Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Chemicals
Air France-KLM will further cut tonnes from its annual aircraft carbon dioxide emissions, simply by using revolutionary new lightweight cargo nets that it is now introducing. Just one new lightweight net with Dyneema? will save Air ...
Tags: Gas, Transportation
Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences firm based in the Netherlands, c, a New Zealand based producer of nutritional products for both human and animal markets, for an undisclosed amount. Unitech, established in 1970, is ...
Resilient flooring such as vinyl composite tile (VCT), found throughout many areas of any health care facility, is traditionally coated with an acrylic floor finish that requires frequent buffing or burnishing to maintain an attractive ...
Tags: Instant Floor Guard, DSM
When One World Trade Center got its crowning spire recently, Slingmax roundslings were a critical part of the process. And those slings depended in large part on Dyneema fiber from DSM Dyneema LLC. DSM Dyneema, a leader in life ...
DSM Dyneema, the manufacturer of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) fiber, branded as Dyneema®, and world leader in life protection materials, today announced a major new milestone for its lightweight, cost-effective ...
Tags: FNSS, Ballistic Tape
Cooledge and Dow Corning took top spots in the Lightfair Innovation Awards for SSL enabling technologies, winning both individual categories against stiff competition and gaining special recognition from the judges. While the awards ...
There will be a change in management at three of the 14 business units of specialty chemicals company LANXESS. Dr. Ron Commander (62), Head of the Butyl Rubber business unit (BTR), will enter retirement at the end of this year and until ...
The European Coatings Show (ECS) took place in March 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany, at a time of continued static demand in the European Union’s coating market. The exhibition and the congress that was held at the same time is one of ...
Tags: European Coatings, Coatings
Why WestHolland? With almost 500 million residents, and a purchasing power second to none, Europe is one of the world's most important business and consumer markets. Dutch know-how and expertise in international trade and commerce make ...
Tags: Service, Business cooperation
Global life sciences and materials sciences company Royal DSM’s development partner MF-Folien in Southern Germany has introduced a new polyamide film based on DSM’s bio-based EcoPaXX polyamide 410. EcoPaXX polyamide 410 films ...
Tags: MF-Folien, Polyamide Film, Packaging
Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences firm based in the Netherlands, has opened new enzyme solutions, oils and fats unit office and laboratory in San Diego, California, US. The new facilities are expected to support the ...
Japan based DSM Nanjing is building a new Caprolactam (CPL) plant in China and plans to start commercial production by September 2013. A DSM Nanjing official informed fibre2fashion, “We are building a new CPL plant in Nanjing, which ...
Tags: CPL plant, DSM, Caprolactam
RiceBran Technologies and Royal DSM have announced that they have completed the Joint Research and Development Agreement (JRDA), which targeted rice bran derived protein. The JRDA, which was announced in November 2011, was aimed at ...
Tags: Ricebran, Rice Bran Protein, Food
Austria's Borealis has acquired Netherlands-based DEXPlastomers from ExxonMobil Chemical Company and Royal DSM, the Austrian petrochemical company said in a statement issued Monday. No financial details were given. DEXPlastomers, founded ...
Tags: Borealis, petrochemical, polyethylene