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The new "eat on-the-go" culture of consumers creates a new and steadily growing demand for flexible packaging applications with excellent performance properties as well as environmental soundness. Current retort ink resin technologies have fallen short in the area of performance such as compatibility with standard ink resins, alcohol solubility to allow for flexographic printing, and...
Production cost savings and improved levels of fire safety are now available to the manufacturers of mineral wool construction panels, thanks to a brand new A2-adhesive that can be applied sparingly, yet deliver the same results as traditional solutions. KLEIBERIT® Klebchemie, a leading manufacturer of high-performance adhesives, has launched PanelPur® A2 577 - a low-viscosity, EN 14509...
The market of „green" raw materials for the production of 100 % PU coatings experiences high demand. With regards to environmental sustainability, the renewable resource aspect of specialty chemicals is getting more important. Concurrently, each and every coating has to fulfill the highest technical standards in order to be competitive. Outstanding performance...
To mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the French automobile marque of Bugatti, the world's biggest car museum, Cité de l'Automobile, Schlumpf Collection, is having its collection restored to reproduce the original exhibits. In the process, following the motto of "the best deserve only the best", the experts are putting their faith in the Classic Car Colors of...
Chemie.DE: Thinky Mixer are designed to mix, disperse and de-agglomerate all types of materials in seconds or minutes in the laboratory/pilot-plant/production.Typical application are the formulation and mixing of adhesives, epoxy, sealants, cosmetics, injection moldings, ceramic slurries, dental cement, solder pastes, etc.The amount of sample can vary from 0.5 ml to 5 liter volume, devices with...
Around one and one-half years after the construction start, BASF Coatings has officially launched its new production and lab capacities for basecoats at the Würzburg site. At the opening ceremony, Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, Member of the Board of BASF SE, Dr. Walter Jouck, Würzburg Site Manager, Bernhard Zentgraf, Chairperson of BASF Coatings‘ works council at the...
ContiTech AG is confident that it will close fiscal 2009 successfully. "We are convinced that ContiTech will be one of the companies that emerge from the global economic crises all the stronger," said Heinz-Gerhard Wente, CEO of ContiTech AG, at a press conference at the Hannover Messe. Wente substantiated his optimism with the good positioning of the company: "In the meantime,...
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) has formed a new business unit focused on the coatings market following Dow's acquisition of Rohm and Haas in April 2009. Dow Coating Materials combines the resources and technologies of Dow Coating Solutions and the recently-acquired Rohm and Haas Paint and Coating Materials to create the leading supplier of raw materials for architectural and industrial...
Storing a 9,160 ton colossus with Elastocoat® C unsupported on a gigantic ‘egg cup' is a huge challenge. But that did not stop our client, Evonik Degussa, from coming up with an innovative solution.Evonik Degussa started with the right crane and elastomer. The team then added an enormous steel ball with a diameter of around 25 metres, a concrete foundation as big as a monster egg cup,...
The demand for FDA-compliant sealing and milled part solutions in colors that differ from those of standard materials is continuously growing. "At this year's Anuga trade fair for the food industry we were frequently asked about blue sealing solutions for the food and beverage industry," says the manufacturer for sealing solutions and engineered plastic parts. This demand is based on...
