Distrupol CEO to retire end of March

Distrupol CEO to retire end of March Distrupol’s European CEO, Steve Bradbury, has announced his retirement and will leave the company at the end of March.

Zuverlässige Kennzeichnung von Elektronikbauteilen; neue Polyesterfolie für die Elektronikindustrie

3M3M hat eine neue Polyesterfolie für die Kennzeichnung in der Elektronikindustrie entwickelt, die höchsten Anforderungen an die Chemikalienbeständigkeit genügt und über hervorragende Klebeeigenschaften auch auf schwierigem Untergrund verfügt.

Gaco Western und Honeywell erfolgreich mit Spritzschaumsystem auf Basis von Enovate™ 3000 (HFKW-245fa)

Gaco Western und Honeywell erfolgreich mit Spritzschaumsystem auf Basis von Enovate™ 3000 (HFKW-245fa) 
 In erfolgreichen Feldversuchen am 30. Oktober und 20. November 2001 hat Gaco Western die Dächer von zwei kommerziellen Einrichtungen in den USA mit Spritzschaum-systemen beschichtet, die auf dem Treibmittel Enovate™ 3000 von Honeywell basieren. Gegenstand des ersten Versuchs war ein 46 m2 großes Dach am Produktionsstandort von Gaco Western in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Der zweite Versuch fand bei Freday’s Bar and Grill in Paddock Lake, Wisconsin, statt.

MBS Nordic appointed distributor for Huntsman Surface Sciences in Nordic region

MBS Nordic appointed distributor for Huntsman Surface Sciences in Nordic region MBS Nordic, the leading Nordic-region chemical distributor, has announced its appointment as distributor for Huntsman Surface Sciences throughout Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The agreement between the two companies, which covers the full range of Huntsman surfactants, greatly strengthens MBS Nordic’s position in these markets.

HYPERION CATALYSIS OPENS PLASTICS TECHNICAL CENTER AS NEW RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPING CONDUCTIVE APPLICATIONS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – February 11, 2002 – Hyperion Catalysis International, the world’s only tonnage producer of carbon nanotubes, announced today that it has opened a new plastics technical center at its Cambridge headquarters. Hyperion produces multi-walled nanotubes sold under the tradename FIBRIL™. These submicroscopic hollow tubes confer electrical conductivity at lower loadings than other conductive additives when compounded with otherwise-insulating materials such as thermoplastics. The plastics technical center is one facet of an expansion at Hyperion’s Cambridge site.

OMNEXUS EXPANDS NATIVE-LANGUAGE DAILY NEWS ON GLOBAL SITES

OmnexusATLANTA and ZURICH, Switzerland (Feb. 4, 2002) – Plastics eMarketplace Omnexus has further bolstered its role as the central resource for plastics professionals worldwide by increasing the choices of native-language daily news offered on the company’s regionally focused Web sites. Omnexus has debuted daily news coverage on its French-language site through an agreement with Caoutchoucs & Plastiques, one of the leading plastics magazines in France, adding to the English and German-language news stories already available on Omnexus.