MachinePoint will introduce new services and promote its new Website at Interplas

MachinePoint’s new website highlights an Advanced Search with enhanced search capabilities for a broader and more accurate search. Launched in June 2002, with a better layout and more user-friendly, MachinePoint’s new website highlights an Advanced Search with enhanced search capabilities for a broader and more accurate search. It also allows access to ‘Special Offers’, ‘Latest Entries’, and other new sections such as ‘Ask the Expert’ and a machinery ‘Wanted’ section.

Distrupol wins distributorship for DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers

DistrupolDistrupol, a member company of Univar and the leading UK polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, has been appointed distributor for DuPont packaging and industrial polymers. The agreement covers distribution throughout the UK and Ireland for Elvax® Ethylene Vinyl acetate resins, Surlyn® ionomer resins, Fusabond® polymer modifiers and Elvaloy® AC acrylate copolymer resins.

VAPLA S.A. to enter UK high performance PE sheet market

Harvest PolymersJorge Terol of leading Spanish sheet manufacturer VAPLA S.A. announced the company’s decision to market their VAPLATEC, VAPLADUR and VAPLASOL high molecular weight polyolefin sheet in the UK, in partnership with specialist distributor Harvest Polymers Ltd.

H & R Associates offers additional E-Services

Harvest PolymersH & R Associates International, now in its fourth year, offers a broad portfolio of consulting services to the worlds polymer industry. At Interplas H & R will exhibit with sister company Harvest Polymers Ltd on stand 3240A and BPF industry affiliate the Plastics Consultancy Network on stand 3240G.

Victrex nombra a un nuevo Director Comercial

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Victrex plc anuncia la incorporación de Blair Souder a la Junta como Director Comercial con efecto a partir del 16 de septiembre de 2002. 

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 Victrex plc anuncia la incorporación de Blair Souder a la Junta como Director Comercial con efecto a partir del 16 de septiembre de 2002.

Commercial Director Harvest Polymers

Commercial Director Harvest Polymers
(Photo HP003-AJB Release 09/02) Alan Brooks has been appointed Commercial Director of Harvest Polymers Ltd., the specialist distributor of thermoplastic elastomers based in Farnham Surrey.

Owens Corning Signs Contract With Ashland Finland OY For Enhanced Presence In European Market

Owens Corning Composite SolutionsToledo, Ohio, September 2002 – In order to better serve the European market, Owens Corning announced that it has signed a distribution contract with Ashland Finland OY, a subsidiary of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), to distribute product through Ashland Specialty Chemical Company’s Composite Polymers business unit. Ashland’s Composite Polymers business unit is one of the world's largest producers of resins for reinforced plastics and is considered a leader in composite resin technology.

El polímero PEEK-HT™ Victrex® proporciona la base para el termoplástico Arlon® 2000 utilizado en piezas moldeadas de conectores submarinos y de fondo de pozo

El conector SealConnect® de 8 clavijas de Greene, Tweed & Co. destinado a la exploración y producción de yacimientos petrolíferos ha sido moldeado con el polímero PEEK-HT™ Victrex® con objeto de proporcionar fiabilidad de producto a largo plazo a temperaturas y presiones más altas. Greene, Tweed & Co., un fabricante líder de precintos especializados y de componentes plásticos de ingeniería de alta precisión, ha especificado el polímero de uso a alta temperatura PEEK-HT™ Victrex® como la base para su producto ARLON® 2000, utilizado en el moldeo de sus conectores SealConnect® de 8 clavijas. Específicamente desarrollados para su uso en la exploración y producción de yacimientos petrolíferos, estos conectores están diseñados para resistir la exposición prolongada a una presión aplicada de 138 MPa a 204 °C, siendo también posible una exposición no prolongada a presiones de 172 MPa a 260 °C.