Materials

Construction

Evonik Completes First Plant of New Nylon 12 Complex

Evonik appears to be on track with bringing its major new nylon 12 production complex to fruition.  

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Materials

Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Celluloid

In this series we’ll delve into a discerning look back into the history of our industry and how we all got here.  

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Materials

Comprehensive, High-Fidelity Materials Database for Simulation

Altair’s newly launched materials database for simulation  contains accurate data and data lineage for plastics, metals, and composites directly connected to Altair’s and other major solvers

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Additives

Former CEO, Owner of Heubach Group Dies

Owner of global pigments manufacturer Heubach passed away after a brief illness in Salzburg.

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Postconsumer

Nova Chemicals Becomes Lead Corporate Sponsor for the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Initiative

The Nova Chemicals sponsorship will help bring two more marinas into the GLPC Initiative, bringing the total number of marinas participating to date to 13.

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Automotive

Materials: High Viscosity PVDF for Extrusion

Arkema has commercialized the highly flexible, high viscosity Kynar Flex 3030-50 PVDF for extrusion processing

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Construction

Materials: First Flexible Acrylic Sheet Debuts on Arkema 4 Trimaran

Altuglas’s ShieldUp Flex flexible acrylic sheet is a major innovation in the world of transparent flexible plastic. 

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Materials

Processing Medical Plastics? Here's How to Minimize Risk

FDA now expects OEMs of healthcare products to also take responsibility for Tier 2 and 3 suppliers—making sure every supply-chain link is meeting Good Manufacturing Practices.

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Materials

DSM and Nedcam to Develop New Applications for Large-Size 3D Printing

Collaborating with DSM on material and 3D printing technology, Nedcam will offer commercial 3D printing production services to manufacturers looking for large-size applications, using DSM’s optimized pellet materials.

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Medical

Polyplastics to Expand Topas COC Production

New plant for ‘recyclable’ Topas cyclic olefin copolymer planned by Polyplastics                                                        

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