Effective from 1 March 2018, Martin Fischer has joined the Managing Board of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag in Schwaig, Germany.

DowDuPont Transportation and Advanced Polymers, a business segment of the DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, introduced a new perfluoroelastomer compound developed to meet the needs of the semiconductor fabricating industry.

Huisheng Peng, Xuemei Sun, Wei Wenig, Xin Fang, William Andrew Publishing/Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2016, 386 p., hardcover, EUR 140.00, ISBN 978-0-12-811091-1, ebook, EUR 140.00, ISBN 978-0-12-811092-8

Engro Corporation – a leading group of companies in Pakistan – has announced to invest a fresh PKR 3.03 billion into its subsidiary Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited (EPCL) as it looks to expand its chemical production plants by 2020.

LMI Technologies, a developer of 3D scanning and inspection solutions, has launched the Gocator 2430 and 2440 laser profilers at Tire Technology Expo 2018.

Effective from 1 January 2018, Dr. Matteo Terragni has taken over the management of Engel Italia.

Material & Design Solutions (MDS) has launched Petroz, a new line of low-compression set perfluoroelastomers (FFKM) compounds for the chemical processing and refining industries.

Wolfgang Grellmann, Beate Langer (eds.), Springer GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, 2017, 533 p., hardcover., EUR 160.50, ISBN 978-3-319-41877-3, e-book, EUR 119.00, ISBN 978-3-319-41879-7

Kuraray America, Inc. announced that it will exhibit at the American Coatings Show (ACS) 2018 (stand 2355), which will be held from 9 – 12 April 2018 in Indianapolis, IN, USA. The company will showcase several products within its chemical, polymer and elastomer technology businesses.

Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh), a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, said its Rabigh Phase II project has achieved on-spec production at the aromatics and ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) units.