancements at '16 Middle East Corrosion Conference. (Photo: Clariant)Houston, TX, February 2, 2016 – Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, today announced that the company will exhibit and present multiple papers at the 16th Middle East Corrosion Conference and Exhibition (16MECC) held February 8-11, 2016, at the Gulf International Convention Center, Gulf Hotel in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Clariant Oil Services has made significant progress in developing and field-proving chemistries that target corrosion inhibition and iron sulfide dissolution, and these findings will be presented during the Technical Program on the morning of Thursday, February 11.

TE Connectivity and Andretti Technologies Partnership Showcases Clean Energy Innovation

TE Connectivity featured Formula E Car at SPS IPC Drives 2015 tradeshow. 
(Source: TE Connectivity, PR041)DARMSTADT, Germany – February 2, 2016 – TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, displayed the Formula E car, an all-electric car, on the TE booth at the SPS IPC Drives tradeshow, November 24-26 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany. TE will continue its partnership with Andretti Technologies at this year’s Formula E race, which will take place on May 26 in Berlin.

TE Connectivity to Showcase Innovations at Light + Building Show

TE Connectivity to showcase innovations at Light + Building Show. 
(Source: TE Connectivity, PR048)HARRISBURG, Pa., USA – February 2, 2016 – TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and innovator in building automation, is demonstrating solutions that sense, connect and control today’s most modern buildings at the 2016 Light + Building Expo in Frankfurt, Germany from March 13 to 18. Also on display on the company’s stand (Booth B26 in Hall 4) will be various LED lighting solutions for indoors and outdoors. TE has a full line of LED lighting and building automation solutions.

Milliken features all-round improvements for lighter vehicle parts at VDI Plastics in Automotive Engineering 2016

The lightweight and aesthetic benefits of Hyperform® HPR803i reinforcing agent can be demonstrated with an example of innovative exterior door-trim for a Cross-Over vehicle.
(Photo © 2016 Milliken & Company, all rights reserved, MKPR141)Ghent, Belgium – Milliken focuses on improving all-round mechanical performance and aesthetics of lightweight polypropylene (PP) and polyurethane (PU) parts to meet the high requirements of the automotive industry at the forthcoming 2016 VDI Plastics in Automotive Engineering Conference in Mannheim, Germany.