Clariant & Omya capitalize on the benefits of label-free innovation for SMP sealants

From left to right: Christopher Dobbins, Application Manager Adhesives & Sealants from Omya and Jean-Yves Desrats, Senior Technical Business Development Manager Coatings & Adhesives from Clariant.Clariant and Omya joined forces on a new project to tackle customers' concerns related to the yellowing of the increasingly popular SMP (silane modified polymers) sealants. The results of their collaboration addressed the yellowing issue whilst delivering a label-free solution with higher light and heat performance versus standard solutions in the market. The partners are proud to introduce AddWorks IBC 760 to ECS 2023 visitors.

Simplifying food safety: easily find food contact compliant additives with Clariant’s new offering

Simplifying food safety: easily find food contact compliant additives with Clariant’s new offering.To help customers fulfill the highest standards of safety and regulatory compliance, as well as ease ingredient selection, Clariant has launched a new package for the coatings sector that assists in the research of additives compliant with the most relevant food contact regulations.

SABIC’s ULTEM resin provides lightweight comfort for hearing-impaired and multi-language users of LLVision’s augmented reality eyeglasses

LEION Hey augmented reality (AR) eyeglasses from Beijing LLVision Technology Co., Ltd., display voice translations in text on the lenses in real time. The company’s glasses feature legs (or temples) molded from SABIC’s ULTEM™ 1000 resin. SABIC’s innovative material helped LLVision minimize the weight of the legs to give users all-day comfort, while providing high strength that enables key components to be integrated into the legs with maximum functionality.Hearing loss compensation and spoken language translation can now be provided using an unlikely yet elegant technology – augmented reality (AR) eyeglasses from Beijing LLVision Technology Co., Ltd., which display voice translations in text on the lenses in real time. The company’s LEION Hey glasses feature legs (or temples) molded from SABIC’s tough, lightweight and inherent, non-halogenated flame-retardant ULTEM 1000 resin. ULTEM resin enables thin-wall molding of the hollow legs, which contain both a lithium-ion battery and a computer chip to enable rapid, multi-language translations. SABIC’s innovative material helped LLVision minimize the weight of the legs to give users all-day comfort, while providing high strength that enables key components to be integrated into the legs with maximum functionality.

Beaulieu International Group and Arenal announce partnership to drive growth of padel in Belgium and Netherlands

João Moura, Portuguese professional padel player.
(Photo: © Beaulieu International Group)Padel pioneers Arenal and Artificial Grass specialists B.I.G. are pleased to announce the two companies have signed a long-term partnership to drive the growth of padel in the Belgian and Dutch markets. Over the last two years, padel has been growing exponentially, and as two market leaders, B.I.G. and Arenal are looking to further develop the sport. Arenal is a leading operator of padel courts in Belgium, looking to expand under the leadership of Marc Coucke, while B.I.G. is today a leading provider for artificial grass surfaces for padel, ready to market its products under its Act Sports brand.

Heubach launches influential Automotive Styling Shades 2027 Trendbook at ECS: “Plan B for Planet A”

Four color palettes featuring Heubach’s 28 new color shades in our Automotive Stylings Shades 2027 Trendbook. 
(Photo: Heubach)The new Heubach Group, a market leader in diversified organic, inorganic, and anti-corrosive pigments, pigment preparations, dyes and specialty materials has announced the latest edition of its automotive color previews: Automotive Styling Shades 2027 Trendbook, “Plan B for Planet A”. In doing so, the new Heubach Group continues Clariant’s BU Pigments tradition of the biennial color trend forecasting of the “Automotive Styling Shades Trendbook” series.

INEOS Styrolution’s K-Resin® KR21 selected by major household appliance manufacturers in Asia for refrigerator inliners

INEOS StyrolutionINEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has today announced that its K-Resin® KR21 has been successfully commercialised by major household appliance manufacturers in Asia for refrigerator inliners.

SONGWON showcases its coatings strength with new product releases at the European Coatings Show

SONGWONSONGWON Industrial Group (www.songwon.com), the 2nd largest manufacturer of polymer stabilizers in the world and global specialty chemicals player, continues to demonstrate its firm commitment to the coatings industry with the expansion of its comprehensive portfolio of high-performance coatings products and blends.

Agilyx and INEOS Styrolution advance development of large scale TruStyrenyx plant 

INEOS StyrolutionINEOS Styrolution America LLC (“INEOS Styrolution”), a global leader in styrenics, and Agilyx ASA (OSE: AGLX; OTCQX: AGXXF) (“Agilyx”), a technology company that enables customers to recycle post-use plastics to high value, virgin-equivalent products, today announce that they are advancing the development of a previously announced 100 tons per day TruStyrenyx™ chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois.