01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals America introduces lower cost one-pack stabilizers
Akcros Chemicals’ ongoing research and development has resulted in the market introduction of two new low cost, one-pack stabilizer systems. The new products, INTERSTAB® T-5172 and INTERSTAB® T-5201, extend the company’s already broad INTERSTAB® product family and are designed to offer greater cost-efficiency in rigid PVC applications, without any compromises in performance.
01-06-2001
Akcros Chemicals chooses K2001 to exhibit under Akzo Nobel banner for the first time
Akcros Chemicals will be exhibiting under the banner of its parent company, Akzo Nobel, for the first time since mid-1998 when they agreed to purchase the remaining fifty-percent of the joint venture from its partner Elementis.
01-06-2001
Axxicon launches the “horizontal” AIM™ Mould System
Based on 12 years experience and feedback from customers world wide, Axxicon has launched the “horizontal” AIM Mould System (see picture). Besides the existing advantages (ie quick-change, flexible, safe) the “horizontal” AIM Mould System has following additonal advantages:
31-05-2001
Engel Automatisierungstechnik: une croissance dynamique – axée sur la productivité
Les appareils de manutention et les robots constituent aujourd’hui des « biens d’utilisation courante » pour les entreprises de production. Qu’il s’agisse, par exemple, d’opérations d’insertion et d’extraction ainsi que de l’approvisionnement de postes de retouches dans le moulage par injection, « l’homme à la machine » est devenu plutôt rare au fil du temps. L’automatisation de processus de fabrication ne permet pas en premier lieu d’économiser des « frais élevés en personnel », mais de garantir la qualité élevée des processus et des produits, indispensable aujourd’hui : les appareils de manutention et les robots fonctionnent à un rythme exact et à
30-05-2001
Développement d’un cache-culasse Technyl pour les moteurs de l'Audi A4 et de la VW Passat
Rhodia Engineering Plastics et Woco Franz Josef Wolf & Co. de Bad Soden-Salmünster en Allemagne ont développé un cache-culasse en polyamide Technyl 218 MT 15 V 25 offrant une réduction du niveau de bruit pour les nouveaux moteurs 75 kW de la Volkswagen Passat et de l'Audi A4.
23-05-2001
ICO Petrochemical Processing Services to exhibit at K for the first time
Leuven, Belgium, May 2001 – ICO Petrochemical Processing Services will be exhibiting for the first time at the K show. ICO will be located at the American Pavilion in Hall 3, Stand 3E79-5 at the industry’s largest international triennial exhibition staged in Düsseldorf, Germany from October 25 to November 1, 2001.
21-05-2001
Continuous turbo mixer for throughput rates of up to 10 tonnes/hour
The hitherto largest continuous turbo mixer – the CTM 500 – has been supplied by the Mixing Technology Division of Thyssen Henschel Industrietechnik GmbH, Kassel/Germany, to the chemical firm of Kaucuk a.s., Kralupy nad Vitavou / Czech Republic, where it is being used for the continuous, high-speed coating of expandable polystyrene (EPS) with wetting and other agents prior to the expansion process. The mixer is capable of a throughput rate of up to 10 tonnes of EPS per hour.
16-05-2001
Akzo Nobel makes strategic investment in polysulfide expansion
Arnhem, the Netherlands, May 16, 2001 – Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives (PPA), operating under the name Akcros Chemicals, the leading global player in the polysulfide market, will invest in a major expansion at its Greiz facility in Germany. Due for completion early in 2002, the expansion will provide additional polysulfide tonnage primarily for use in aerospace sealants and other high-tech, high added value applications.
