Polyurethanes
First high speed lamination line from Saip sold in China

The Italian polyurethane equipment manufacturer Saip Equipment has sold its first high-speed lamination line for the production of insulation boards with ...

Polyurethanes
Large-volume production of continuous fibre-reinforced PU parts

The Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, is currently working on the development of a ...

Polyurethanes
Dow Automotive Systems with new product portfolio for commercial transportation

Dow Automotive Systems provides a comprehensive portfolio of adhesives, composites and foams to improve the durability, emission control, corrosion improvement, ...

Polyurethanes
Polyurethanes improve the flight properties of the European championship “Tango 12” soccer ball

The official ball with the name “Tango 12” for this year’s European Soccer Championship “Uefa Euro 2012” is the result of a long-standing collaboration between ...

Polyurethanes
BASF collaborates with Perma-Pipe Oil and Gas for deep ocean developments

BASF recently announced that it is participating in collaborative projects with Perma-Pipe Oil and Gas, New Iberia, LA, under contract to LLOG Exploration ...

Polyurethanes
Huron Technologies, Inc. has launched Release Coating 7972 for high resiliency flexible foam applications.

Release Coating 7972 is a solvent-based release agent that delivers effective evaporation in moulding conditions with short process times before foam pour, due ...

Polyurethanes
Dow and Graco jointly launch Betafoam NVH solution for GAC-Fiat

Dow Automotive Systems and Graco have jointly launched the Betafoam NVH solution at the Automotive NVH New Products & Technologies Conference in the Graco Asia ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Russian version of Material Data Center

Material Data Center, the international plastics database, is now available in a special version, customized to the Russian market, based on a cooperation ...

Polyurethanes
BASF presents new concept refrigerator coolpure 1.0

BASF Polyurethanes has recently presented the new refrigerator concept coolpure 1.0 at Utech 2012 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. BASF says the concept ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Cereplast launches TPE starch hybrid resins

Cereplast, Inc has launched thermoplastic elastomer starch hybrid compounds for injection molding applications. Hybrid 111D boasts 30% starch and Hybrid 112D ...

Polyurethanes
Reactive moisture scavenger for polyurethane systems

The Korean company Young's Corporation has launched Supersorb TI (p-Toluenesulfonylisocyanate), a reactive monofuctional isocyanate of low viscosity which ...

Polyurethanes
Composite novelties from Hennecke at JEC Europe 2012

The German company Hennecke GmbH can look back on a successful JEC Europe 2012, the leading exhibition for the composites industry in Paris. Apart from the ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
Chair made of recycled PET is the Top Winner of the 2nd International Plastics Design Competition at NPE2012

The 111 Navy Chair, a replica of the modern design icon of the 1940s is the top winner of the prestigious International Plastics Design Competition (IPDC) ...