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 EUPlastvoltage
Project Kicks-Off
June 2009 sees the “EUPlastvoltage” research project commence with major
national plastics associations taking part in this European-wide research
project.
The EuPC
is co-ordinating the programme.
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 PMMDA
KART RACING CHALLENGE 2009
PMMDA’s Annual Kart Racing Challenge was 'scaled down' for 2009 due to
the current economic climate, and Members were invited to race as
individuals instead of the usual team endurance race. Drivers seemed to
really enjoy this format and competitiveness hit an all-time high! |
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Dynisco Analyzer Meets ISO 2507 for Testing PVC & ABS
Pipes and Fittings
 Programming
of the HDV3 family of polymer analyzers from Dynisco has been expanded to
cover the ISO 2507 standard for determining the Vicat softening
temperature of thermoplastic pipes and fittings made of PVC, ABS and ASA
resins. |
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Power Efficiency's E-Save TechnologyR can save you
energy and money
Granulators are an example of plastics machinery that consumes large
amounts of energy. For equipment such as these – its motors operate at
variable loads, and wastes energy when the machine is lightly loaded or
not loaded at all. There is a technology available to counter this problem
called E-Save Technology®, developed by Power Efficiency
Corporation.
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 Plastic
Adhesive Takes To Polyolefin's
Typically, a
pretreatment stage, which may include flame treatment, etching or
roughening, is required before being able to bond polyolefin substrates.
Specially formulated to eliminate this time consuming stage, the MB514
polyolefin based hot melt is particularly suited for use on untreated
surfaces of polyethylene, polypropylene and combinations of these
substrates.
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Self-healing elastomer enters industrial production
 In
February 2008 Arkema announced the joint development with the Paris Ecole
Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) Matière Molle et
Chimie Laboratory of a revolutionary self-healing rubber based on the
concept of supramolecular chemistry. Arkema will now begin the industrial
production of the first high-performance materials derived from this
chemistry.
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First Commercial Use of Renewable-sourced
Merquinsa´s Pearlthane® ECO in Ski Goggles from SMITH OPTICS
 Merquinsa´s
renewable-sourced Pearlthane® ECO, Bio Thermoplastic Polyurethane
Elastomers (Bio TPU) can now be found in market leader, Smith Optics’ new
Evolve collection of snow goggles.
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 RadiciGroup
aims for quality and sustainable development
The Group’s Novara
chemicals complex achieves UNI EN ISO 14001 environmental certification
and is one of the first Italian firms certified under the new ISO
9001:2008 standard
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Dow Hyperlast Helps Identify Vacant Parking Bays at
Heathrow Terminal 5
 When
Highlight Parking Ltd. conceived its signage system for displaying vacant
parking bays to car drivers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, they approached an
engineering design company to create a suitable protective housing for the
outdoor electronic sensor. The design company, being unfamiliar with the
properties of polyurethane, discussed the project with Custom Moulded
Polyurethanes Ltd. |
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 Oxo
degradable additives are incompatible with mechanical recycling
Europe is leading the market in terms of sustainable development thanks to
the abundance of European legislation aiming to protect the environment.
The European Treaty of Lisbon goes even further than previous Treaty
regarding environment. |
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Dow Europe GmbH Announces Price Increases for
Polystyrene Products
Dow’s
raw material and energy costs for polystyrene have steadily increased over
the last weeks and the polystyrene margins are at unsustainably low
levels. As a result, Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase across
the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions for polystyrene
resins. |
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 Conair
to Market Kreyenborg Infrared Dryers
An agreement between
The Conair Group, Inc., Cranberry Township, PA, USA, and Kreyenborg Plant
Technology, GmbH & Co., Senden, Germany, gives Conair rights to sell a
co-branded infrared polymer dryer (IRD) to plastics processors worldwide.
In fact, the first Conair-Kreyenborg IRD has already been sold to a sheet
producer in Monterrey, Mexico. |
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