Thierry Le Hénaff, Arkema’s Chairman and CEO, inaugurated Arkema’s first R&D Center in China on Thursday October 17 on the Changshu industrial site in the presence of the Chinese authorities. At the cutting edge of ...
PPG Industries' commercial coatings group has launched AUE-370YL, a key addition to its family of CPC/LIC (Commercial Performance Coatings/Light Industrial Coatings) high-hiding yellow resin bases. AUE-370YL is a yellow tint base intended ...
Teijin Limited announced today the launch of Sereebo, a new brand for carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTP) which the company envisions will be used in green products that revolutionize manufacturing with enhanced production speed ...
At the end of August, the last of the total of four production plants for TROSIFOL polyvinyl butyral (PVB) film were linked up to the new Mowital raw materials warehouse (PVB resin). The first plant has been supplied from there since the ...
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Wilsonart has announced an agreement to acquire Durcon, a manufacturer of laboratory-grade work surfaces. The Taylor, TX-based Durcon provides laboratory tops, student tabletops, sinks and other work surfaces worldwide, and is best known ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Allnex has completed the acquisition of Bayer MaterialScience's Desmolux product range. With the acquisition of the Desmolux product range from Bayer MaterialScience, Allnex gains urethane acrylate, dual cure resin and polyester/polyether ...
TricorBraun, a leading packaging provider of rigid packaging and engineering solutions, announces that it led the packaging commercialization for Hello Products, the first ever line of seriously friendly oral care. TricorBraun, along with ...
Bioplastics are emerging as viable alternatives to petroleum-based polymers. This quiet revolution goes well beyond the standard drivers for sustainably sourced and/or compostable materials. I attended the 2013 BioPlastek conference in San ...
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PPG Industries’ coil and extrusion coatings group has published the Architectural Liquid & Powder Coatings Color Guide, an eight-page brochure featuring 90 colors of liquid and powder coatings categorized by product code, brand name ...
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Allnex introduces new UCECOAT 7210 waterborne UV resin. This product offers a wide blending range with Allnex’s UCECOAT 7200 waterborne UV resin to produce super hardcoats with tailor‐made flexibility. Formulations based on ...
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PPG Industries will exhibit its entire collection of architectural and industrial powder coatings at Powder Coating 2013, a trade show sponsored by the Powder Coating Institute (PCI), Oct. 8-10 in St. Louis. Visitors to booth 217 will ...
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The LED industry after entering into the lighting era still continues to face pressure to lower prices. LED manufacturers have thus begun competitively pushing their way into package free chip development. Manufacturers like Philips ...
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Biopolymers manufacturer Metabolix has introduced new biobased polymeric performance additive, I6003rp for recycled polyvinyl chloride (PVC). According to the company, the additive makes processing torque easier while improving ...
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has seized over 30 kilograms of precursor and performance and image enhancing drugs in NSW over just one week. In the week starting 27 September 2013, ACBPS officers in the NSW ...
Why is it that we love spending time outside so much? Simply because we are Canadians and that's who we are, outdoor people? Or is it because our winters really suck and we can't wait to put on some flip-flops and sit on our patio with a ...
Tags: Garden Furniture, Furniture