25-06-2008
Next-Generation Noryl GTX* Resins “Close the Gap” on Large Automotive Thermoplastic Body Panels
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – June 25, 2008 – As steel prices go up, SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Noryl GTX* family of resins continue to go global by “closing the gap” on large automotive parts with the launch of its new next-generation conductive Noryl GTX PPO/polyamide resin. The company’s new Noryl GTX resin delivers 25 percent lower coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) than previous grades, enabling higher-precision gap management for automotive body panels, at the same time helping to reduce overall vehicle weight. SABIC Innovative Plastics’ investment in high-performance materials solutions such as sheet-metal replacement technologies provides automotive suppliers and OEMs with innovative solutions for improving quality and reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
24-06-2008
CHEMTURA AND TECHNO-PU.MA ANNOUNCE JOINT AGREEMENT FOR INTEGRATED SERVICES TO POLYURETHANE MARKET
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) and Techno-PU.MA s.r.l have entered into a Joint Cooperation Agreement, combining Chemtura‘s expertise in high performance castable polyurethanes with PU.MA expertise in meter mixing machines. Their objective is to provide an integrated marketing and technical service approach to customers in the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) region.
24-06-2008
Dennis de Haese wordt partner bij Amrop International in Brussel, één van de grootste executive search organisaties
Amrop International, onderdeel van de wereldwijde Amrop Hever Group, maakt met genoegen bekend dat Dennis de Haese als nieuwste partner is aangetreden ter versterking van het team in België.
24-06-2008
Borouge helps secure fresh water to every house in Malkapur village, India
Through their Water for the World™ initiative Borouge and Borealis, leading providers of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, are helping the State of Maharashtra in India to supply drinking water 24 hours per day, seven days a week to the residents of Malkapur village, 400km south of Mumbai.
24-06-2008
Suggar’s washing machines clean up the competition with stylish, transparent top doors featuring Polypropylene clarified with Milliken’s Millad® NX8000
Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, today announced that Suggar, a leading appliance maker in Brazil producing 2,500 washing machines a day, is using polypropylene (PP) clarified with Millad® NX8000 to replace styrene acrylonitrile (SAN) in three of its most popular washer models: the Top Max 5.0, the Viva, and the Viva Max 6.0. By upgrading the existing washer top doors to PP clarified with Millad NX8000, which delivers previously unattainable levels of clarity, Suggar has provided the transparency that customers desire while significantly improving impact resistance for better durability. Further, due to lower density, the clarified PP is equivalent in cost to the SAN resin.
23-06-2008
CHEMTURA EXPANDS EUROPEAN TECHNICAL SERVICE LABORATORY FOR GROWTH IN POLYURETHANES
Chemtura Corporation’s Performance Specialties business has completed a substantial expansion at its European regional Technical Service laboratory—an investment to support further growth of its range of Adiprene®/Vibrathane® polyurethane prepolymers. The newly refurbished and upgraded laboratory is located at Chemtura’s European manufacturing plant in Latina, Italy, where it produces Adiprene®, Vibrathane® & Ribbon Flow® TDI and MDI prepolymers, Adiprene® Low Free TDI prepolymers and Vibracure® curatives.
19-06-2008
Efficast® Masks Offers Gold Standard in Patient Immobilization for Radiation Therapy
JERICHO, N.Y. - 19 June 2008 – Orfit Industries America today announced the expansion of its North American operations to give hospital-based and freestanding cancer centers faster access to their high-precision patient immobilization systems which use Efficast® thermoplastic masks. The company, whose technology is used in 75 percent of European radiation therapy facilities, is rapidly expanding in North America to meet demand for its products. Radiation therapy clinicians and radiation therapists who wish to improve treatment outcomes and increase patient comfort are upgrading to the superior immobilization performance and ease of use of Efficast masks.
19-06-2008
CHEMTURA TO INCREASE WESTON®, MARK®, AND NAUGARD® PHOSPHITE PRICES
Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) will increase the price of Weston®, Mark®, and Naugard® phosphite antioxidants and stabilizers by $0.40-$0.60/kg, effective for all deliveries on or after June 10, 2008, or as contracts allow. The price increase is necessary to recover the unprecedented increases in the costs of phosphorus-based chemicals.
