22 Jun 2009
Press Kit SABIC Innovative Plastics - NPE, Chicago, June 22-26, 2009
SABIC Reaffirms Commitment to Plastics Industry with Diverse, Customer-Valued Materials Solutions Showcased in Booth W123011 at NPE 2009
At NPE 2009, SABIC today launched its latest material solutions designed to help customers around the globe meet today’s most pressing demands and challenges. In multiple sectors worldwide, SABIC’s expansive product portfolio is helping to drive environmental responsibility, penetrate new markets and application areas, and enable customers to differentiate their products, all while increasing productivity and reducing manufacturing costs. SABIC’s impressive display here in booth W123011 showcases an array of new breakthrough end products from its co-development efforts with leading OEMs – such as Ford, Samsung, Motorola, and Toyota – underscoring how the company continues to be the supplier of choice among many of the world’s top global brands.
SABIC Reaffirms Commitment to Plastics Industry with Diverse, Customer-Valued Materials Solutions Showcased in Booth W123011 at NPE 2009
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – At NPE 2009, SABIC today launched its latest material solutions designed to help customers around the globe meet today’s most pressing demands and challenges. In multiple sectors worldwide, SABIC’s expansive product portfolio is helping to drive environmental responsibility, penetrate new markets and application areas, and enable customers to differentiate their products, all while increasing productivity and reducing manufacturing costs. SABIC’s impressive display here in booth W123011 showcases an array of new breakthrough end products from its co-development efforts with leading OEMs – such as Ford, Samsung, Motorola, and Toyota – underscoring how the company continues to be the supplier of choice among many of the world’s top global brands.
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Next-Gen Lexan* EXL Resin Gives Motorola Customized Environmental-Edge for World’s First Carbon Neutral Phone
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – SABIC Innovative Plastics’ and Motorola’s close collaboration has resulted in the co-development of new Lexan* EXL 8414 polycarbonate (PC) resin, a sustainable, high-tech and fully customized thermoplastic resin made specifically for Motorola’s MOTO™ W233 Renew mobile phone – the world’s first certified carbon neutral device. The new, eco-engineered resin contains up to 25 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) content from discarded water bottles; takes approximately 20 percent less energy to process; and, in addition to greatly enhanced sustainability, gives the new Motorola Renew exceptional high-performance properties. SABIC Innovative Plastics introduced the new Lexan* EXL 8414 resin technology here today at NPE 2009 in booth W123011.
Exatec* Glazing Shifts into High-Gear Production of Protective Shields Based on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Tough Lexan* Sheet for the TTC
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – Today at NPE 2009, SABIC Innovative Plastics introduced a new, high-tech shield to enhance the protection of transit operators in Toronto. This new high-value operator protection is made of Lexan* sheet and coated with the Exatec* E900 advanced plasma technology at Exatec’s facility in Wixom, Mich. The combined high impact strength and optical clarity of Lexan sheet and the excellent abrasion resistance of the Exatec coating, led the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to equip its fleet with new shields to help prevent assaults on TTC operators, which average one per day. The advanced Lexan sheet/Exatec E900 plasma technology shield is SABIC Innovative Plastics’ latest example of how it is addressing critical customer needs with practical yet highly advanced material innovations.
SABIC Innovative Plastics Helps Gocycle® Cruise to Success with Durable Parts Made from Tough, Lightweight LNP* Verton* Specialty Compound
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – Underscoring its focus on customer collaboration and innovation, SABIC Innovative Plastics has helped a key customer – Karbon Kinetics Ltd. (KKL) – break away from the pack and ride to success with a unique new bicycle that uses high-value Verton* RV00CE specialty compound. KKL’s new Gocycle® electric bicycle – on display here at NPE 2009 in SABIC booth W123011 – is the lightest production electric bicycle in the world. It weighs just 16.2kg and yet is extremely durable, thanks in large part to high-performance Verton composite, a 60-percent long glass fiber-reinforced nylon composite that gives the award-winning Gocycle extreme stiffness, impact strength, exceptional toughness and reliability. The new fold-up bicycle offers clean electric power and an aesthetic, seamless design that gives the rider a no-effort ride with no emissions. It is an environmentally responsible, low-cost urban transport solution that meets all European Union (EU) and U.S. city cycle testing standards.
New Ultem* Composites, Foam and Fiber from SABIC Innovative Plastics
Redefine Extreme Performance for Major Customer Growth Opportunities
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – SABIC Innovative Plastics has leap-frogged its Ultem* resin technology to advanced new levels of extreme performance with today’s launch of new leading-edge Ultem composite, fiber and foam technologies at NPE 2009. These new products have been specifically engineered to give customers a previously unavailable competitive edge: advanced new materials technology solutions that create virtually unlimited growth opportunities in existing, new and emerging markets. The new materials build on the company’s hugely successful Ultem polyetherimide (PEI) resin, an industry-renowned workhorse thermoplastic that has given customers years of reliable, extreme performance for the most demanding and high-heat resistant applications. SABIC Innovative Plastics is exhibiting the new Ultem materials here in booth W123011.
SABIC Innovative Plastics’ New Bio-Based Composites Give Customers Greatly Expanded Options for More Impactful Sustainable Products
CHICAGO – June 22, 2009 – SABIC Innovative Plastics is once again driving forward the development of eco-progressive materials as the race to replace finite resources, like petroleum with more impactful eco technologies, continues to accelerate. In its latest move, the company is helping customers create new sustainable solutions by delivering a first: two products in a new line of LNP* Thermocomp* specialty compounds that use curauá fiber and wood flour natural reinforcements. The new bio-based materials are being launched here today at NPE 2009 in SABIC’s booth W123011 and underscore SABIC Innovative Plastics’ commitment to a cleaner and healthier environment. Simultaneously the new materials are showcasing how the company is also giving customers greater options to create next-generation sustainable solutions to differentiate their products, grow current markets, expand into new sustainable market and application areas, and increase overall productivity and profitability.
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About SABIC Innovative Plastics
SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading, global supplier of engineering thermoplastics with a 75-year history of breakthrough solutions that solve its customers’ most pressing challenges. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar company with operations in more than 25 countries and over 9,500 employees worldwide. The company continues to lead the plastics industry with customer collaboration and continued investments in new polymer technologies, global application development, process technologies, and environmentally responsible solutions that serve diverse markets such as automotive, electronics, building & construction, transportation, and healthcare. The company’s extensive product portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics (www.sabic-ip.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top five petrochemicals manufacturers.
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