Composites
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14 May 2007
BODY ARMOR WITH DYNEEMA® TO SERVE DURING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING
URMOND (NL), 14 May 2007 - Bullet-resistant vests and helmets made with ultra-strong, light weight Dyneema® unidirectional (UD) from DSM for personnel security will help China create a safer environment for the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. A vest design manufactured by Zhong Tian Feng Protection Products Technology Company Ltd. (ZTF), which features Dyneema® SB21, won a highly competitive and prestigious tender from the Beijing Bureau of Public Security.
10 May 2007
Rhodia Polyamide’s Engineering Plastics joins Omnexus (www.omnexus.com) to provide the global engineering plastics community with Innovations and Services
Lyon, France - May 10th, 2007 – Rhodia Polyamide’s Engineering Plastics activities and SpecialChem announce today their new partnership on the Omnexus Platform offering services to the plastics and elastomers engineering community.
Gent, Belgium – March 5th, 2007 - The Sumitomo Bakelite Group announces the acquisition of Neopreg AG, a Swiss producer of long fiber thermoset composites marketed under the trade names Kinel and Neonite. Neopreg, based in Gelterkinden, has unique technology for producing these composites that complements technologies used by Sumitomo’s existing specialty composites business. Neopreg will be integrated into Vyncolit N.V., Sumitomo’s subsidiary that produces moldable composites in Europe, but will retain its name. Henny van Dijk, President of Vyncolit N.V., has assumed leadership since February 19, 2007. 
January 26, 2007 – Reichhold has named chemicals distributor Univar as the company’s new distribution partner for vinyl ester resins in the United Kingdom (UK) under the brand names DION® and HYDREX®.