06-06-2007
QUADRANT EPP APUNTA ALTO CON NUEVAS FORMAS PREDETERMINADAS DE BAJA FRICCIÓN Y BAJO DESGASTE PARA JUNTAS Y COJINETES
Tielt, Bélgica – Junio de 2007 – El fabricante de formas predeterminadas Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) ha ampliado su gama Fluorosint® de formas exclusivas basadas en PTFE de altas prestaciones para mecanizar añadiendo un grado apto para entornos extremos y temperaturas comprendidas entre -240°C y +260°C.
06-06-2007
COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS PROVE IDEAL FOR BUILDING FORMWORK SYSTEMS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – June, 2007 – Replacing plywood with high-performance composites may appear at first sight to be a prime case of over-engineering. But there is good reason to believe that a new formwork product from German company Hünnebeck, one of the world's top suppliers of formwork and scaffolding, will signal a paradigm shift in the industry.
06-06-2007
INJECTION MOULDED PASSENGER AIRBAG HOUSING FROM QUADRANT CMS SAVES WEIGHT AND COST
TIELT, BELGIUM – June, 2007 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) of Tielt, Belgium, working in close co-operation with Tier-1 automotive supplier Autoliv, has developed a new, polyamide passenger airbag housing for use in vehicles based on the Volkswagen Golf platform. The housing, moulded from impact-modified polyamide 6 with 40 percent glass-fibre reinforcement, is just under half the weight of the original metal counterpart and provides considerable cost-of-manufacture savings. The part is being installed in vehicles such as the VW Golf, Audi A3, Seat Leon and Skoda Fabia since early 2007.
06-06-2007
VORWERK GROUP PARTNERS WITH QUADRANT CMS FOR FUNCTIONALLY AESTHETIC VACUUM HOSE MODULE
TIELT, BELGIUM – June, 2007 – True to its vision of delivering a combination of product development, production and assembly from a single source, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) in Tielt, Belgium, has partnered German vacuum cleaner manufacturer Vorwerk in the design and manufacture of a new polymer-based vacuum hose module. The part, included on Vorwerk’s new “Tiger” vacuum cleaner which was launched globally in early 2007, delivers improvements in terms of functionality, handling and aesthetics.
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.
