31-10-2013
HELPMESEE CELEBRA EL DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA VISTA PROBANDO CON ÉXITO UN SIMULADOR DE CIRUGÍA OCULAR DE REALIDAD VIRTUAL PARA CATARATA
East Aurora, NY, EE.UU., 31 de octubre de 2013 – En celebración del Día Mundial de la Vista, HelpMeSee –campaña mundial para la eliminación de la ceguera por catarata– y Moog –una empresa con presencia internacional diseñadora, fabricante e integradora de sistemas y componentes de control de precisión– han logrado un hito muy importante en la simulación de cirugía ocular al demostrar con éxito las posibilidades del primer simulador del mundo de prácticas quirúrgicas mediante realidad virtual especializado en cirugía manual de catarata con incisión pequeña (MSICS).
31-10-2013
DSM joins LIPA-Team to develop series production of advanced thermoplastic composites parts
Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announces it has joined the LIPA-Team, set up to develop an industrial process for the manufacture of endless-fibre-reinforced advanced thermoplastic composite parts. LIPA stands for "Lightweight Integrated Process Application." DSM will contribute with materials know-how and in-depth understanding of polyamide 6 applications.
31-10-2013
AVERY DENNISON’S GLOBAL MDO FILM IS HONOURED AT RINGIER TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD 2013
SHANGHAI, China – October 31, 2013 – Avery Dennison Corporation a global leader in the label and packaging industry, is winning acclaim across China with its Global MDO film. In July, it captured the “Technology Innovation Award” in the Packaging Material and Design Concept category of the Ringier Technology Innovation Award 2013, which recognizes the innovators in China's packaging industry each year.
31-10-2013
Clariant Opens New Innovation Center in Frankfurt
Muttenz, October 31, 2013 – Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is today officially opening its new EUR 100 million Clariant Innovation Center (CIC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The company’s new global hub for Research & Development (R&D) is based at the “Industriepark Höchst.” It will be the home of Clariant’s competence centers in chemical research and process technology as well as application laboratories for several Business Units and state-of-the art analytical laboratories . The CIC will also house the departments for Intellectual Property Management and New Business Development. As the corporation’s global hub, the CIC will ensure the coordination of Clariant’s world-wide R&D network, which includes centers across Europe, North America, Brazil, Japan, India and China.
30-10-2013
Energy saving benefits of Millad® NX™ 8000 validated with UL approved label
Ghent, Belgium - The energy-saving benefits of Milliken's new generation clarifier Millad® NX™ 8000 for polypropylene (PP) have been validated by the independent organisation UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories). The validation qualifies Milliken and eventually its customers, from converters to brand owners, to use an Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) label to highlight the energy consumption reductions achieved with the use of Millad NX 8000 in a transparent PP product.
30-10-2013
Clariant plans to divest Leather Services Business to Stahl
Muttenz, October 30, 2013 - Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced today that it plans to sell its Leather Services business to Stahl. Stahl Holdings B.V., majority-owned by Wendel Group, is a Dutch company providing high quality chemicals, dyes and coatings for leather and other applications. The combination of both businesses would create a global leader in leather chemicals with a higher growth profile than the stand-alone entities and with significant synergy potential.
30-10-2013
Clariant performance well on target after solid third quarter
CEO Hariolf Kottmann: "Clariant achieved a solid performance in the first nine months of 2013 as most businesses developed favorably under continuing challenging economic conditions around the globe. Good progress has been made in the repositioning of the business portfolio, with the divestment of underperforming businesses nearing completion. This will leave Clariant with a well-balanced portfolio that has promising long-term growth prospects in many areas of the specialty chemicals industry."
29-10-2013
Clariant Oil Services to Showcase Chemical Solutions and R&D Investments at OTC Brazil 2013
São Paulo, October 29, 2013 - Clariant Oil Services exhibits and participates in the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Brazil 2013, October 29-31, at Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
