Sekisui Alveo, manufacturer of polyolefin foams, has presented improved Alveobloc NACO III, conductive foam at FachPack 2012 in Nuremberg. Alveobloc is made of laminated foam sheets and has a uniform closed-cell structure that absorbs ...
Tags: polyolefin foams, sheets, Sekisui Alveo
Polyolefin coatings firm Intertape Polymer Group has announced enhancement to the NovaShield warranty program. All NovaShield 400 series use the ArmorKote technology, and the firm claims the latest NovaShield programs offered now give ...
Tags: Novashield Program, ArmorKote technology, packaging systems
LyondellBasell Industries announced earnings for the third quarter 2012 of $851 million, or $1.47 per share. Third-quarter 2012 EBITDA was $1,565 million, inclusive of a $71 million reversal of non-cash, lower of cost or market inventory ...
Tags: olefins business, polyolefins business, chemical industry
Flint Group’s Packaging and Narrow Web division is set to introduce a PUR-based ink system VarioLam for all major films in packaging printing. The ‘multi purpose’ system has been designed for lamination printing including ...
Tags: Ink System, Packaging Applications, packaging printing
Porous Power Technologies and Japan-based Chisso Corp have entered into a cooperate agreement to produce new variants of the SYMMETRIX battery separators for use in automotive batteries. The companies said that SYMMETRIX, which looks like ...
Cardia Bioplastics has been selected by global protective packaging company Sealed Air to provide the resin for its Fill-Air R5 inflatable packaging. The Cardia Biohybrid resin helped the US-based company to reduce its dependency on ...
Polyolefin materials manufacturer in The Netherlands LyondellBasell has announced that the company will restore a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) line in Wesseling, Germany. According to the company, startup of the new LDPE line, which ...
Tags: Ldpe Line, healthcare applications, production capability
BPF Director-General Peter Davis speaking yesterday at the Global Polymer Innovation Expo (GPIE) in Columbus, Ohio said the world has plentiful oil and gas reserves and global polyolefins capacity should be sufficient to meet demand growth ...
Tags: market view, Plastics
Sheffield start-up Iceotope can dramatically cut,by over 90%,the cooling overhead of data centres,and increases the computational density of server racks,by moving to liquid cooling. Conventional servers are cooled by air,with fans bowing ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Iceotope, Energy
L/LDPE The L/LDPE price bubble has truly burst with notations tumbling in June. Producers initially hoped to limit the downward price adjustment in line with the ?20/tonne drop in the June ethylene contract price but were swiftly forced to ...
Tags: market view, Plastics prices
Swiss Chemical company Clariant Masterbatches just announced a liquid vehicle technology (LVT) developed to eliminate problems that have prevented wider use of liquid color and additive concentrates in extrusion blow molding of polyolefins. ...
Tags: Polyolefin Blow Molding
Specialty chemical company in Switzerland, Clariant Masterbatches has developed the new liquid vehicle technology (LVT) to eliminate problems that have prevented wider use of liquid color and additive concentrates in extrusion blow molding ...
Consumer preferences are driving change across the diverse end markets of Asia, prompting firms such as Dow Chemical Co. To have to adapt quickly, especially in such sectors as plastics packaging. Four Dow executives shared their views on ...
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Teknor Apex, one of the world's largest compounders of flexible PVC, is actively developing a PVC-free alternative for medical applications and already reports a handful of commercial applications in smaller sizes. Replacing PVC in medical ...
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NSK has highlighted the relevance of its cost saving, bearing asset improvement programme (AIP) to all sectors of industry. By reducing downtime resulting from production hold-ups, the AIP has saved a manufacturer of luxury handbags 36.371 ...
Tags: Market View, bearing