2012 ASC – CATIA – FEICA Adhesives and Sealants Classification Manual

Three of the leading trade associations representing the adhesives and sealants industry have collaborated to harmonise the industry’s classification manual. The 2012 ASC – CATIA – FEICA Adhesives and Sealants Classification Manual provides a common set of market definitions and product categories that can be used to represent the adhesive and sealant industry worldwide.

DeZurik Material Selection Guide

A new online Material Selection Guide is available from valve manufacturer DeZurik, based in Sartell, MN, USA. The web application makes it quick and easy to determine which metals or elastomers are suggested as suitable for valves in applications involving specific corrosive media, pressures, and temperatures.

2012 ASC – CATIA – FEICA Adhesives and Sealants Classification Manual

Three of the leading trade associations representing the adhesives and sealants industry have collaborated to harmonise the industry’s classification manual.

Modeling and Simulation in Polymers

P. D. Gujrati, A. I. Leonov (eds.), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2010, 546 p., hardcover, EUR 149.00, ISBN 978-3-527-32415-6

Zeon Product Guide 2012

The annual Zeon Product Guide serves as a reference source to those working in the rubber industry, detailing the various properties of each of the company’s products.

Handbook of Bioplastics and Biocomposites Engineering Applications

Srikanth Pilla (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, and Scrivener Publishing LLC, Salem, 2011, 594 p., hardcover, EUR 169.00, ISBN 978-0-470-62607-8

Métodos Constructivos con Paneles Sandwich

Rolf Koschade, Huntsman Polyurethanes (ed.), Librería Santa Fe S.R.L., Buenos Aires, 2011, 391 p., hardcover, USD 101.99, ISBN 978-987-26164-0-3

Polyurethane Amine Catalysts: Safe Handing Guidelines

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has released updated guidelines on the use of amine catalysts in polyurethane foam manufacturing.

Polyurea Status Report

PDA Europe has issued the English edition of the Polyurea Status Report jointly worked out with Deutsche Bauchemie e. V. (German Association of Construction Chemicals Manufacturers).

Stepan Europe publishes new “Product Selector Guide”

The European arm of Stepan Company’s polyols division has recently published an updated version of its product selector guide (PSG) for Stepanpol aromatic polyester polyols produced for the European market at its Wesseling, Germany, plant.

Kalrez Application Guide

In addition to the Chemical Resistance Guide (CRG) from Dupont Performance Elastomers, the Kalrez Application Guide has also been updated to help process and maintenance engineers select perfluoroelastomer seals by rating the resistance of Kalrez products in various combinations of temperature and chemical media.

Chemical Resistance Guide

Video on FIPFG sealing technology

Analysis on the emulsion polymers market