Automotive
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10 Jun 2010
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Extra-High-Temp Lexan* XHT PC Copolymers Shine Bright Light on Hella’s Automotive Headlamp Designs
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – June 10, 2010 – Hella, a leading Tier 1 auto lighting supplier, has selected SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Lexan* XHT resins to create a metallized headlamp bezel and a clear, ice blue-tinted bezel for two major European car manufacturers. The new high heat polycarbonate (PC) copolymers perform brilliantly in these high-heat headlamp applications, delivering outstanding thermal and color stability, excellent metallization performance and high gloss. Lexan XHT copolymers also provide easy processing and greater design flexibility, enabling Hella to create distinctive lighting and directly meet the need for ultra-high-performance materials to create colored/transparent and metallized headlamp bezels, as well as other cosmetic parts. SABIC Innovative Plastics’ advanced materials technologies for the automotive industry continue to break new ground, helping OEMs and Tiers meet customer demands for exciting style and next-generation performance.
9 Jun 2010
MOOG DRIVING SIMULATOR HEIGHTENS REALITY OF VIRTUAL TEST LAPS FOR FERRARI DRIVERS
AMSTERDAM, June 9, 2010 – Moog Industrial Group a division of Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) and a leader in providing high-performance flight simulation and leading-edge testing systems to the automotive and aerospace markets, has delivered a new testing simulator to Scuderia Ferrari in the Gestione Sportiva at Maranello, Italy.
Lyon, France – June 3, 2010 – Rhodia announces its participation in the K 2010 global engineering plastics trade fair and unveils its latest innovations.
Lyon, France – June 3, 2010 – At a pre-show press conference held in Amsterdam on May 27, dealing with the K 2010 Plastics trade fair scheduled for later in the year, Rhodia unveiled its latest innovations including the announcement of the development of a new polyamide high-performance composite material. 
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – April 29, 2010 – At Chinaplas 2010 in booth W2G41, SABIC Innovative Plastics announced a new portfolio of advanced Noryl* and Valox* automotive resins designed to help customers create alternative power train solutions by displacing weight and increasing performance for hybrid, plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery electric vehicles (BEV). This announcement clearly answers the call to cut fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide in favor of cleaner, better and more economical and environmentally responsible propulsion systems. In addition to helping usher in a new era of greener powertrain technologies, SABIC Innovative Plastics’ new materials offer OEMs superior impact strength, toughness, high-temperature resistance and other high-performance properties vs. competitive materials to give these manufactures a huge edge in the high-stakes global automotive arena.
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