According to Feica, the Association of the European Adhesive & Sealant Industry, on 4 August 2020 a new restriction on diisocyanates was adopted by the European authorities under REACH, targeting respiratory and dermal sensitisation potentially caused by diisocyanates. The new restriction requires training prior to use for diisocyanates.

The Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) announced that it has partnered with Industrial Market Insight to create a white paper entitled: “Adhesives and Sealants in Battery and Hybrid Electric Vehicles” to provide ASC members visibility into market opportunities and growth potential in the electric vehicle market and the value creation with adhesives in EV and BEV battery and motor applications.

By offering a new tablet-accessible spare parts catalog, KraussMaffei is giving its customers in reaction process machinery a solution that can provide a boost in efficiency in terms of maintenance. Its advantage compared to the existing desktop catalog:

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.