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Automotive Materials News

AZoM Puts The Materials World in The Palm of Your Hand with The New iPhone App AZoM.com is pleased to announce the launch of the AZoM.com ‘App’ for the Apple iPhone™ Available for free download by searching for “AZoM” or “Materials” through the iTunes App Store. Full Story

Hydrogen Enrichment System to be Tested by Canadian Transport Company

Arkema to Distribute EVOH Copolymers for Taiwanese Manufacturer

Merger Creates Massive Metal and Plastic Fastener Supplier

EnerDel to Team with US Army to produce Hybrid Humvee

ThyssenKrupp Develop 35 Innovations for Automotive Manufacturers

Recticel Subsidiaries Apply for Chapter 11

Aluminium Manufacturer Hydro to Sell Off Automotive Structures Business Norsk Hydro ASA has today entered into an agreement to divest its automotive structures business to Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH, the automotive division of the large German industrial enterprise Benteler Group with headquarters in Paderborn, Germany. The agreement represents a solid, long-term industrial solution for Hydro`s automotive structures activities, and is in line with Hydro’s strategy to focus its extruded activities on profiles solutions and building systems. Full Story

Donkervoort Automobielen Chooses ACG for Dunlop 24 Hour Race in Dubai 2010 Structural prepregs, and an industry-standard car body system from Advanced Composites Group Ltd (ACG), part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, are being used by Donkervoort Automobielen to build its new D8 GT competition race car for the 5th Edition Dunlop 24H of Dubai, scheduled for mid-January 2010. Full Story

Morgan Technical Ceramics Pioneers New Flow Modelling Technique for Ceramic Cores

Dow Corning and Wacker Begin Construction of Second Phase of Pyrogenic Silica Plant Wacker Chemie AG and Dow Corning Corporation officially started the construction of the second phase of their pyrogenic silica plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China. Full Story

Solutia to Reopen Insoluble Sulfur Plant

Honda Honors DuPont for Coatings Supply Honda recently named DuPont Automotive OEM Coatings as Supplier of the Year for outstanding performance in providing products and services. From among 2,400 in the supplier base, DuPont was one of 12 to earn an award. Full Story

BASF and Recaro Team to Produce Sports Seats for New Opel Insignia The performance front seats of the new Opel Insignia OPC – which obtained the quality seal of the Aktion Gesunder Rücken e.V. (AGR – Healthy Back Campaign) – were developed by Opel and Recaro with BASF’s assistance. These seats are made of two special polyamides belonging to the Ultramid® family as well as of the specialty foam Neopolen®. Full Story

DuPont - Helping Produce More Efficient Cars DuPont designs and develops more than 100 products used in every major system in vehicles. Full Story

Silver Continues to be the Most Popular Car Color

Eco Racer with Bodywork Made from Potatoes to Appear on BBC's Blue Peter Show Researchers at the University of Warwick will be appearing on the BBC’s Blue Peter show on Tuesday 13th October to demonstrate their eco friendly “WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car” which can be powered by chocolate, steered by carrots, and as bodywork made partly from potatoes. Full Story

Plastic Fuel Fillers Save Automotive Manufacturers Money Premix offers electrically conductive PRE-ELEC® compounds for PE-HD based fuel filler systems. The new products enable significant cost savings since they can be used both in extrusion blow-moulded filler pipes and injection moulded filler necks and heads. Full Story

High Output LEDs Enhance Driver and Pedestrian Safety The infrared Platinum Dragon from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors provides a high radiance from a small surface. With its 1 mm² thin-film chip in stack technology it generates an optical output of almost 1 W from a driving current of 1 A – that’s almost twice the output of the standard chips that have been used up to now. Full Story

Osram Lighting Solution for Motorcycle Riders Improves Safety