New performance gasketing for the automotive industry

Henkel’s new gasketing technology allows for direct dispensation of a liquid gasket onto parts. 
(Photo: Henkel, PR083)Henkel has recently expanded its gasketing product portfolio by including new materials and technologies that have been specifically designed for the automotive industry. With higher oil resistance and proven lower gas permeability, Loctite AA 5884 is a new polyacrylate gasketing technology that enables customers to enhance the performance and reliability of their products, all while achieving productivity goals and reducing overall costs.

INEOS Styrolution sends 650 face shields to frontline workers in hard-hit areas across the US and donates $10,000 to local food banks for COVID-19 relief efforts

Photo: Edward Hospital emergency room nurses receive INEOS Styrolution face shield delivery, Naperville, Illinois. INEOS Styrolution has donated face shields to frontline healthcare workers in COVID-19, hard-hit regions across the US. The company’s regional, Americas headquarters, located in Aurora, Illinois issued additional community support with a $10,000 donation to local Chicago-area food banks.

DSM introduces new value offering to its high-performance fibers business

DSM introduces new value offering to its high-performance fibers business.
(Photo: DSM Protective Materials: DSMPMPR001)Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health, and Sustainable Living, today announces the launch of a value offering product portfolio for ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), Trosar™. In line with the growing demand for materials solutions that deliver higher strength and durability, Trosar™ will bring the unique benefits of UHMWPE within reach of more manufacturers, including those from the hard and soft ballistic UD, rope, netting, and aquaculture industries. The new material grade underlines DSM’s commitment to use science and innovation to deliver solutions that outperform conventional market alternatives.

Catch the wave. Clariant reveals BeautyForward® Edition 4 formulations to delight and inspire

Catch the wave. Clariant reveals BeautyForward Edition 4 formulations to delight and inspire. 
(Photo: Clariant)Playful textures to tempt digital-immersed Millennials, novel formats suited to active lifestyles, radiance nourishers for the over 55s. Clariant releases its first wave of inspirational formulations from trend insights BeautyForward Edition 4, guiding beauty product developers keen to get ahead in delighting the desires of specific global consumers.

Mondi safely packages QIAGEN’s SARS-CoV-2 test cartridge  

Mondi safely packages QIAGEN’s SARS-CoV-2 test cartridge. 
(Photo: Mondi, PR151)Mondi, a leading global packaging and paper group, is committed to playing its part in the supply of essential products during the COVID-19 outbreak and has recently developed packaging for QIAGEN's SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus test kit.

Press Glass i Guardian Glass wspierają budowę drugiego polskiego Domu Fundacji Ronalda McDonalda

Press Glass i Guardian Glass wspierają budowę drugiego polskiego Domu Fundacji Ronalda McDonalda. Fot: Michał Teperek, Dział Fotomedyczny WUM dla Fundacji Ronalda McDonalda.
(Zdjęcia Guardian Glass, LLC, GRDPR181) Press Glass, czołowy europejski producent szyb, we współpracy z jednym ze swoich globalnych dostawców szkła, firmą Guardian Glass, dołączyli do grona partnerów wspierających budowę „domu, poza domem w czasie choroby dziecka” w Warszawie.

Clariant’s ShiftMax® 300 MTS catalyst delivers excellent performance at BHCC hydrogen unit in Zhejiang, China

The hydrogen production unit of Zhejiang Baling Hengyi Caprolactam Co Ltd (BHCC), located in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou in Zhejiang, China. 
(Photo: Clariant)The partnership between Clariant and Shanghai Huaxi is off to a successful start. Since the establishment of their strategic alliance in late January of 2018, the two companies took on a major joint project to enhance the hydrogen production unit of Zhejiang Baling Hengyi Caprolactam Co Ltd (BHCC), located in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou in Zhejiang, China.

ELIX Polymers joins the fight against COVID-19 with biocompatible ABS grades for medical devices

Medical masks.
(Photo courtesy of the Noumena company, PR058)Leading ABS producer ELIX Polymers is collaborating with a large group of companies within ClusterMAV, the Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalonia, Spain, in the fight against COVID-19. The partners are working in collaboration with the National Federation of Innovative Business Groups and Clusters (FENAEIC), which focuses on promoting collaboration between federations, clusters and their partners, within the European Cluster collaboration platform.