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Speciality chemicals producer Lanxess (Leverkusen / Germany; www.lanxess.com) has developed a nanoparticle additive that can be used in the reinforcement of thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers ...
Dow Elastomers, a business unit of Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan / USA; www.dow.com) has added two grades to its “Affinity GA” family of polyolefin elastomers. “Affinity GA” 1000R is a maleic ...
Dow Chemical Co (European HQ: Bachtobelstr. 3, CH-8810 Horgen), has outlined its concept for the new olefins/polyolefins complex to be set up in eastern Germany through a merger of Buna GmbH (D-06259 ...
BASF (Ludwigshafen / Germany; www.basf.com) has developed a range of PA 6 and 6.6 grades for use in sensitive electronic applications such as control units and sensors in cars. The new “Ultramid” EQ ...
Specialty US packaging and merchandising provider, Chesapeake (Richmond, Virginia, USA) has acquired the Northern Ireland business of Boxmore International (Ennis House, Enterprise Way, Hightown ...
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The Swiss chemical company Ciba-Geigy (CH-4002 Basel) intends to transfer its composite business to the American Hexcel Corp (Pleasanton, California / USA). The statement of intent, signed by both ...
The state-owned Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano, Moscow / Russia; www.rusnano.com) is participating in a RUB 6.2 bn (about EUR 82m) investment in modernising the caprolactam ...
A range of cellulose bioplastics, “Celblen EC”, produced from non-edible wood resources, has been developed and introduced by Daicel Polymer (Tokyo / Japan; www.daicelpolymer.com). The polymers are ...
Bayer MaterialScience (D-51368 Leverkusen; www.bayermaterialscience.com) and thermoplastic elastomers specialist PTS Plastic Technologie Service (D-91587 Adelshofen; www.pts-marketing.de), are to ...
The DuPont group (European HQ: PO Box 50, CH-1218 Le Grand-Saconnex) has brought out in test quantities a new PPDI-based high temperature thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) "Hylene", which it claims "fills ...