Pexco LLC, an Atlanta-based plastics extruder-manufacturer, will exit the plastics sheet business to focus on profile extrusion and specialty plastics and has announced the closure of its Columbia, South Carolina plant. Plaskolite, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has purchased the sheet extrusion assets and order book. Pexco is working with the South Carolina Dislocated Worker Unit to assist in re-employment efforts for the 147 full-time site employees.
Ceram, the international materials technology company, and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (Materials KTN), the materials community network, hosted the first UK event around geopolymer technology* on Tuesday 04 ...
Rescue and HAZMAT workers, fire-fighters and miners depend upon self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) when working in extremely hazardous environments. So when Biomarine, an SCBA manufacturer based in Exton, Pa., needed to improve the impact strength and ability to dissipate static electricity for the external housing of its BioPak 240R Revolution rebreather, it turned to SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business. SABIC recommended replacing the existing polycarbonate (PC)-based compound with LNP™ FARADEX™ compound – which leverages proprietary LEXAN™ EXL copolymer technology and features electrically conductive stainless steel fibers – and provided world-class design and molding expertise.
The Department of Defense’s medical system aspires to a standard known as the “Golden Hour” that dictates that troops wounded on the battlefield are moved to advanced-level treatment facilities within the first 60 minutes of being wounded.
The plastics processor Ensinger located in Nufringen, Germany and BASF have entered into a joint undertaking with the Goldbeck Solar company to develop a modular mounting system for flat-roof solar installations in which the load-bearing elements are made of a BASF engineering plastic for the first time.
Ford Motor Co. and Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. shared the stage at the 42nd Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE®) Automotive Innovation Awards Gala, winning the "Most Innovative Use of Plastics" title in the Materials category for the LINCOLN® MKZ®, FORD® FUSION® and FORD ESCAPE® air register vanes.
A few months ago, FBW GmbH, a plastics compounding specialist in Niederzier/Germany, put into successful operation two STS 35 advanced Standard Twin Screw Compounders from Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart. Equipped with 35 mm diameter screws, these compounders have since been producing a whole range of high-grade pigment and additive masterbatches, mainly in small and medium-sized batches, i.e. in sizes ranging between 25 and 300 kg.
The Asia-Pacific biorenewable materials market is estimated to grow at a rate of over 19 percent per annum till 2018, as application development and technology licensing costs come down, and customer awareness grows. With biorenewable materials likely to replace common plastics in various packaging applications, the large replacement demand presents the market in the region with added growth opportunities.
Dow Coating Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, has announced plans to expand production of its Dispersants product line in response to rapidly increasing demand from customers across the globe. Additional production of TAMOL™ and OROTAN™ High-Performance Hydrophobically Modified Copolymer Dispersants from Dow is slated to begin in Q1 2013 following a rigorous scale-up and qualification process.
China XD Plastics Company Limited ("China XD Plastics" or the "Company"), one of China's leading companies engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of modified plastics primarily for automotive applications, today announced the successful opening of its new production lines as part of the Company's previously announced capacity expansion plan.
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