Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for Water Injection Technology (WIT)

Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for Water Injection Technology (WIT) Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for water injected cooling pipes:

Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces new polyamide materials which offer significantly improved acoustic performance

Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces new polyamide materials which offer 
significantly improved acoustic performance Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced the launch of two new polyamide grades offering acoustic performance that is superior to traditional engineering plastics. These new grades offer more than 4dB improvement versus other engineering plastics such as glass reinforced PP or PA.

Rhodia Engineering Plastics develops specific expertise in conductivity technology and launches a new pure polyamide solution for on-line painting of automotive vertical body panels

Rhodia Engineering Plastics develops specific expertise in conductivity technology and launches a new pure polyamide solution for on-line painting of automotive vertical body panels Brussels, June 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced it has developed specific expertise in conductivity technology allowing the creation of new products for exterior body panels. The first product introduction is a new grade specifically designed to meet the critical technical requirements for automotive vertical body panels - Technyl® A 238P5 M25.

Rhodia Polyamide Announces Further Price Increases for Polyamide 6 and 6.6 Resins and Compounds

St. Fons, France, September 10th, 2004 – Rhodia Polyamide announces a price increase of € 200 per metric ton for Rhodia’s PA 66 base resins and Rhodia’s Technyl® polyamide 6 & 66 compounds in Europe. This increase is effective as of September 13th, 2004.

Rhodia Polyamide Announces Further Price Increases for Polyamide 6.6 in Europe

St. Fons, France, June 10, 2004 – Rhodia Polyamide announced a price increase of €100 per metric ton for PA 66 base resins in Europe. Prices of PA 66 compounds will also be increased accordingly. These increases will be effective as of June 14th, 2004.

Pre K2004 Press Pack Rhodia Engineering Plastics

Pre-K Press Kit Rhodia Engineering Plastics

Rhodia Engineering Plastics’ New TECHNYL® ALLOY PA/ABS Now Used for Center Instrument Panel Fascia on GM-Daewoo Kalos Sedan

Rhodia Engineering Plastics’ New TECHNYL® ALLOY PA/ABS Now Used for Center Instrument Panel Fascia on GM-Daewoo Kalos Sedan Brussels, June 8 2004 – Rhodia’s recently introduced TECHNYL® ALLOY PA/ABS is currently being used for interior automotive applications, where its robust property profile, combined with ease of processability makes it an attractive alternative vs. traditional Polycarbonate (PC), PC/ABS and PC/PBT material alternatives. TECHNYL® ALLOY is currently used as the material for a high performance center instrument panel fascia for GM/DAEWOO new Kalos Sedan, which is now in production in South Korea.

Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces new plastic-metal hybrid materials for high-load bearing semi-structural components

Lyon, France, April 19, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics has developed a range of hybrid solutions that combine metals and engineering plastics to be used in high-load bearing (semi-) structural components. These closed structures, either with rib or hollow, are targeted especially at automotive applications, where they bring benefits such as potential parts integration, depth, weight and size reduction, cost savings, enhanced energy absorption, and added-value appearance.

Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches two new Technyl® polyamide grades for Water Injection Technology (WIT) to address evolving customer demands

Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches two new Technyl® polyamide grades for Water Injection Technology (WIT) to address evolving customer demands Detroit, MI, Mar. 8, 2004 – Rhodia Engineering Plastics today introduced two new Technyl® polyamide grades specifically designed for water injected cooling pipes: TECHNYL® A338 Wit1 V30 bk34N and TECHNYL® A338 Wit2 V30 bk34N. This major product introduction follows three years of dedicated research and process development work, including the development of Rhodia’s own WIT mold, water injectors and injection unit. The challenge of the Rhodia WIT development team was to find an optimal balance between water injection processability and glycol resistance in an application context where specific material properties are required to fit to the technology, while cooling circuit specifications are increasing.

Rhodia Engineering Plastics introduces new polyamide materials which offer significantly improved acoustic performance

New acoustic materials to replace composite designs like heavy layers or foams combine with standard plastics Lyon, France, April 5, 2004– Rhodia Engineering Plastics today announced the launch of two new polyamide grades offering acoustic performance that is superior to traditional engineering plastics. These new grades offer more than 4dB improvement versus other engineering plastics such as glass reinforced PP or PA.

Rhodia Engineering Plastics launches a new polyamide solution for automotive vertical body panels

Technyl® A 238P5 M25 is a new polyamide grade specifically designed to address vertical body panel needs. This material is electro-paintable, withstands the e-coat temperature up to 200°C and meets all critical application requirements in impact, surface appearance and processability.

Operational and commercial expertise recognised by the customers of Rhodia Polyamide Engineering Plastics, a European leader in this market

Rhodia Engineering Plastics regularly assesses its main customers’ satisfaction through annual surveys. In January 2004, Rhodia conducted an e-mail survey of a sample of contacts from the Purchasing, R&D, Technical Support, Quality and Supply Chain departments of its European customers.