27-06-2001
Fact Sheet ‘Merging Boundaries’ European Product Design Awards
‘Merging Boundaries’ is a student design competition organised by GE Plastics to challenge European industrial design students to create and develop innovative product ideas for the application of GE engineering thermoplastic materials.
27-06-2001
GE Plastics announces prize winners in the European Student Design Competition ‘Merging Boundaries’
Rüsselsheim, June 27, 2001 – GE Plastics announced today the prize winners of the Merging Boundaries design competition. European students of industrial design were invited to create and develop innovative ideas for the application of products with functions that crossover the traditional application boundaries (i.e mobile phones and computers) as well as boundaries between workplace, household and leisure pursuits.
18-06-2001
New company focuses on biomaterial solutions for medical implants
Invibio Ltd. is a new company focusing exclusively on providing biomaterial solutions for the medical implant market. It is the sole manufacturer and distributor of PEEK-OPTIMA®, a high-performance biocompatible material. Combining outstanding chemical and hydrolysis resistance, high strength, and excellent tribological properties with extensive biocompatibility, PEEK-OPTIMA polymer is an ideal candidate for long-term medical implants in orthopaedic, cardiovascular and dental markets.
15-06-2001
PEEK polymer selected for the stretch rod tips of injection stretch blow moulding machines
Aoki Technical Laboratory Inc. (President: Shigeto Aoki, Head office: Sakaki-machi, Nagano-pref.), Japan's dedicated manufacturer of injection stretch blow moulding machines, recently announced the addition of PEEK™ (polyaryletheretherketone) polymer to their moulding machine’s stretch rod tips. PEEK™ replaces polyamide resin.
01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals America introduces lower cost one-pack stabilizers
Akcros Chemicals’ ongoing research and development has resulted in the market introduction of two new low cost, one-pack stabilizer systems. The new products, INTERSTAB® T-5172 and INTERSTAB® T-5201, extend the company’s already broad INTERSTAB® product family and are designed to offer greater cost-efficiency in rigid PVC applications, without any compromises in performance.
01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals chooses K2001 to exhibit under Akzo Nobel banner for the first time
Akcros Chemicals will be exhibiting under the banner of its parent company, Akzo Nobel, for the first time since mid-1998 when they agreed to purchase the remaining fifty-percent of the joint venture from its partner Elementis.
01-06-2001
Axxicon launches the “horizontal” AIM™ Mould System
Based on 12 years experience and feedback from customers world wide, Axxicon has launched the “horizontal” AIM Mould System (see picture). Besides the existing advantages (ie quick-change, flexible, safe) the “horizontal” AIM Mould System has following additonal advantages:
