06-06-2007
CHEMTURA APPOINTS RICK BEITEL VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL SALES, PERFORMANCE SPECIALTIES
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) has named Rick Beitel Vice President of Global Sales, Performance Specialties. In this position, Beitel is responsible for sales growth for those businesses comprising the Performance Specialties division, including: Transportation & Industrial Lubricants & Greases, Urethane Products, Optical Monomers, Organicometallic Catalysts & Compounds, and Fluorines. Prior to this, as Vice President of Sales Excellence, he worked to achieve key growth objectives for Chemtura’s global sales organization.
Pre-K Event05-06-2007
Arkema en la feria K 2007 – Pabellón 6 / Stand C57
Arkema estará presente en la feria K 2007 con todas sus actividades de plásticos: PVC, PMMA, Polímeros Técnicos y Aditivos Funcionales. La K 2007 brindará a Arkema la oportunidad de mostrar aplicaciones nuevas con PMMA, en particular en pantallas planas de televisión, junto con nuevos desarrollos de Polímeros Técnicos, en particular en las gamas de producto Rilsan® y Pebax®.
05-06-2007
GE Plastics Unveils Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands — June 5, 2007 — GE Plastics today opened its first Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence here. The new facility is aimed at helping customers around the world design, create, and process innovative auto glazing applications using GE’s environmentally progressive Lexan* GLX polycarbonate (PC) resins and other engineered materials. As one of the company’s Global Application Technology (GApT) centers, the Automotive Glazing Center of Excellence features equipment and technologies from Krauss Maffei and Summerer Technologies.
05-06-2007
Borealis sells its petrochemical business in Norway to Ineos
• Sale of Norwegian polyolefins business and share in Noretyl gas cracker to Ineos
• Creation of independent innovation company
• Group support functions remain in Norway as a separate unit
Continuing with the restructuring of its Norwegian operations, Borealis AS announces that it has reached an agreement to sell its petrochemical business in Bamble, Norway, to Ineos for EUR 290 million. It has also been decided to create a new independent innovation company to take over its innovation centre in Bamble and to retain the existing group support functions at the location as a separate unit.
05-06-2007
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Celebrates Research and Development Center Expansion in Chonan, Korea
Shanghai, China, June 5, 2007 – Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials (NYSE: ROH), a leading supplier of advanced lithography materials for the semiconductor industry, celebrated the official opening of its new five-story Chonan R&D Center on Tuesday, May 29, with local customers and government officials among the guests.
05-06-2007
Distrupol élargit sa gamme avec les polymères techniques Aquafil
Distrupol a élargi sa gamme de polymères techniques en y ajoutant l’Aquamid AR100 et la gamme Aquamid HC de la société Aquafil Technopolymers. Ces deux polymères sont aujourd’hui disponibles dans toutes les régions desservies par le réseau de distribution de Distrupol.
05-06-2007
DSM DYNEEMA AND SHIMANO COLLABORATE ON HIGH-TECH FISHING LINES TO HELP SPORTSMEN LAND THAT MOST WANTED CATCH
URMOND (NL), June 5, 2007 - At EFTTEX 2007 a new generation of sport fishing lines from Shimano featuring super-strong Dyneema® fiber from DSM Dyneema are being introduced. The new Aspire fishing lines have an astonishing strength to diameter ratio. They meet specific demands from sportsmen for thinner lines that are less visible to fish, provide better handling, and allow more line to be placed on the reel.
