API Spa invests in innovative machinery and research
API Spa, Italy’s leading producer of thermoplastic compounds (TPE, TPU and Bioplastics), is in the process of making significant investments in production machinery and R&D infrastructure.
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‘Green’ Arnitel® Eco helps end-users reduce their carbon footprint.
Arnitel® Eco is an innovative thermoplastic elastomer partially made from rapeseed oil. This revolutionary material from DSM Engineering Plastics (DSM) helps end-users reduce their carbon footprint. Innovation and environmental performance has been noticed and the Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence in Product Innovation Award was granted.
Elasto launches coloured medical grade thermoplastic elastomers
Elasto, a leader in the development and manufacture of custom formulated thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) have announced the latest development in their Mediprene range of medical grade TPEs - coloured compounds.
SABIC’s third Chinese manufacturing investment announcement in 2011
SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business, Chongqing Xiyong Micro-electronics Industrial Park, and the Chongqing Economic and Informatization Commission announced a memorandum of understanding where SABIC would establish an engineering thermoplastics compounding plant in Chongqing, China.
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.
SABIC launches Extem UH
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ newest Extem UH resin meets hottest trends for higher continuous use temperatures and greater design freedom.
FRX Polymers and Polynew are top winners of Spe Environmental Division’s ‘Clean Technology’ Awards
A technology developed by FRX Polymers, Inc. for producing engineering thermoplastics that are inherently flame retardant and environmentally friendly has received the first-place award in the Clean Technology Business Forum and Competition, it was announced today by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE).
Agreement between PolyOne and Zyvex Performance Materials
PolyOne and Zyvex Performance Materials announce agreement to develop carbon-nanotube thermoplastic composites.
New polyacetal from DuPont
DuPont Delrin 300CP optimises impact performance, flow and cost-efficiency.
A. Schulman introduces new tpe soft-touch injection molding and slush products in Europe
A. Schulman announced the European launch of two new thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) products for automotive applications – Invision VX EP ultra high-flow TPE, and Invision SLX slush TPE.
New DuPont Crastin PBT grades cut costs with super-fast moulding cycles
Moulders can cut cycle time for PBT parts up to 30 percent with new super-fast grades of DuPont Crastin PBT thermoplastic polyester. Designated Crastin SF, the new resins come in non-reinforced form and in reinforced versions with 15 or 30 percent glass fibre.
Teknor Apex licenses innovative starch-blend technology from Cerestech for producing bioplastics
Teknor Apex Company has signed a licensing agreement with Cerestech Inc. on a unique method for blending relatively low-cost thermoplastic starch (TPS) with synthetic polymers or other bioplastics while retaining high levels of key performance properties, the companies announced jointly today.
