According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Kusumgar, Nerlfi&Growney, Construction
Evonik has invested in its German operations with new large-scale industrial plants, capacity expansions, and new research centers. The company plans to invest some two billion Euros of the extensive investment program it has developed as ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
GIA has released a comprehensive global report on Polymeric Polyols markets. Global market for Polymeric Polyols is forecast to reach 33.1 billion pounds (lbs.) by 2020, driven by growing demand for polyurethane in the automobile, ...
Tags: Polyols, polyurethane, Decoration
WACKER POLYMERS is to raise its prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the VINNAPAS and VINNOL brand in the regions Americas and Greater China. As customer contracts allow, effective ...
Tags: WACKER POLYMERS, Dispersions, Textile
According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
If you are going to interpack, you can also be part of the AIPIA and ITENE team that creates an effective roadmap to fight food waste at all stages in the supply chain. APIA and Spanish research centre, ITENE's, presentation in the ...
RoHS directive to exclude the contents of the original February 12, 2003 e Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1) 1. Mercury in compact fluorescent ...
Tags: RoHS certification, certification, RoHS
Allnex, among the leading suppliers in coating resins and additives, will exhibit and highlight its latest technologies at the American Coatings Show (ACS) 2014, from April 8-10, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, ...
Tags: coating resins, additives, Construction
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
Tags: Hybrid Fuel Cell, Electricity
In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a surprising replacement for the only ...
Tags: UNC, PFPE, Ion Battery, team
Sodium-ion batteries offer an attractive alternative to Li-ion batteries not because they outperform Li-ion batteries, but mainly because of lower costs due to the the nearly unlimited supply of sodium. They are also an attractive ...
Tags: Li-ion batteries, ACS Nano, 2-D materials
The German based company, a developer and manufacturer of polymer optics received a transfer project with a production volume in the mid six-figure range. The company is demonstrating once again that it has the knowledge and capability for ...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer to study polymers at the Delft University of Technology. Dr. Theo Dingemans is the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ...
Tags: Magritek, NMR, Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer, polymers
The importance of plastic in our everyday life is self evident by the fact that we are surrounded by plastic products all around. Everything starting from a pen, food packet, chair, bottles, containers, etc. is made up of plastic. The ...
Tags: plastic, Coloring Plastics
The Munich-based WACKER Group has developed a new dispersion based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers (VAE) especially for the European carpet market. With VINNAPAS CA 55 as a binder, it is possible to formulate both precoats and ...
Tags: Carpet Market, WACKER