Materials

On May 12, at Villa Ottoboni Congress Centre in Padua (Italy), RadiciGroup Performance Plastics and its partners held a one-day customer-centred event featuring presentations, discussions and exchanges of ideas on products and innovation. This RadiciDay, attended by about 100 people, was the latest in a series of...

On May 18, 2016, Solvay Specialty Polymers, a leading global supplier of high-performance thermoplastics, announced the appointment of Nevicolor as distributor of its entire Ryton polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) product line in Italy. This significantly expands the broad portfolio of Solvay’s specialty polymers currently distributed by Nevicolor…

To reduce exploration and production costs and risks in subsea oil and gas systems, Magma Global Limited has developed the flexible m-pipe technology. Their latest lightweight continuous pipe is both the largest and longest Victrex PEEK-based structure ever, achieved with the support and expertise of Victrex. It can be deployed to depths of...

On April 22, 2016, Basf has signed an agreement to sell its global Polyolefin Catalysts business to W.R. Grace & Co. Currently, the Polyolefin Catalysts business is part of Basf’s Catalysts division. Basf and Grace intend to complete the transaction in the third quarter of 2016. The targeted transaction includes...

A leading company in the production of noise and vibration meters, Svantek has decided to successfully adopt Latiohm electrically conductive compounds from Lati for the manufacture of the case of its new professional SV 104 IS dosimeter. The reliability of a measuring instrument is linked to the precision with which the signal is collected and…

The Transpallet, the new pallet handling truck made from TechnylStar SX 218 by Solvay is an excellent example of the replacement of a metal with polyamide. The truck was presented during the AxtroLabWay 2016 convention of Arcoplex Group, that took place in Mogliano Veneto (Treviso, Italy) on April 21. The truck consists of...

Solvay, Renault Trucks and its partners have won the 2016 “JEC Innovation Award for Structural Parts in Automotive” using a thermoplastic composite material to build a front structural module of a truck, called the firewall. This new high performance composite material is based on Solvay Evolite thermoplastic resin reinforced with...

Last April 11 Chemtura announced the expansion of the Low Free (LF) MDI polyurethane elastomers production capacity at its Latina, Italian facility. The expansion, due for completion by the end of 2016, will complement the company existing LF MDI production capability in Gastonia, North Carolina (US), and ensure a flexible, reliable supply of LF…

NatureWorks and Metalvuoto announced a new generation of high barrier Ingeo based flexible substrates designed to keep processed foods fresh on store shelves. While Ingeo film has been used for years in fresh food packaging, this is the first application for longer shelf life foods that are increasingly packaged in flat, stand up, or squared…

This year’s winner in the RTM category at the JEC World Innovation Awards shows how complex hollow parts can be mass-produced in an automated process at competitive prices. The joint project of KTM Technologies, H2K Minerals, Teufelberger and Basf takes an integrative view of the process chain - from core formation and the manufacturing of...

The most performant thermally conductive compounds are obtained by adding large amounts of selected graphite to the thermoplastic matrix. However, this high graphite content ends up making these materials electrically conductive, with resistivity values that make them unsuitable for applications also requiring electrical insulation...

After supplying its material for the seats of eight of the major Brazilian stadiums that hosted the 2014 Fifa World Cup, this year RadiciGroup is back in Brazil with its Radiflam S flame retardant PA 6 engineering plastics. Five of the venues of the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (August 5-21) - Centro Olimpico de Tiro Esportivo, Arena da...

The Italian packaging specialist Industria Termoplastica Pavese (ITP) and DuPont Performance Materials have jointly developed Clearpack F for food, a high barrier film for vacuum skin packaging (VSP) applications, which provides a multitude of benefits including perfect sealing at low processing temperatures, tamper evidence...

For the 50th anniversary of Assocomaplast, one of the first names on the list of the guests of honour was Giovanni Baucia. He is no longer with us; he died at the end of January at the age of 97 years old. I saw him for the last time at the beginning of October 2010, he was friendly and smiling like he always was, greeting many of the speakers...

During the exhibition JEC World in Paris (March 8-10, 2016) Solvay launches its new rapid cure thermoset resin system MTR 760, which BMW selected to manufacture the CFRP hood of its new M4 GTS. This new resin system was specifically developed to manufacture resin impregnated carbon fibre blanks through...

Provider of innovative, value-creating plastics solutions, Borealis introduces a complete polypropylene portfolio for lightweight composite applications. These new polypropylene composite-based application solutions will be presented for the first time at the upcoming VDI international conference on plastics in automotive engineering taking place…

The processing of polymers brings its share of problems that can slow production, increase costs and reduce product quality. Such problems take place during colour and material changes mostly and include faded/mixed colours, black specks, material losses and time waste. Only the use of a strong and effective purging compound can...

The 4th edition of the Vinyl Sustainability Forum will take place in Vienna on April 28, 2016. Building upon Vinyl Sustainability Forum 2015, the theme for this year is “Smart Vinyl For Our Cities”. Cities are where an increasing majority of the world's population will be living and working in the future and where the challenge to provide…

With the demand for energy and natural feedstock usage continually increasing in the world, there is a growing need for sustainable products made from renewable materials. Global packaging enterprise Elopak has taken on the ambitious goal of achieving a net zero impact on the environment, as featured in “Stories of Possible”, a campaign that…

The Planet Green Chem platform is amongst the signatories, together with some of the members of the Italian Chemical Society of the appeal addressed to Iupac (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), which is the competent organization of chemical nomenclature at a world level, in order that one of the four new, recently discovered…