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Stepanpol manufacturing plant located in Wesseling, Germany.Stepan has achieved ISO14001 accreditation for its Wesseling (Cologne, Germany) manufacturing plant. ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies a process for controlling and improving an organisation's environmental performance via a certified Environmental Management Programme.Gino Rombey, Plant Manager for the Wesseling ...
Uhde has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of a hydrochloric acid electrolysis plant by Yantai Juli Isocyanate Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane. The plant, with a production capacity of 100,000 tpa hydrochloric acid, will be constructed at Laiyang, Shandong Province, China, approximately 100 km north of Qingdao. Commissioning is scheduled ...
Second Foam Book from BaySystems is an invaluable educational and marketing tool for builders and contractorsBuilders and contractors looking for safety guidelines pertaining to spray polyurethane foam now have a resource right at their fingertips: the Foam Book from BaySystemsTM, the global polyurethane systems business of Bayer MaterialScience. This second Foam Book follows the successful ...
DirectSkinning technology is a new production process that improves cost efficiency in the production of injection molded parts in a single step. It has now been used for the first time with an aliphatic polyurethane material in the series production of vehicle interior parts. As part of a technology project devoted to the DirectSkinning process, fischer automotive systems GmbH and Bayer ...
In fact, it could almost be called the modern philosophers' stone. In the middle ages, alchemists searched in vain for the fabled philosophers' stone - a mythical substance which would transform base metals into gold or silver. The search is over for today's alchemists because Elastopor® H is the simple building block that has it all.As you know, energy conservation is becoming an ...
Bayer MaterialScience AG has acquired the worldwide marketing and usage rights for the innovative DURFLEX® track superstructure system from Hyperion Verwaltung GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The two companies have signed an agreement to this effect. Financial details have not been disclosed. The superstructure system stabilizes the ballast stones under rail tracks, thus enabling more ...
A new generation of cosolvent-free polyurethane dispersions from Bayer MaterialScience is further improving the performance of waterborne environmentally friendly two-component polyurethane coatings for various substrates. The coating films made using Bayhydrol® U dispersions display a wide spectrum of properties, ranging from hard through to flexible and a pleasant velvety soft feel. ...
Based on polyurethane foams and a special textile fabric Bayer MaterialScience has developed a viscoelastic carpet. Walking across this carpet feels like walking over soft moss. "The foam is designed not to be fully compressed underfoot, but only to a certain depth. Since the underfoot area yields without taking large parts of the surrounding area with it, the foam surrounds the foot and ...
To clean exterior plastic parts before applying a primer, the BMW works in Landshut has replaced its powerwash system with a CO2 snow jet system made by acp. Reasons for this include improved cost-effectiveness, sustainability and quality as well as a reduced footprint. A further benefit is an increase in design freedom. This is because water-drawing component geometries and the associated ...
Working in close collaboration, rail infrastructure experts edilon)(sedra and Huntsman Polyurethanes' European Business Development team have developed a new polyurethane (PU) foam that is dramatically reducing noise pollution on busy urban transport networks. Designed for use in vibration dampening elastomers, ACOUSTIFLEX V is versatile MDI-based foam (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) ...
