Residents of five communities in the Polish province of West Pomerania are already experiencing the benefits of an improved drinking water and sanitation network thanks to an on-going project to upgrade and expand the existing system with pipes based on BorSafe PE100 LS-H from Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions.
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Geloy XTW Resin provides exceptional good looks, weatherability, and performance for Zhongcai’s Window Profiles.
In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, a new National Stadium is currently under construction and planned to be completed at the end of 2010. The architectural design with its eye-catching cabriolet roof of Makrolon sheets from Bayer Sheet Europe, evokes memories of the Commerzbank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The stadium is named after Lia Manoliu, a discus thrower who won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico and died in 1998. With its innovative architecture, the new stadium fits well in the line-up of modern sports arenas.
A Taiwan company has built a three-story exhibition hall using 1.5 million plastic bottles instead of bricks to raise interest in recycling, creating what the builder described as a world-first.
The international heating systems manufacturer Viessmann, Germany, now uses Basotect plastics to insulate its solar collectors.
As a leading global partner to the construction industry, BASF is exhibiting at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from January 19 to 21, 2009.
Europe's first plastics road bridge is ready for use! The plastics bridge comes without nails and screws. Instead, the bridge's carriageway slab is made of fibreglass-reinforced polymer (FRP) glued onto two steel bearers. The bridge is 27 metres long by five metres wide and weighs 80 tonnes and can be used as any traditional bridge.
The first ever Soudal plant in Poland is being constructed in Pionki, in the mazowieckie voivodship. The Belgian company is to invest 35 million PLN and intends to hire 100 persons.
SABIC Innovative Plastics` Lexan Thermoclear Glazing Is Being Used for UEFA Euro 2008 Stadiums and Arenas.
BASF is expanding its production capacities for the innovative insulation product Neopor in Ludwigshafen and will start producing the material for the first time in South Korea. Neopor needs less material to achieve the same insulation quality as Styropor, thus making a key contribution to energy efficiency and climate protection.
In the plastics segment, BASF intends to focus on specialties and products with a high potential for differentiation in the market. The target is to increase the sales share of these products by 2010 from roughly 25 to 40%. At The International Construction Fair Budma 2008 in Poznań, Poland, the company showed its new methylstyrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (AMSAN). AMSAN are the group of polymers which are highly compatible with PVC and have a high glass transition temperature.
