14 Oct 2003
GE Plastics Europe Press Kit Fakuma 2003
At Fakuma 2003 (Friedrichshafen, Germany, 14-18 October 2003) GE Plastics presented the following:
GE PLASTICS OFFERS INDUSTRY’S BROADEST RANGE OF THERMOFORMABLE PRODUCTS AND PROCESS INNOVATIONS
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands — Oct. 2003— GE Plastics has extended its line of thermoformable resins, sheet products, with an impressive array of new thermformable materials including:
INNOVATIVE NORYL® PKN RESIN FROM GE PLASTICS DESIGNED FOR FREEZER-TO-MICROWAVE PACKAGING
Bergen op Zoom - September 2003 - Based on growing demand for ready to cook; freezer to microwave meals, a number of exciting new products and technologies have just been created to address the increasing market for more aesthetically versatile, cost efficient, and environmentally sensitive materials.
LEXAN® SLX FILM AND XENOY® RESIN MAKE A GREAT DUO FOR AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS
BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands - June 23, 2003 - Smart GmbH, a European auto manufacturer best known for Smart™ city car brand and business unit of Daimler Chrysler AG, has selected GE Plastics’ new LEXAN® SLX film for the hard top cover application of its new Smart Roadster-Coupe. The body panels on both the new Smart Roadster and Smart Roadster-Coupe also use molded-in-color and impact-resistant XENOY® resin from
GE Plastics.
GE PLASTICS LATEST X GEN™ RESIN TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO DELIVERS A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF PERFORMANCE
BERGEN OP ZOOM —June 23, 2003—GE Plastics, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced a new portfolio of resins that combines outstanding GE product engineering with extreme product performance. This advanced technology will be marketed under the “X GEN™ resin” brand.
GE PLASTICS BROADENS VISUALfx™ RESINS PORTFOLIO WITH BLACK AND WHITE EFFECTS
BERGEN OP ZOOM—June 23, 2003—Black and white may seem like primary colors to the general populace, but in the exclusive world of product designers these colors are the next “hot” trend. According to a 2003 color and effects guide developed for GE Plastics by design and strategy consultancy Polymer Solutions Inc., a joint venture between industry design giant Fitch Richardson Smith, Inc., and GE, black and white -- plus all the variations on each -- will be a key consumer product design element over the next year. Responding to this trend, GE Plastics unveiled a new dark and light palette for its Visualfx™ resin portfolio that includes new Earth Elements, Glacial Elements, Alliage™ resin effect and Tempulse™ resin effect.
Fact sheet
Overview: GE Plastics is a global plastics materials supplier and distributor, which serves customers in a variety of industries including aerospace, appliances, automotive, building and construction, data storage and optical media, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications, computers and peripheral devices, outdoor vehicles and devices, and packaging. Through the GE brand, GE Plastics helps its customers achieve a competitive edge through productivity, performance and design differentiation, and on-line services for fulfillment, design, appearance and technical support.
Reader enquiries
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Fax: +31 164 29 10 66
Netherlands
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Micro Compact Cars (MCC), a European auto manufacturer has selected GE Plastics’ new LEXAN® SLX film for the hard top cover application of its new Smart Roadster-Coupe. The body panels on the both the new Smart Roadster and Smart Roadster-Coupe also use molded-in-color and impact-resistant XENOY® resin from GE Plastics. The new Smart Roadster, only available in Europe, will be displayed the first time in the U.S. in the GE Plastics’ booth at the National Plastics Exposition in Chicago.
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