PLAST ’09 will see the European launch of WACKER’s new silicone product range for medical applications. Marketed under the SILPURAN® trade name, these ultra-pure silicone products have a property profile ...
BASF
plans to permanently close its production facility for 1,4-butanediol (BDO)
and tetrahydrofuran (THF) in Ulsan, which has been temporarily shut down since
August 2008, and the company will continue to supply related customers via its
global network. BASF’s PolyTHF plant in Ulsan will continue to operate
with feedstock from the network accordingly.
The
Lubrizol Corporation announced today that it has acquired the
thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) business from The Dow Chemical Company, a $54
billion diversified chemical company. This acquisition, structured as a sale
and purchase of assets, will expand Lubrizol’s Estane® Engineered
Polymers business. The Dow TPU business had 2007 revenues of approximately $85
million.
A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as
if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT
mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" is the simplest fluid
example of chaos theory ever explored.
Zwick’s market leading software testXpert® II helps operators of Vicat polymer testing equipment to meet the stringent requirements of ISO 306, EN 727 or ISO 75 by using a powerful wizard which steps through the instrument’s parameters. As a result, no settings can be forgotten or be input in an inconsistent way.
The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) recently received the 2008 Award for Industrial
Innovation from the Luxembourg Business Federation (FEDIL). The company was
honored for its Goodyear OptiGrip(R) tire with SmartWear(R) Technology.
Shin-Etsu
Chemical has begun to market a new type of thermally
conductive phase change material (PCM) called the "PCS-LT Series".
Compared to existing PCM, this new product is softer and thus it is easy to
bond to substrates and is superior in reworkability.
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in inducing people with an amputated arm to experience a prosthetic rubber hand as belonging to their own body. The results can lead to the...
Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at the University of Illinois.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) and NASA have taken one small step backward to make one giant leap forward and help prepare for future missions to the moon and to Mars.
Goodyear and the NASA Glenn Re...
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