An oil sump moulded from DuPont™ Zytel® nylon resin is helping the Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania meet new challenges with regard to noise, emissions and weight. The lightweight yet equally robust oil sump – the lower shell of the oil pan module - is among the host of innovative technical solutions incorporated by Scania in its new Euro 6 engines.
Myers Industries¸ a diversified, international manufacturer of polymer products for industrial, agricultural, automotive, commercial and consumer markets, has entered into an acquisition agreement with Plasticos Novel, a Brazilian company specializing in injection molded material handling products.
Online research firm Markets and Markets has released a report on the global epoxy resins market. The report talks about the key factors that drive and inhibit the market and also covers the opportunities and challenges faced by the market.
After years of being on the fringes of commercially viable polymer development, biopolymers – polymers produced from living organisms – are coming into their own.
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a novel clay-based coating, which may lead to a new generation of sustainable flame retardants for home furnishings.
MidAmerica Extrusions of Indianapolis, a company specializing in aluminum extrusions, has been acquired by Alexandria Industries, a privately held, high-quality producer of engineered products.
Aerospace transparencies group of PPG Industries has announced that commercial manufacturing of Opticor advanced transparency material has been started at the Sylmar plant. The company’s pilot operations were moved from the PPG Glass Business and Discovery Center located near Pittsburgh, in order to increase the high-performance plastic production for use in lightweight aircraft windows.
KEMET, a manufacturer of aluminum, ceramic, electrolytic capacitors, film, paper, and tantalum, has declared that it has added its new series of T550 Polymer Hermetic Seal (PHS) to its tantalum through-hole capacitors portfolio. These new capacitors offer up to 40% more ripple current potential, 90% low ESR and enhanced capacitance retention at higher frequency and low temperature when compared to wet tantalum devices. High voltage management applications are taken to new levels by means of these PHS capacitors.
HORN, a manufacturer and distributor of ingredients, raw materials and specialty chemicals, has established a new composite focused business unit called Composites & Fabrication Materials (CFM).
Innovative Plastics business of SABIC received Green Material Innovative Application Award from Plastics Technology (China), an influential plastics publication. This award was given in order to honor Valox iQ resin of the company.
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