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Rusnano Project Company Metaclay begins manufacturing nanomaterials

Rusnano Project Company Metaclay begins manufacturing nanomaterials

Metaclay, a business based in Karachev, Bryansk Oblast, has launched the first production in Russia of nanosilicates and polymer nanocomposites incorporating those nanosilicates to be used as additives and fillers in the oil-and-gas, cable, packaging, and automobile industries.

Machine and process know-how along the entire process chain for composites

Machine and process know-how along the entire process chain for composites

During the JEC Composite Show Europe in Paris, KraussMaffei will present its know-how regarding machine and process technology for the production of composites along the entire process chain - from component development, pre-production and component testing through to series production and post-mold processing.

Saving material costs with WPC coextrusion

Saving material costs with WPC coextrusion

180 visitors from 27 countries are most convincing evidence to show that the eighth AMI Wood Plastic Composites Conference in Vienna was again able to defend its reputation as an international meeting place of the global WPC industry.

TPE  on the trail of crack in concrete buildings

TPE on the trail of crack in concrete buildings

TPE and its role to detect crack in concrete buidlings is the subject of the work of researchers at the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and German University of Potsdam.

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