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27 Sept 2007
HONG KONG POLICE SELECTS BODY ARMOR MADE WITH DYNEEMA® UD FOR PROTECTION AGAINST STEEL CORE AMMUNITION
URMOND (NL), 27 September 2007 - DSM Dyneema today announced that the Hong Kong police force is using body armor made with Dyneema® SB21 unidirectional (UD) composite for protection against steel core ammunition. The bullet-resistant vests are the first soft ballistics to meet the required level of protection of the Hong Kong police force; conventional vests utilize hard-pressed panels or metal. Dyneema® SB21 UD offers a unique combination of stopping power, light weight and flexibility to this body armor, which incorporates ballistic packs manufactured by Chongqing Jinguan New Technology Co. under the close supervision of Techcom Security Technology Limited of Hong Kong. Intellectual property protection has been obtained to guard this unique body armor.
10 Sept 2007
SABIC Innovative Plastics and General Motors’ Successful Collaboration Leads to Debuts of Opel Flextreme & Chevrolet Volt at 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show
At the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA), SABIC Innovative Plastics (formerly GE Plastics) will celebrate the unveiling of the OPEL Flextreme and Chevrolet Volt concepts, illustrating lightweight polymer material innovations that complement the E-Flex architecture and showcase energy-saving transparent window glazings and lightweight body panel technologies.
His Highness Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thenayan Al-Saud, Chairman of the Board of SABIC and Louis Ufkes, employee with the longest years of service at the Bergen op Zoom site of SABIC Innovative Plastics, unveiled a monument to inaugurate the new company name in Bergen op Zoom.
Milliken & Company, widely acknowledged as a world leader in textile innovations, has rebranded MFT, its 100% polypropylene (PP) thermoplastic composite, as Tegris™.
WIXOM, MICHIGAN — August 27, 2007 — Exatec, LLC announces that GE Plastics has agreed to acquire Bayer MaterialScience's share of the Exatec joint venture, which provides advanced glazing systems to the automotive industry.
Highly-durable PE100 water pipes from Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, have helped to supply safe, clean drinking water for residents of Pudong in Shanghai. The use of pipes produced with BorSafe® HE3490-LS is a long-lasting alternative to the previous high-maintenance leaking iron pipe network. According to the United Nations, water conservation is one of the most urgent global challenges facing society today.