Automotive
News Plastech

SABIC Innovative - Kicks Electric and Hybrid Vehicles into High Gear

SABIC Innovative - Kicks Electric and Hybrid Vehicles into High Gear

At Chinaplas 2010, SABIC Innovative Plastics announced a new portfolio of advanced Noryl* and Valox* automotive resins designed to help customers create alternative power train solutions by displacing weight and increasing performance for hybrid, plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery electric vehicles (BEV).

Transparent Nissan 370Z

Transparent Nissan 370Z

Shell's commissioned ad agency JWT to create a spot showing off the wondrous properties of Shell's Helix lubricants

Michelin has developed the world’s biggest tire, the MICHELIN XDR 59/80R63

Michelin has developed the world’s biggest tire, the MICHELIN XDR 59/80R63

The world’s largest tire, the MICHELIN XDR 59/80 R 63 will welcome visitors to BAUMA 2010. It will be on display in the atrium between Halls A3 and B3. The 63-inch tire measures more than 4 meters high, weighs 5.3 tonnes and can carry loads of up to 100 tonnes. This record-breaking tire has enabled equipment manufacturers to design and produce the latest generation of giant trucks used today in mines around the world.

Rhodia launches Eolys PowerFlex

Rhodia launches Eolys PowerFlex

Rhodia, the world leading supplier of catalytic materials for the automotive industry, has launched its new performance additive Eolys Powerflex.

Lanxess launches elastomers for biofuel vehicles

Lanxess launches elastomers for biofuel vehicles

Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG has developed a series of HNBR rubbers with extremely high acrylonitrile (ACN) content, thus making them suitable for use in vehicles that are run on biofuels.

Mazda develops technology to recycle auto bumpers

Mazda develops technology to recycle auto bumpers

Car maker Mazda has developed what it says is a significant step forward in recycling plastic automobile bumpers by developing the world’s first technology to simultaneously handle bumpers from different car makers while automating processes such as removing metal contaminants.

SPE has honoured two polymers of DuPont

SPE has honoured two polymers of DuPont

The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Division has honoured two automotive components that use DuPont engineering polymers with the association`s 2008 "Most Innovative Use of Plastics" awards at its ceremony in Livonia, Michigan (US) on November 2008.