Avery Dennison® “Wrap Like A King” 2019 challenge opens for vehicle wrap submissions

Avery Dennison® “Wrap Like A King” 2019 challenge opens for vehicle wrap submissions.
(Photo: Avery Dennison, PR423)Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions has announced the opening of its annual Wrap Like A King Challenge. This year’s vehicle wrap competition will run from June 3 through August 30, 2019, and it will again include Regional Wrap Kings, Continental Wrap Kings and the crowning of the prestigious “King of the Wrap World.”

INEOS Styrolution in Ludwigshafen, Germany, benefits from B+K stretch hood packaging solution based on Styroflex®

INEOS Styrolution in Ludwigshafen, Germany, benefits from B+K stretch hood packaging solution based on Styroflex®.INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, and Bischof + Klein, a leading European full-service supplier of flexible plastic and laminate packaging and technical films, announce today the installation of a stretch hood packaging solution at the INEOS Styrolution production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Of particular interest is the fact that the packaging material used in the application is based on Styroflex®, an SBC copolymer produced by INEOS Styrolution.

TE Connectivity offers industrial discrete magnetics as part of a total industrial RJ45 solution

TE Connectivity offers industrial discrete magnetics as part of a total industrial RJ45 solution. 
(Source: TE Connectivity, PR228)TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, now offers industrial discrete magnetics for Ethernet, complementing existing RJ45 Jacks with integrated magnetics. Industrial discrete magnetics enable extra design flexibility in designing Ethernet Interfaces, with optimizations for improved transmission characteristics and over-voltage requirements.

SABIC hosts first European LNP™ anniversary technical summit

Over 70 delegates from customers in the Benelux region, Finland and the U.K. took in a series of talks on hot topics, as well as a mini exhibition highlighting key application areas for LNP materials.SABIC is holding a series of technical summits around the world to mark 70 years of its LNP product line of engineering thermoplastic compounds and copolymers. Following a series of events in Asia that began late last year, SABIC has initiated a schedule of events in cities across Europe and the USA.

INEOS Styrolution’s Novodur® high heat advances aesthetic appeal and processability for rear lamp housings

INEOS Styrolution’s Novodur® HH-112 used on automotive rear lamps 
(image courtesy of Minda Industries Limited – Lighting Division, 2019)INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announces today that Minda Industries Limited – Lighting Division, one of the leading automotive lamp manufacturers in India catering to Tier 1 automotive manufacturers in India, has selected the company’s specialty ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) Novodur® HH-112 for the rear lamp housing application of a leading 4-wheeler model in India.

Ascend to present new high-purity additives for paints and coatings at LACS 2019

Ascend to highlight new Hexatran™ and FlexaTram™-DAM high-performance additives at LACS 2019.
(Photo: Ascend Performance Materials, APMPR033)Ascend Performance Materials, a global leader in the production of plastics, fibers and chemicals, will present two newly introduced high-purity grades of its Hexatran™ and FlexaTram™-DAM high-performance amines for the paints and coatings industry at the Latin American Coatings Show (LACS) 2019.

DSM strengthens its market-leading position in high-performance specialty polymers

DSM strengthens its market-leading position in high-performance specialty polymers.
(Photo: DSM Engineering Plastics: DSMPR514)
Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, announced the strengthening of its leadership in high-performance specialty polymers with the operational launch of a new production line for Arnitel® in Emmen, the Netherlands. The capacity will be expanded by 20% and will enable greater supply flexibility and security.

Clariant Expands Range of FDA Compliant Rigid Desiccant Cards for Healthcare Packages 

ADP Plate. (Photo: Clariant)

New, printable ADP Plate molecular sieve desiccant cards (top) and colorful Dri-Card calcium chloride desiccant cards from Clariant Healthcare Packaging offer new moisture protection options for package designers. Both are now available worldwide and are produced under the applicable GMP requirements.Today, Clariant announced a new flat-profile molecular-sieve desiccant, ADP® Plate, along with an expanded line of Dri-Card laminated-film desiccant cards. Both products are FDA compliant.