An extensive new addition to the Nordson Corporation website focuses exclusively on the company’s polymer processing range of melt stream components for compounders, processors, converters, and recyclers. The site is designed for ...
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, was the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures Series sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems ...
A group of researchers have developed Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany have developed a self healing tire which can repair cut and tear on its own. Amit Das and his colleagues at the German research institute ...
In booth #702 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (28-30 September), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of high-speed semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
Tags: GigOptix, optical modules, modulator, transceivers
Axalta Coating Systems will showcase its Harmonized Coating Technologies, a consolidated coating system, in China at the SURCAR 2015 automotive body finishing show in Shanghai. Combining latest generation waterborne coatings with ...
Tags: Axalta Coating Systems, Harmonized Coating, waterborne coatings
Covestro, a global polymer materials supplier, has a new identity. From September 1, 2015, Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 percent ...
Tags: Adhesive, polymer materials
There is a large and growing use for latex coatings and the emulsion polymerization process used to manufacture them. Ethox Chemicals has announced the recent issuance of a patent covering important improvements to this process. The US ...
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) has announced the finalists for the 2015 Polyurethane Innovation Award, selecting innovations created by Dow Chemical, Honeywell and Novomer. Since its inception in 2005, the Polyurethane ...
The study and development of atomically thin coatings will be the focus of a one of a kind National Science Foundation funded university/industry center. Led by Penn State, in collaboration with Rice University in Houston, the ...
Tags: thin coatings, nanoscale coating
China's surprise devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday, when the country's central bank set the official value of the renminbi about 2% weaker against the dollar, has not hit the petrochemicals complex in a significant way, industry ...
Tags: polymer, carbide PVC
PPG Industries’ coil and building products group has introduced DURAFORM™ BP coating, a next-generation polyester coil coating engineered specifically for building product manufacturers. Designed for one-coat application over ...
Tags: BP coating, coil coating, Polyester Coatings
Carton and leaflet manufacturer Chester Medical Solutions has installed a digital carton printer for Braille, claimed to be the first-of-its-kind in the UK. The new device, installed in the firm's manufacturing facility in Deeside, ...
Tags: Digital Carton Printer, Printer
Researchers at the Stockholm University in Sweden have developed pacakging from films of zeolite and nanocellulose, that can remove the odor emanating from food items, such as durian. The films have the potential to absorb the gas ...
Tags: Packaging Film, food items
US-based flexible packaging products maker Bemis Company has inked a pact for the acquisition of South American rigid plastic packaging business of Brazilian firm Emplal Participa. The transaction, contingent upon customary closing ...
Consumer healthcare firm EM Pharma has deployed two TrakRap stretch wrapping packaging systems, capable of using 100% recyclable polymer film. The trays in the system, developed by secondary packaging firm TrakRap, deploy ReelVision ...