LyondellBasell to exit Chapter 11 protection The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has authorised LyondellBasell's reorganisation plan. The proposals, which received broad-based support from virtually all creditors, will see the company ...

New ASSOCOMAPLAST's President appointed On Wednesday April 28, 2010, the Committee of the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' Association unanimously deliberated to appoint Mr Giorgio Colombo, managing director of ...

Thermal Roof System’s Tom Schaal Appointed to Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Sacramento Tom Schaal, vice president of sales and marketing at Thermal Roof Systems (TRS),  one of the top U.S. installers of spray polyurethane foam (SPF) roofing, was appointed to the Board of Directors of Rebuilding ...

According to a new technical market research report, Plastics For Healthcare Packaging from BCC Research, the U.S. market for plastic healthcare packaging is expected to reach 3.8 billion lb of ...

Chemical manufacturer PCC Rokita’s Polyol business unit (Poland) has signed an agreement with Hamburg-based raw materials distribution and sales specialist VELOX for the distribution of Rokopol® ...

Bayer MaterialScience a leader in polyurethane chemistry, recently announced the availability in the North American market of new high-solids, fine-particle polyurethane dispersions for the ...

Global chemical companies such as Bayer MaterialScience and AkzoNobel have been making great strides in China. Now, India awaitsOF ALL the Asian economies, China has been in the limelight for a ...

Solvay Fluor offers a complete range of foaming agents and high end brominated flame retardants to the global PU industry. Namely the Solkane® 365mfc range of foaming agents and the IXOL® range of ...

RAMPF Group, Inc., US subsidiary of the German company RAMPF-Gruppe, has extended its range of mixing and dispensing machines. The new C-DS Basic offers a wide variety of applications for cost ...

Hickory Springs celebrated half a century of foam production with a gala party here last week that brought praise for the company from city, county and state officials. Dozens of company employees ...

This work provides a new way of utilizing renewable resources to prepare environmentally friendly biobased hybrid latexes with high performance for coating applications. Also provided are biobased ...

A filled polyurethane foam that includes a closed-cell polyurethane matrix having a mineral filler dispersed therein, wherein the polyurethane foam has a density of from about 1.5 to about 3.0 pounds ...

Process for reacting thermoplastic polyurethanes with compounds having isocyanate groups, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a prepolymer which is the reaction product of (a) ...