Mid South Extrusion, a US-based converting and process films supplier for packaging industry, has installed a new 150mm Davis-Standard extruder to improve throughputs and expand film manufacturing capabilities. The firm has also made ...
Tags: packaging industry, Extruder
Davis-Standard announced that it will unleash a high-speed unwind during the K 2016 plastics and rubber trade fair, which will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany. Engineered for splice speeds up to 800mts per minute (2,600 fpm), the ...
Sonoco renames all facilities of the former Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG). As of January 1st 2016, former Weidenhammer plants and branches will operate under the name Sonoco Consumer Products Europe. This step completes the ...
Tags: Sonoco, composite cans, plastics packaging
DuPont Performance Polymers recently installed a 3D Suction blow-molding machine and a 450-ton injection molding machine in Asia-Pacific to strengthen its application development capabilities in the region. The 3D suction blow molding ...
Tags: 3D Suction, DuPont, chemiclas
The world’s first plastic transmission crossbeam in the rear axle subframe has been developed by ContiTech Vibration Control and BASF for the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz. It is made from the engineering plastic Ultramid A3WG10 CR, a ...
Tags: plastic transmission crossbeam, Mercedes S-Class, polyamides
ContiTech Vibration Control and chemical producer BASF, both of them based in Germany, have introduced plastic transmission crossbeam in the rear axle for Mercedes-Benz’s S-Class vehicles leading to weight reduction by around a ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Mercedes-Benz, S-Class vehicles
By the year 2020 the first cylinder housings manufactured from polymer composite materials will be introduced into passenger car and motorcycle engines, replacing the aluminium components currently in use, predicts SBHPP High Performance ...
Tags: motorcycle engine, passenger car, SBHPP, electric vehicles
With immediate effect, the polyCarbonate-based Alcom LDM (Light Diffusion Matt) from Albis Plastic will be used in the R. CarbonatE Alcom LED production line at Rober Kunststoffe. This specialist for extruded and transparent Plastics, ...
Tags: glazing materials, lighting sector, Lights
BASF has launched the first designfabrik outside Europe in Tokyo, Japan. The second designfabrik worldwide will strengthen BASF’s capabilities as a provider for comprehensive solutions supporting customers from various industries not ...
Tags: BASF, high-performance plastics
Additional Extruder Expands Recycler's Capacity A new extrusion line has been commissioned by AXION Recycled Plastics Inc. to help it increase its manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand.?AXION is a reprocessor of recycled plastic ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
Semiconductor materials distributor Wah Lee Industrial has reported revenues of NT$2.89 billion (US$97.95 million) for October 2013, down 5.5% sequentially but up 9.9% on year. Cumulative sales through October reached NT$28.38 billion, ...
Tags: Semiconductor, materials
Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a regional innovation hub for Asia Pacific in Shanghai, China. More than 200 experts will develop novel ideas for the use of high-performance plastics, foams and coatings in key sectors such as ...
Plastics processor Maywo Kunststoff was acquired by Rochling Engineering Plastics of Germany, for an undisclosed sum. Germany-based Maywo extrudes single and multi-layer sheets and films of ABS and polystyrene for use in thermoforming ...
Saint-Gobain,represented by Jean-Pierre Floris,Senior Vice-President and President of the Innovative Materials Sector has signed an M.O.U.with HRH Prince Faisal Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,to set up a high-tech company in the solar ...
Tags: solar energy, Saint-Gobain, GIGS
Clariant has opened a second production unit for the successful flame retardant(FR)Exolit OP at the Hürth-Knapsack plant near Cologne,Gemany.The established non-halogenated additive is used primarily in the electronics and electrical ...
Tags: flame retardant, non-halogenated additive, E&EE sector