Ascend to highlight its latest Vydyne® innovations for automotive lightweighting and E&E at PIAE 2019

AscendAscend Performance Materials, the world’s largest fully integrated producer of polyamide 6,6 resin (PA66), will showcase its solutions for automotive lightweighting and electrification at PIAE 2019.

Clariant forecasts color formulations synergizing with new mobility trends in Automotive Styling Shades Trendbook

Image ECS 2019 2021-2023 Automotive Styling ShadesClariant, a focused and innovative specialty chemical company, links past and future in the 2021-2023 Automotive Styling Shades Trendbook. The new guide predicts subdued alongside lively color surprises to match the unprecedented changes impacting mobility in the coming decade.

Clariant offers better product access for oil production customers through new supply base in Indonesia

Clariant and its Oil Services partner. 
(Photo: Clariant)Clariant, a focused and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced the opening of a new supply base at Bojonegoro in East Java. This new storage facility in Indonesia provides Clariant’s Oil Services customers in the region with an improved, more sustainable supply chain for its Pour Point Depressants (PPD) and Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) products, in line with the specific requirements of the oil industry. The opening ceremony, held at the new base, was attended by government officials and Clariant customers in the region.

Strong partners, SONGWON & SABO mark another milestone in their collaboration

Strong partners, SONGWON & SABO mark another milestone in their collaboration.
(Photo: SONGWON Industrial Co., Ltd.)
SONGWON Industrial Group (www.songwon.com), the 2nd largest manufacturer of polymer stabilizers in the world and Sabo S.p.A. (www.sabo.com), a world leader in the development and manufacturing of hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS), today marked another milestone in their long-term collaboration.

Clariant accelerates sustainable, safer coatings FOR ALL THINGS MOBILITY

Image ECS 2019 Coatings for all things mobility getting a sustainability boostClariant, a focused and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced more support for coatings to make their mark in the sustainable transformation of all kinds of land, sea and air transport – from personal mobility to passenger and commercial transportation, ships, and agricultural, construction and earthmoving (ACE) machinery.

BioVoice: Boosting Biobased Business

mkb en start-ups uitgedaagd om innovatie challenges aan te gaan.Als grote multinationals op zoek zijn naar nieuwe toepassingen en R&D afdelingen een proces willen optimaliseren, ligt de oplossing niet altijd voor de hand. Maar er zijn vaak wel kleine, innovatieve bedrijven en start-ups die uitkomst kunnen bieden. BioVoice, het nieuwe ‘biobased business booster’ programma van REWIN West-Brabant en Green Chemistry Campus, brengt deze twee werelden met elkaar in contact.

ELIX Polymers presents plating portfolio developments at PIAE

ELIX Polymers presents plating portfolio developments at PIAE. 
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ELIX Polymers will present latest developments in its portfolio of chrome-platable ABS-based materials at PIAE, the Plastics in Automotive Engineering congress in Mannheim, Germany on April 3 and 4. Once again at this leading annual industry event, ELIX will have its own stand – Booth 99 – where it will show its product portfolio and new innovations.

SABIC lance un nouveau filament de support detachable conçu pour améliorer la productivité des fabricants de pièces par impression 3D

Pompe à huile d’automobile réalisée par impression 3D avec le filament ULTEM™ AM9085F de SABIC, représentée avant détachement du nouveau filament support AMS31F.SABIC, qui compte parmi les leaders mondiaux de l’industrie chimique, a annoncé ce jour le lancement de son filament AMS31F, le matériau que propose la société pour les supports détachable et qui sont utilisés en impression 3D par dépôt de filament en fusion. Ce nouveau filament préserve la rigidité pendant l’impression et présente une aptitude au pliage exceptionnelle, ce qui permet d’enlever plus facilement l’échafaudage à température ambiante lors du post-traitement et peut contribuer ainsi à réduire le temps et les moyens nécessaires pour obtenir la pièce finie. Le nouveau filament AMS31F est prévu pour être utilisé avec le filament ULTEM AM9085F de SABIC, un polyétherimide (PEI) à hautes performances qui confère des valeurs élevées de résistance à chaud et de résistance mécanique, deux propriétés essentielles pour les applications aéronautique, automobile, pétrolier et gazier et enfin pour la réalisation d’outillage.