FR and Metallic-Effect PBTs
Ticona Engineering Polymers, Florence, Ky., has new non-halogenated flame-retardant Celanex PBT grades and others with metallic-effect appearance. The company also plans to introduce supergloss PBTs i...
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Colorants for Medical-Grade Polyolefins
WEB EXCLUSIVE A new family of color masterbatches is formulated for use with medical-grade PE and PP resins sold under the Purell brand name by LyondellBasell, Wilmington, Del. The Remafin MD masterba...
Enhanced Purge Compound
An enhanced version of a low-residue, low-temperature physical purging agent is said to offer 20% better cleaning power than the previous version. Improved Asaclean E from Asaclean-Sun Plastech Inc., ...
Custom Compounds With Carbon Nanotubes
A Japanese maker of injection presses has started a material compounding service to provide thermoplastics enhanced with carbon nanotubes. Voltiga CNT materials and compounding service were announced ...
New Polycarbonate for High-Brightness LEDs
A new polycarbonate from Bayer MaterialScience, Pittsburgh, is designed for high-brightness LEDs. Makrolon LED2245 offers high light transmittance, low haze, improved heat resistance, and good toughne...
Low-VOC Vinyls Target Furniture
New flexible PVC compounds from Teknor Apex Co., Pawtucket, R.I., are said to emit 80% fewer volatile organic compounds than standard vinyls. The low-VOC grades are for profiles, molded items, extrusi...
PET for Thick-Wall Bottles Has Glass-Like Clarity
A new PET resin is designed to provide very high clarity and a wide processing window for molding thick-walled bottles and containers of unconventional sizes and shapes. Polyclear Crystal PET 3302 fro...
PC Sheet For Aircraft Interiors
Kleerdex Co., Bloomburg, Pa., has introduced its first thermoformable polycarbonate sheet for aircraft interiors. Kydex FST sheet is made from Lexan FST9705 PC resin from SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pi...
High-Efficiency Barrel Heating And Cooling
The Servtek TCS (Thermal Control Solution) radiant barrel heating/cooling system, developed by Rex Materials Group, Fowlerville, Mich., and distributed exclusively for plastics by Cincinnati Milacron ...
Tiny, Low-Priced Camera For Web Inspection
A tiny new line-scan camera for non-patterned web inspection requires a fraction of the space and cost of most web-inspection cameras. Web-i from Webview Inc., Santa Rosa, Calif., measures only 3.8 x ...
Pipe Die Has Internal Air-Cooling
The new Maxflexx pipe die from Inoex GmbH in Germany (U.S. office in Lancaster, Pa.) cools a pipe with internal air cooling. According to the patent application (U.S. 20080131542, June 5, 2008) there ...
China’s steel export spike may benefit Hyundai Steel
China’s record level of steel exports in July could actually be a positive catalyst for stocks such as Hyundai Steel, which would benefit from potential increased China export taxes, CLSA said. ...
Carrefour’s expansion in China
When Carrefour entered the Chinese market in 1995, the French supermarket chain chose to do it quietly, kind of like testing the water rather than making a splash. There was no marching band or lion d...
Brazil seeks more trade with China
Brazil will double its trade with China in the next five years, Alessandro Teixeira, president of the Brazil Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), said in Beijing Monday. &quo...
Leading fair set for Shanghai launch in Sept
The third wire & Tube China 2008 trade fair will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from September 23 to 26. The leading industrial event is made up of two fairs – the All...
Rebate offers short-term boost
Major Chinese textile companies have said that the recent adjustment in tax rebates will lead to increased profits in the short term, but the long-term impact would be limited. Jiangsu Sainty Corp Ltd...
Higher Speeds for Double-Shot Machines
Cycle-time reductions from faster clamp movements and mold-plate rotation, as well as improved cooling, are claimed for two new models in the SEHS-CI all-electric double shot line from Sumitomo Heavy ...
New Gas-Assist Components
A new line of separate pressure generators, high-pressure compressors, and gas controllers, which can be combined into a system that grows as the customer’s business expands, comes from Gain Tec...
High-Speed, Two-Stage Press For Precision Thin-Wall Parts
A new machine capable of injection speeds of 1500 mm/sec or 60 in./sec expands the V-line of two-stage plunger injection presses from Sodick Plustech Co. of Japan, represented here by Plustech Inc., S...
Hot-Runner Mold Inserts Offer Cooling Enhancement
Improved cavity filling and cooling are the aims of a new line of inserts for hot runners that are made by “selected laser melting” (SLM) of H-13 steel powders. Developed by HRSFlow HotRun...