GE Joins Forces with ASC Incorporated to Help Offer New Lifestyle Choices to Automotive Consumers with ‘Sunvertibles’

Sliding Roof System from ASC Featuring GE’s Lexan* GLX PC Resin and Exatec® 900vt

GE has joined forces with ASC Incorporated to help offer new lifestyle choices to automotive consumers with “sunvertibles,” a new concept that features a panoramic sliding-roof system made with GE’s Lexan* GLX resin and Exatec® 900vt. This advanced, new automotive technology – whose advantages include superior design flexibility to promote creativity and part consolidation; light weight to boost fuel economy; and excellent impact resistance for occupant safety – made its debut at the North American International Auto Show. The new GE and ASC collaboration represents the latest in cutting-edge innovations for high-image specialty vehicles as well as more mainstream vehicle systems.BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — January 10, 2006 — At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) here, GE - Plastics announced a new collaboration with specialty-vehicle company ASC Incorporated, showcasing the first results of a joint effort to give car buyers unique and exciting factory-installed options to suit their lifestyles. ASC’s patent-pending, bi-directional InfiniVu™ “open-air” sliding-roof system, which is incorporated into a prototype minivan dubbed the ASC TriLite, features GE’s Lexan* GLX polycarbonate (PC) resin for style, safety, and weight savings. This application marks the first time, worldwide, this GE technology has been showcased in a panoramic automotive roof system – a technology whose advantages include design flexibility to promote creativity and part consolidation; light weight to boost fuel economy; and impact resistance for occupant safety. The new collaboration between GE and ASC, announced today, offers ASC additional cutting-edge innovations for its high-image specialty vehicles as well as its more mainstream vehicle systems, such as open-air roof systems.

La nouvelle solution Borealis d’emballage transparent à parois minces limite les déchets

Des emballages plus légers et solides avec le RJ470MO
(Photo: Tontarelli Group)Borealis lance une nouvelle solution pour l’emballage transparent, à parois minces, qui répond à une diversité d’exigences : meilleure visibilité du produit, alliance de légèreté et de solidité, facilité d’empilement, enfin fonctions intégrées pour la simplicité d'emploi et la résistance à l'ouverture intempestive.

英邁艾默生聯合巡展,英邁凸顯行業分銷能力

Ingram Micro中國上海 – 2006年1月6日 – 近日,英邁剛剛完成其與艾默生聯合舉行的第三場巡展。同上兩場在北京和廣州舉行的一樣,此次在成都的巡展同樣大獲成功。通過這一大型市場活動,英邁向業界展示出其行業分銷能力。

TYCO AMP ABANDONNE UN LCP AU PROFIT D’UN PA46 STANYL® HIGH FLOW POUR REDUIRE LE COÛT ET LA TENDANCE AU GAUCHISSEMENT DE SES CONNECTEURS DE CARTE PC

Le grade 46HF 5040 de polyamide 4,6 (PA46) Stanyl® a été choisi pour la fabrication d’un connecteur de carte PCMCIA (carte PC) où il se distingue par un gain sur le coût global de la pièce à laquelle il confère de meilleurs propriétés mécaniques et l’absence de gauchissement.Pour injecter ses connecteurs de carte PCMCIA (carte PC), le fabricant de composants électroniques Tyco Amp Den Bosch est passé d’un polymère cristal liquide (LCP) au polyamide 4,6 Stanyl®, ce qui lui a permis de gagner sur le coût global des pièces, d’en améliorer les propriétés mécaniques et d’obtenir une très faible tendance au gauchissement. Le Stanyl 46HF 5040, un grade à haute fluidité, égale sans problème les propriétés d’écoulement du LCP et permet de reproduire facilement la fine géométrie des connecteurs tout en procurant des propriétés mécaniques supérieures, aspect très important de l’application.

Distrupol delivers DSM’s Sarlink® TPV resin for tough Audi under-bonnet application

Distrupol delivers DSM’s Sarlink® TPV resin for tough Audi under-bonnet applicationAs a leading European polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, Distrupol plays an active role in supporting moulders and OEMs through all stages of application development. A demonstration of this has been its successful partnering with UK automotive moulder, P&D Manufacturing in the development of an under- bonnet heat shield in thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) resin for the Audi A4 and Audi A6 models.

Rhodia Polyamide announces price rise for its STABAMID® Polyamide 66 resins to address unprecedented level of energy and raw materials costs

Rhodia Engineering PlasticsLyon, France, January 4, 2006 – Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price increase for its STABAMID® Polyamide 66, effective immediately. STABAMID® prices will rise in Europe by 100 € / MT and in Asia by 120 USD / MT. This necessary price adjustment results from the unprecedented high level of costs for energy, particularly gas, as well as for raw materials such as Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac.

Rhodia Polyamide announces price increase for Adipic Acid to counterbalance steep rise in energy (gas) and raw material costs (Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac)

Rhodia Engineering PlasticsLyon, France, January 4, 2006 – Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price rise for Adipic Acid effective immediately. The new price reflects an increase of 130 € / MT in Europe and 150 USD / MT in Asia. Underlying this need for price adjustment is the unprecedented rise in the costs of energy, particularly gas, and raw materials such as Benzene, Cyclohexane and Ammoniac.

DSM Engineering Plastics lance le Stanyl® 46SF5030

DSM Engineering MaterialsDSM Engineering Plastics a ajouté un nouveau grade à son portefeuille de polyamides 46 Stanyl® commercialisés dans le monde entier. Sous l’appellation Stanyl 46SF5030, ce grade est le premier d’une nouvelle gamme – les Stanyl Super Flow – spécialement mise au point pour le secteur des connecteurs, pour lequel DSM répond aux exigences liées aux connecteurs de nouvelle génération et enrichit son offre déjà très complète des produits destinés au marché des connecteurs.