Following the successful launch this year of KCC Beauty, the latest brand from KCC and Basildon Chemicals, the first SCS Formulate for the new brand was equally successful. The merging of the two silicone brands brings new textures and ...
Tags: personal care, beauty products, KCC, SCS
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and two Japanese companies, namely Zeon Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of an integrated butadiene extraction and elastomer complex in Ras Laffan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Bayer MaterialScience has increased it investment in its production sites for polyether polyols in South Charleston, West Virginia, and Channelview, Texas. Both sites produce polyether polyols - a key component in the development of ...
Tags: Bayer, Health, Medicine, Polyurethane, Polyether Polyol
Applied Silicone Corporation,a global supplier of long-term implantable silicones for the medical device and critical healthcare market, introduces Ultra-Soft LSR (Liquid Silicone Rubber) products for the implantable materials market. ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, critical healthcare market
With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase its selling prices for the following products in Europe: 1,4 Butanediol (BDO) +50 Euro/mt Tetrahydrofuran (THF) +70 Euro/mt Polytetramethylene ether glycol ...
Tags: Butanediol, Derivatives
Driven by increasing demands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, automakers worldwide are in a race to find new ways for improving the fuel efficiency of passenger cars and trucks. Along with more aerodynamic designs and incremental ...
Tags: greenhouse gas, plastics compounds, energy
Plastics brought great convenience to human life, due to its advantage of low cost, strong corrosion resistance, strong plasticity, since the invention of the day it was popular, with processing technology advances and technological ...
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Silicone materials are widely used in Medical applications since from 60 years. Quickly after their Commercial availability in 1946, methylchlorosilanes were described to treat glassware to prevent blood from clotting. An effort was made by ...
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The CSF range of progressive cavity pumps is ideal for transferring a wide variety of products and ingredients or those with suspended solids and particles which often occur in the food, brewing, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. ...
Tags: Pumping, progressive cavity pumps, Delicate Ingredients
If you are wondering what is the difference between Adhesives and glues, you will be surprised how similar they are and yet different in their very own way. Glues have been used for many years by us almost on a daily basis for things that ...
Tags: adhesive, stickiness, advantage, disadvantage
SKF offers the capability to manufacture customized machined seals practically "on demand" to meet exact specifications required by OEM or maintenance-related applications. SKF can supply virtually any type of rotating, reciprocating, or ...
Tags: Seals, Customized Seals, Industrial Equipment, Components
Biobased lactides producer NatureWorks has announced the launch of a new polymer-grade lactide, Ingeo M700. Ingeo M700 is claimed to be rich in meso-lactide and is expected to offer better packaging performance and functionality. The ...
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Dow Polyurethanes has created VORAPEL Moisture and Chemical Repellant Polyols, a novel new family of hydrophobic polyols for applications that require increased moisture and chemical resistance, including infrastructure, secondary ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction Coatings
In a little more than two weeks, the first Future of Tire Technology conference and exhibition will be held Oct. 28-30, 2013, at the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, N.C. The three-day event will be hosted by Smithers Rapra Inc. All the sessions ...
Tags: Tire Technology, Big Thing Theory
Dow Chemical Companywill increase its polyol and copolymer capacity at its Freeport, Texas facilities as a result of debottlenecking. "Dow is constantly evolving our technologies to help our customers grow," said Mark Bassett, global ...
Tags: Dow Chemical, Construction