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Chinaplas: Haitian ships record number of machines in 2013; 27%-plus global...
Shanghai, China-China's and indeed the world's largest injection molding machine builder, Haitian International (Ningbo), announced record unit shipments of around 27,000 presses in 2013, which...
View ArticleChinaplas: Copolymer POM grades target high load gear applications
Shanghai, China-High load gear applications have traditionally turned to homopolymer grades of polyacetal (POM) resin. The latest copolymer offerings from Celanese (Dallas, TX), however, are said to...
View Article3M subsidiary Dyneon walks the sustainability walk
Dyneon, a 3M company and a worldwide leader in the production of fluoropolymers, is not just talking the talk. The company has developed an innovative "Up-Cycling" technology, which is designed to...
View ArticleIBM Research discovers new class of industrial polymers
We have many polymer companies in North America-some of the biggest companies in the world. Yet it was scientists - and a 'happy accident' - from IBM Research who successfully discovered a new class of...
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Active vehicle safety systems present opportunities for conductive compounds
Proper operation of automotive radar and sensing systems is paramount to maintain vehicle safety and reliability. These systems are at the core of crash avoidance technologies such as autonomous...
View ArticlePreformed Line Products adds Engel machine to Arkansas facility
Engel North America recently installed a two-platen Engel duo 7050/720 injection molding machine equipped with an Engel viper 60 robot in the Preformed Line Products (PLP) plant located in Rogers,...
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Sabic inks metallocene PE JV with Korea's SK Global
Sabic and Korean petrochemical company SK Global Chemical (Seoul) have signed a 50-50 joint venture agreement that will see the partners invest a total of $595 million in metallocene-catalyzed...
View ArticleChina biggest robot market in 2013
In 2013, about 179,000 industrial robots were sold worldwide, representing an all-time high and 12 percent growth over 2012. And China, faced with skyrocketing labor costs, overtook Japan to become the...
View ArticleBASF doubles China engineering plastics compounding capacity; largest site in...
BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has undertaken three capacity expansion projects for performance materials at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China for polyamide (PA), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and...
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Preaching what it practices: the benefits of micromolding machines
Formative Tech, the Southeast Asian distributors for the Spanish-built Babyplast double plunger-type micro-injection molding machine is one company that practices what it preaches. Its sister company...
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All-Rite Industries triples size within five years
Providing diverse manufacturing capabilities -- with services from mold design through finished sub-assemblies -- has enabled All-Rite Industries to triple its size in under five years.Tagging...
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Michael J. Fox Foundation, Intel partner on wearable tech for Parkinson's...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation announced this week that it would provide patients with Parkinson's disease with Intel Basis smart watches and a specially developed app that can track people's movements...
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Latest 3D simulation software version debuts
3D CAE simulation solutions provider CoreTech System (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has released its latest iteration of software: Moldex3D R13.0.Tagging OptionsDomain: All Sites read more
View ArticleChevron Phillips Chemical to sell its Ryton PPS Business to Solvay as global...
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (The Woodlands, TX) will divest its Ryton polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) business to Solvay Specialty Polymers USA ((Alpharetta, GA) for $220 million. The announcement...
View ArticleBayer expands TPU facility in India
Bayer MaterialScience (NMS; Leverkusen) is planning to increase its production capacities in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu India to meet continued growth in demand for thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)...
View ArticleChinese-based TPE manufacturer establishes North American headquarters
PolymaxThermoplastic Elastomers is American-owned, but the company saw its start thousands of miles away."The company began in China because it was the largest TPE market at the time and we continue to...
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