World of Polyurea
Following careful consideration, the management team of SURVEY Marketing & Consulting srl, Rimini/Italy, has decided to cancel this year's "ZOW Salone Internazionale dei Componenti ed Accessori per l'Industria del Mobile". ZOW founder Peter H. Meyer explained: "The fact that last year's move from the particularly problematic trade fair location of Pordenone to Verona, which...
In the town of Spittal, along the south bank of the Millstätter Lake (Carinthia, Austria) a new Lido-Restaurant is under construction. Designed by the famous architect Hans Hollein, this building is part of a five piece ensemble called "Artists-In-Residence", a project of the Soravia group.For 2 years people made do with a small, temporary kiosk at the Lido. This summer the new...
Effective immediately or as existing contracts allow, BASF is raising prices for its Polyetheramines portfolio globally by 100 Euros per metric ton or the equivalent amount in local currency. Polyetheramines are intermediate chemicals used in the production of plastics, polyurea coatings, adhesives, and reaction injection moulding (RIM). BASF has Polyetheramine manufacturing capacities at its...
The Hanson Group LLC has acquired Visuron Technologies, Inc. The Hanson Group LLC worked with Tom and Marcia Davis (previous owners of Visuron) for many years and recognizes Visuron Technologies, Inc. to be an innovative leader in the polyurea industry.Tom Davis was an outstanding visionary and a leading edge developer in Polyurea technology. His notable discoveries include patented high...
Dear Fellow PDA Europe Associate,in 2007, the PDA Europe was born to create a POLYUREA community in Europe. Our goals then - and now - were to establish a polyurea user network of contractors, formulators, material suppliers, owners, and specifiers and to take action so that the material "Polyurea" finds its way into standards and specifications under its own name and not under the...
ZOW – further dates and countries:Organizer: SURVEY Marketing + ConsultingGmbH & Co. KGMittelstr. 50, 33602 Bielefeld, GermanyPhone: +49-521-96533-55Fax: +49-521-96533-66E-mail: zow@survey.infowww.zow.infoZOW Istanbul, Turkey 16th – 19th September 2010ZOW Moscow, Russia 22nd – 26th September 2010ZOW Madrid, Spain 28th – 30th September 2010PDA Europe Board...
Sika AG has acquired a majority stake in Dyflex HD Co., Ltd., Japan. Dyflex is the market leader in liquid waterproofing in Japan with well established brands andchannels. The consolidated net sales in 2009 were approximately JPY 14 billion (about CHF 165 million) with around 350 employees. Dyflex was established in 1964 by Mr. Keisei Miura. The founder and CEO, Mr. Keisei Miura will stay with...
Both equipment and system suppliers always stress the importance of specialist training for polyurea processors. In fact some system manufacturers actually insist on such training as a condition for using their systems.The possibilities and the learning factors are consistently underestimated by processors, many of them still think their knowledge will come from „learning by doing"...
