Heading for the future with Arburg on the "Road to Digitalisation"
The Arburg Technology Days have been around for 20 years now. Between 13 and 16 March 2019, more than 6,000 visitors from 54 countries joined the event.
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Digitization and ideas for the future at KHS
Industry pioneers such as Lorenz Adalbert Enzinger and Theo Seitz bear witness to the long tradition research and development enjoys at KHS.
Achieving flame-retardant properties without red phosphorus
Lanxess offers alternatives to polyamide 66 compounds containing red phosphorus.
Flexible bipolar polymer plates open the way for compact batteries
The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology is currently developing a new type of bipolar plate which is flexible and extremely thin and which allows bipolar batteries to be cost-effectively manufactured.
The new Moretto website is now online!
Presentation of the new website moretto.com, now online and usable on all types of devices.
Innovations for a climate-friendly chemical production
BASF pursuing ambitious Carbon Management program, with R&D activities opening up new possibilities
Paint the future - the AkzoNobel startup challenge begins
The first edition of Paint the Future - the AkzoNobel startup challenge is now open.
Ampacet innovative solutions for film applications
Ampacet LAMSLIP 754 is a specialty Masterbatch solution designed to provide outstanding and consistent slip properties to laminated film structures for trouble-free converting and packing operations.
ExxonMobil introduces new polymer grade for flexible packaging
ExxonMobil will display a new Exceed XP performance polymers grade for high-performance coextrusion films, and recycle opportunities using Vistamaxx performance polymers at Arabplast 2019.
If one is not enough ... DUO!
When the production of blow moulded industrial items is high, is it better to choose more single-cavity machines (doubling the cost of investment, the floor space and energy consumption) or a multi-cavity machine, which minimizes all these costs, but makes production less flexible?
Arlanxeo's Keltan KSA opens flagship online Customer Self-Service Platform
In 2018 Arlanxeo signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco to market and sell its share of Ethylene Propylene Diene rubbers (EPDM) produced in its Petro Rabigh joint-venture plant. Today, Arlanxeo launches its Keltan KSA Self-Service platform to serve its customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
100 years "Catalyst Laboratory" in Leverkusen
The "Catalyst Laboratory" was founded 100 years ago in Leverkusen. At that time, the scope of activities was outlined as "work on catalytic reactions involving organic substances". This laboratory now belongs to the specialty chemicals company Lanxess and operates as a cross-divisional competence center for catalysts and their applications.
