19-05-2005
QUADRANT EPP’S NEW CESTIGREEN AST DELIVERS TARGETED SOLUTIONS FOR DEWATERING ELEMENTS IN THE PAPER INDUSTRY
Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP), a world leader in the manufacture of engineering plastics in stock shapes, has introduced CESTIGREEN AST, a new high-performance material designed especially for dewatering elements used by paper mills to dehydrate products during the production cycle.
19-05-2005
New UV9200* Silicone from GE Raises the Bar for Low-Viscosity UV-Cure Polymers Used in Converting Applications
BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — May 19, 2005 — GE Advanced Materials has added a new and unique grade – UV9200* epoxysilicone – to its growing family of UV-cure products, targeting applications in the converting industry. GE’s UV9200 material is among the lowest viscosity reactive silicones available for radiation-cure coating applications.
19-05-2005
L’AZIENDA DI PROGETTAZIONE E STAMPI QUADRANT CMS HA SCELTO AKULON® ULTRAFLOW® PER LE CERNIERE ALTAMENTE RESISTENTI DEI SOLARIUM
La belga Quadrant CMS, una delle principali società europee di progettazione, stampaggio, assemblaggio e logistica, ha scelto la poliammide 6 (PA6) Akulon® UltraFlow® K-FG12 di DSM Engineering Plastics per lo stampaggio dei gruppi cerniera di un solarium per abbronzatura integrale di largo consumo della Philips. Con Akulon PA6 lo stampaggio è molto più rapido, la superficie presenta una rifinitura migliore ed è possibile lavorare con una gamma di colori più ampia rispetto al tradizionale grado PA6 con fibra di vetro a cui si sostituisce.
19-05-2005
ClearTint® di Milliken scelto da Bormioli Rocco per nuove chiusure colorate in PP trasparente
I coloranti polimerici ClearTint® per polipropilene (PP) di Milliken apportano un vantaggio competitivo e distintivo all’imballaggio nell’industria delle bevande. La tecnologia ClearTint mostra come i tappi per bevande, tradizionalmente considerati elementi “commodities”, possano divenire una componente a valore aggiunto nell’estetica delle bottiglie, riproducendo o il colore della bevanda o il colore del marchio nel PP trasparente per migliorare l’effetto sul consumatore e l’immagine della marca.
13-05-2005
Upgraded Web-based support underlines Distrupol’s customer service orientation
Distrupol, a member company of Univar and a leading European polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, has redesigned, revitalised and re-launched its Web site (www.distrupol.com) with more content, more functionality and more user-value.
13-05-2005
Milliken & Company to Exhibit at ChinaPlas 2005
The United States based market leader in additives for plastics Milliken & Company recently announced their participation at Chinaplas 2005, the largest plastics & rubber industry trade show in China, which will be held in Guangzhou from June 21st- 24th. Milliken will use this important trade platform to showcase their product range and highlight key new products for the Chinese market such as their Millad® 3988 clarifying agent for polypropylene (PP) and Hyperform® HPN-68L nucleating agent.
13-05-2005
Univar UK awarded Supplier of the Year by U-POL
13 May, 2005 – U-POL, an international manufacturer and marketer of automotive refinish products, has given its 2004 Premier Supplier award to Univar UK’s Performance Chemicals business unit, based in Cheadle, Manchester.
12-05-2005
GE’s New Anti-Static, Impact-Resistant LNP* Stat-Loy* Compounds Help Enhance Security for Plasmon UDO™ Optical Media
BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — May 12, 2005 — Plasmon, a market leader for professional data archival solutions, designed its cutting-edge UDO™ (Ultra Density Optical) media to be a highly secure archival storage medium for its customers’ valuable electronic data. Part of that security solution stems from Plasmon’s use of new D Series LNP* Stat-Loy* resins from GE Advanced Materials. Used to form the shell of Plasmon’s SLMD2005 UDO media, the Lexan* resin-based LNP compounds contribute an excellent balance of impact performance and resistance to static build-up.
