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4 Mar 2008
阿諾德新工藝流程實現緊固件的高潔淨度
（2008年3月4日，上海) 世界領先的緊固件生產商阿諾德公司近日宣佈，為滿足市場上對“技術潔淨度”日益增高的要求，公司與Fraunhofer研究所緊密合作，重新定義了新的工藝流程，以滿足緊固技術對潔淨度的要求。在過去，人們關注的更多的是對零部件的整體潔淨度要求。而今天，阿諾德首次將這種要求進行了細化。並相應在自己建立的檢驗實驗室中針對性地編制了檢驗規範。該規範定義了在生産環節中以及整個供應鏈過程中對部件的潔淨度要求。
3 Mar 2008
Hyundai and SABIC Innovative Plastics Honored with iF Product Design Award 2008 for QarmaQ Advanced Technology Demonstration Vehicle
HANNOVER, Germany – March 3, 2008 – The Hyundai QarmaQ Advanced Technology Demonstration Vehicle (ATDV) has been selected as a winner of the International Forum (iF) Product Design Awards 2008 for Advanced Studies, which honors experimental drafts of products and studies that have not yet been implemented. Hyundai Motor Europe and SABIC Innovative Plastics, co-developers of the QarmaQ, jointly won the award, which is being presented today at the Hannover, Germany Exhibition Grounds. For 54 years, the iF design award has served as an internationally recognized trademark for outstanding design. This award attests to the effectiveness of SABIC Innovative Plastics’ strategy of working side-by-side with customers to help them deliver business success.
ST. LOUIS – As China has emerged as one of the world’s largest markets for plastic and rubber products, Solutia Inc., has responded by further enhancing its product availability, customer support and commercial and technical services to meet the ever-increasing demands of its Vydyne PA66™ products in China. 
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, announces the creation of a Science and Technology Advisory Board to provide further impetus to its step change in innovation programme. The new board’s activities will be coordinated by Walter Kadl, a former Board Member of Borealis, and will comprise well respected experts in the field of plastics, namely Professor Paolo Galli, Professor Manfred Raetzsch, and Professor Hans-Gerhard Fritz. The board will focus on catalyst, process and application driven research and development.
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, will demonstrate the award-winning benefits of its pioneering polypropylene (PP) solutions to key decision makers in the automotive industry at the VDI “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” International Conference from March 5-6, 2008 in Mannheim, Germany. 
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) recently reported record sales for the fourth quarter of $2.9 billion, surpassing the prior year’s fourth quarter results by 15 percent. Fourth quarter net income was $200 million, or $1.21 per share, and was comprised of net income from continuing operations of $193 million, or $1.17 per share, and income from discontinued operations, net of tax, of $7 million, or 4 cents per share. Fourth quarter earnings per share from continuing operations represents a 30-percent increase over the prior year’s quarter. 