Pre K2004 Press Briefing
| Crowne Plaza - Brussels Airport |
7 - 9 Jun 2004
The European Marketing Group has worked together with a number of its key clients to organise a Pre K2004 Press Briefing event.
In the course of three days the following companies presented themselves:
Click on the links above to visit the company pages on PressReleaseFinder. Below you will find over 40 related press releases issued at the event.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces a range of high performance hydrolysis resistant products to meet demanding water regulations
Brussels, June 8, 2004 - Rhodia Engineering Plastics have developed new grades based on Polyamide 6.6 that have been approved by regulatory authorities (WRAS, DVGW) for use in applications where there is contact with drinkable water. These grades show an excellent resistance to hydrolysis and are specifically designed for use in heating systems, electro-valve bodies and similar applications.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches Technyl RTM: Performance and Innovation for the Rotomolding Industry
Brussels, June 8, 2004 - Rhodia Engineering in close collaboration with key players in the Rotomolding industry plastics has developed Technyl RTM, a new alternative for large part production in Polyamide.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics reinforces its position in the E&E market with an innovative range of halogen and red phosphorous-free flame retardant compounds
Brussels, June 8, 2004 - Rhodia Engineering Plastics, a world leader in Polyamide resins and compounds continues to demonstrate its dedication to one of the fastest growing market segment, the Electric and Electronic market.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces a new polyamide 66 specifically designed to meet the demands of thermoplastic engine rocker covers
Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced the launch of a new polyamide 66 grade offering a unique combination of thermal and mechanical properties along with good surface aspect and productivity gains that makes it an ideal choice for automotive engine rocker covers.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for Water Injection Technology (WIT)
Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for water injected cooling pipes:
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces new polyamide materials which offer significantly improved acoustic performance
Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced the launch of two new polyamide grades offering acoustic performance that is superior to traditional engineering plastics. These new grades offer more than 4dB improvement versus other engineering plastics such as glass reinforced PP or PA.
25 Oct 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics develops specific expertise in conductivity technology and launches a new pure polyamide solution for on-line painting of automotive vertical body panels
Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced it has developed specific expertise in conductivity technology allowing the creation of new products for exterior body panels. The first product introduction is a new grade specifically designed to meet the critical technical requirements for automotive vertical body panels - Technyl® A 238P5 M25.
20 Oct 2004
GMT AND GMTexTM FROM QUADRANT PLASTIC COMPOSITES FORGE NEW AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS, INCREASING MARKET POTENTIAL
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – Glass mat thermoplastics (GMT) are used in the automotive industry for manufacturing semi-structural and structural components which have to satisfy the highest crash safety standards for the protection of passengers and pedestrians. GMT’s high impact resistance, good fatigue and low creep characteristics have forged new applications where manufacturers need to meet cost targets and add function integration to their products. As the world’s leading GMT manufacturer, Quadrant Plastic Composites cooperates closely with the automotive industry and system suppliers in developing new component concepts for future generations of vehicles.
20 Oct 2004
PROVIDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FROM FLUOROPLASTICS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – Fluoroplastics are well known under the Teflon brand name and most people are familiar with it as giving non-sticky properties in pans for household use. However, what many people do not know is that fluoroplastics find a much wider use in many industrial and non-industrial applications, having remarkable temperature, purity, high chemical and corrosion resistance properties that provide high performing, cost-efficient solutions for applications in industries like semiconductors, chemical processing, environmental and energy management or oil exploration. Under the SYMALIT brand name, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products offers a number of fluoroplastics including plain sheets, fabric backed lining sheets, films, rods, and other forms made of materials such as PVDF, ECTFE, ETFE, FEP, MFA or PFA, all of which are fluoroplastics with distinctive performance qualities.
20 Oct 2004
SymaLITE COMPOSITES OFFER LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – It has been a banner year for Quadrant Plastic Composites’ SymaLITE products. Since the lightweight composite’s commercial launch just over a year ago, it has earned the prestigious Innovation Award in 2003 for new plastics applications from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and it has also delivered concrete solutions to several automotive designs.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT CREATIVE MOULDING & SYSTEMS PROVIDES THE MEDICAL MARKET WITH A FULL RANGE OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING SERVICES
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – In addition to the usual challenges of designing, manufacturing and bringing new products to market, designers and manufacturers of medical technology also confront stringent industrial and biocompatibility standards for their products. As an integrated injection moulder and an established supplier to medical markets, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) can provide the expertise and resources to the manufacture of plastics components and sub-assemblies from development through the production of prototypes to the end product.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT CREATIVE MOULDING & SYSTEMS DEVELOPS INJECTION MOULDING TECHNOLOGY FOR ERTALYTE TX MATERIAL
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) has developed technology to injection mould Ertalyte TX PET-P. This new commercial capability enables Quadrant to offer its customers Ertalyte TX products in large cost effective series and more flexible designs.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT KEY TO AIR SPRINGS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Delivering a combination of product development, production and assembly of subsystems from a single source, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) is a key partner with numerous first-tier suppliers to the automotive industry. Quadrant lends expertise and resources to customers’ design and manufacturing efforts, enabling its partners to leverage high-precision moulded parts for safety, electrical, under-the-bonnet and interior automotive applications.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT CMS EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN HUNGARY AND BELGIUM
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (CMS) will start production operations in Budapest, Hungary, to meet emerging demands. The move will free space at Quadrant CMS’s facilities in Tielt (Belgium) and enable the company to add 2 K (2 Components) moulding capability to its offering both in Tielt (B) and Budapest (H).
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ TECHTRON PPS OPTIMIZES PERFORMANCE, MINIMIZES COSTS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) provides semiconductor equipment manufacturers with a broad portfolio of proven, high-performance, machinable plastics that continue to fuel innovative better manufacturing tools while minimizing the overall cost of ownership.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTIC LENDS A LITTLE MUSCLE TO BOWFLEX POWER ROD® TECHNOLOGY
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Body builders, like engineers, desire maximum performance for the lowest cost. The Bowflex Ultimate and Extreme™ 2 models, among the best selling home gym equipment in the U.S., delivers a cost/performance ratio that both engineers and home fitness enthusiasts can appreciate. Nautilus, the machines’ manufacturer, delivered the goods with help from Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP), who provided engineering thermoplastics and design expertise for the equipment’s development.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS EXTENDS BENEFITS OF REACTION INJECTION MOULDING TO NYLON MATERIALS
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Low-pressure moulding methods, such as reaction injection moulding (RIM), have extended the economies and design benefits of injection moulding to applications once limited by mould cost, volume or processing challenges. Now, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) is extending the benefits of Low Pressure Casting (LPC) to nylon-based materials.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ KETRON® PEEK-1000MATERIAL DELIVERS DIMENSIONAL AND TEMPERATURE STABILITY TO H&O EQUIPMENTS CRYOPEN®
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products’ (QEPP) materials delivered critical performance properties to a cryo therapy instrument developed by the Belgium firm, H&O Equipments (www.ho-equipments.com). The device is called a CryoPen® and it freezes localized sections of human tissue, thereby destroying them while keeping the tissue’s fiber structure.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ MATERIALS DELIVER LIGHT-WEIGHT PERFORMANCE TO LIFE OPTICS’ HEAD-MOUNTED SURGICALVISION SYSTEM
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – When Life Optics needed a lightweight but durable engineered plastic machined component to replace the aluminum parts in its head-mounted surgical vision system, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) provided multiple material solutions to meet Life Optics’ high-performance specifications. QEPP’s stock shapes provide unique benefit in terms of lightweight strength and stiffness as well as excellent resistance to chemicals and wear to Life Optic’s high-end M5 surgical Varioscope.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS DEVELOPS NEW STOCK SHAPES SPECIFICALLY FOR MEDICAL, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETS
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) has introduced a portfolio of stock shapes designed specifically for machined components used in life science equipment such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices. As a principal benefit, the new products allow Quadrant to extend full traceability and biocompatibility testing from raw materials to its stock shapes.
20 Oct 2004
Recovery trend continues in first half year
Zurich, August 27, 2004, 7.15 a.m. – In the first half of 2004 Quadrant reported net sales of 247.1 million Swiss francs, compared with 205.4 million Swiss francs in the first half of 2003.
20 Oct 2004
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS LAUNCHES COMPLETE MATERIALS OFFERING FOR FOOD PROCESSING, PACKAGING INDUSTRIES
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) has unveiled a complete line of Food Compliant Materials (FCM). The new materials are designed to provide superior performance for machined plastic parts used in food and beverage processing and packaging equipment in food-product contact. These Quadrant materials are also suitable for machined non-direct-food-contact-compliant applications such as shields, wall, and ceilings in food processing operations where cleanliness is an important issue.
13 Aug 2004
Ambicat™ MB60 and BorPEX™ ME2510 innovations offer unique benefits for silane PEX heating pipes
Ambicat™ MB60 catalyst system by Borealis has added a new dimension to the manufacture of silane PEX pipe for domestic hot and cold water pressure pipes. Using the new catalyst, in combination with Borealis’ new base material, BorPEX™ ME2510, silane crosslinking can be achieved at ambient temperature within a few days for typical plumbing and heating pipes. This represents significant cost and time savings compared with the regular high density (HD)-PEX using a traditional catalyst, where crosslinking cannot be achieved at room temperature in a practical time.
10 Aug 2004
Borealis creates new zero-gap Daplen™ grades for BMW Series 1 bumpers and rocker panels
BMW Group, seeking a zero-gap thermoplastic for its BMW Series 1 bumpers and rocker panels, turned to Borealis to create a material for its needs. BMW wanted easily moulded parts that presented a paintable, Class A surface with an extremely small gap between car body and part. At the same time, the parts had to be strong enough to meet or exceed impact specifications. On top of all this, the material had to be recyclable to conform to end-of-life requirements. By formulating application-specific Daplen thermoplastic polyolefins (TPOs) to meet BMW’s requirements, Borealis provided the carmaker with a multi-faceted solution for its high-design, high-engineering component needs in time for the Series 1's expected launch later this year.
10 Aug 2004
New opportunities for PE film converters: Borclear™ and Borsoft™ polypropylene
Borealis has developed a range of polypropylene (PP) blown film materials designed for production on conventional blown-film machinery traditionally used for polyethylene.
10 Aug 2004
New Borealis polypropylene film grades for medical applications
Borealis has developed a range of new innovative polypropylene grades for extruded film applications such as medical pouches and monoblister packaging as an alternative to polyvinyl chloride (PVC), glass, and other polymers. They offer low migration into medical products and liquids and provide high security and integrity during transportation and handling.
10 Aug 2004
New Borealis biaxially oriented polypropylene reduces weight and improves transparency of plastic bottles
The new Borealis RF926MO polypropylene (PP) injection stretch blow moulding (ISBM) grade provides enhanced performance owing to its biaxial orientation. The new grade can reduce weight by more than 30% compared with extrusion blow-moulded high-density polyethylene (HDPE) grades. The new PP grade provides excellent transparency and gloss levels, can save up to 30 to 50% on energy costs in production, and RF926MO’s processing window is significantly broader than other PP materials.
10 Aug 2004
Automakers adopt new scratch-resistant TPOs from Borealis for car interiors
With the introduction of Borealis thermoplastic olefin grades, (TPOs) EE137AE and EE137HP, Borealis has created an innovative, scratch-resistant injection-moulding compound specifically designed for automotive interiors and similar demanding applications. The scratch-resistant nature of the polypropylene (PP) compounds is the result of engineering as much performance as possible into the base resin while minimising fillers and additives. In addition, the remaining fillers and additives benefit from proprietary formulations to further enhance properties of the new grades.
6 Aug 2004
New HDPE for caps and closures made using the unique bimodal Borstar® process offers greater quality and improved economics for converters
Two new high-density polyethylene (HDPE) grades, based on Borealis’ proprietary Borstar process, have been developed especially by Borealis for beverage caps and closures offering converters greater security, better quality and more favourable economics.
6 Aug 2004
Borstar® PE materials bring added value to the utility and industrial pipe sectors
Since its introduction, polyethylene (PE) from Borealis’ proprietary Borstar® process has set the industry standard for pipeline construction in technical performance and delivered value to the pipe producers, pipeline installers, operators and end users.
27 Jul 2004
New single-site catalyst polyethylene from Borealis for packaging film
Two new families of single-site catalysts (SSC) polyethylene (PE) from Borealis, based on unimodal and Borealis’ bimodal Borstar® technology, have been designed to create new packaging options for all major segments of the fast-growing SSC PE market. With Borecene®, Borealis marks its entry into the unimodal SSC LLDPE blown and cast film market. The bi-modal SSC BorPlus™ offers uniquely superior processability.
18 Jul 2004
Eastman Spectar® sheet provides affordable, yet high-end furniture design
When Brazilian designer Lars Diederichsen needed a material for the new chair he was designing, he looked for something beautiful, easy to work with, and reasonably priced. He chose Spectar® copolyester from Eastman Chemical Company, and the result was his creative “Giro” chair.
7 Jul 2004
NEW HIGH FLOW STANYL® GRADE FROM DSM HANDLES
DSM Engineering Plastics announces the availability of a new grade of high-flow Stanyl® polyamide 46 (PA46) designed for elements of aircraft jet engines. Stanyl 46HF4130 is a 30-percent glass-fibre-reinforced compound that was initially developed for use in the intake portion of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine, engineered for noise reduction and minimum environmental impact. The engine uses 50 panels with highly complex geometry to minimize noise through a complex section of the engine duct, benefiting from Stanyl’s high strength and moldability.
11 Jun 2004
Pre K2004 Press Pack Rhodia Engineering Plastics
Pre-K Press Kit Rhodia Engineering Plastics
11 Jun 2004
Rhodia Engineering Plastics’ New TECHNYL® ALLOY PA/ABS Now Used for Center Instrument Panel Fascia on GM-Daewoo Kalos Sedan
Brussels, June 8 2004 – Rhodia’s recently introduced TECHNYL® ALLOY PA/ABS is currently being used for interior automotive applications, where its robust property profile, combined with ease of processability makes it an attractive alternative vs. traditional Polycarbonate (PC), PC/ABS and PC/PBT material alternatives. TECHNYL® ALLOY is currently used as the material for a high performance center instrument panel fascia for GM/DAEWOO new Kalos Sedan, which is now in production in South Korea.
11 Jun 2004
Rhodia’s vision and approach to serving customer needs in the automotive market . . . customer intimacy at each step of the value-chain
Brussels, June 8 2004 – Rhodia’s approach to the automotive market can be summed up as follows: serve the customer’s needs intimately at each step of the value-chain. Today, Rhodia providies solutions to car manufacturers and tier-one suppliers in their quest for globalization, world-wide manufacturing, innovation and speed to market.
10 Jun 2004
Vyncolit introduces the next generation of mouldable carbon fibre composites
Vyncolit N.V., a market leader in engineering phenolics, has announced the development of Vyntec, a phenolic-based carbon fibre reinforced composite that sets a new industry standard for material performance in metal replacement applications.
9 Jun 2004
Borealis 2004 innovations for Wire & Cable: Materials for high productivity, lower costs, better performance
The first half of 2004 has been marked by four innovations from Borealis for the wire and cable industry:
9 Jun 2004
Borealis, one of the world’s leading plastics suppliers
Borealis is a leading supplier of enhanced polyolefin plastics - polyethylene and polypropylene - producing more than 3.5 million tonnes per year.
9 Jun 2004
Husky offers complete in-mold labeling solution
Global demand for complete in-mold labeling solutions for thinwall container and lid packaging is growing at double-digit rates.
9 Jun 2004
Husky develops breakthrough flip-top lid system
The wet wipes market is booming. And so, too, is the production of plastic containers and lids for the disposable cleaning cloths.
9 Jun 2004
HyPET is the next generation in preform systems
Husky Injection Molding Systems continues to strengthen its leading position in providing PET solutions with its new HyPET systems. The systems are highly flexible platforms that use single-face molds and feature new cooling and handling technologies.
9 Jun 2004
Husky’s new Shanghai Technical Centre helps global customers optimise Asian presence
Husky Injection Molding Systems is positioning its new state-of-the-art Shanghai Technical Centre to provide world-class sales and service support for global manufacturers and processors of plastics parts with operations in China.
Husky Pre-K press briefing Brussels June 9, 2004 
Vyncolit Pre-K press briefing Brussels June 7, 2004