Industries and Markets

Bluestar Silicones has been showing its Silbione® brand soft silicone technologies at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West Conference (Booth #1761). These technologies include low durometer liquid silicone rubber (LSR), room temperature vulcanized (RTV) silicones, gels and skin adhesives, and it’s new patent pending silicone foam.
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To mark the 75^th anniversary of the discovery of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) by a DuPont scientist, the DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts (DuPont) is calling for entries to the 2013 Plunkett Awards.
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REIS starts delivery of robot systems with its new reisPAD portable teach pendant.
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EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ , two e-book subscription collections designed to support the learning and reference needs of engineering and technology professionals. The collections are available as annual subscriptions that give users unlimited access to all titles.
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Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is presenting its products for the paint and coatings industry under the theme “Pigments and Protection” at the European Coatings Show in Nuremberg, from March 19 to 21, 2013.
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KRAIBURG TPE has announced its participation at the Plastimagen Mexico 2013 trade show March 12-15 in Mexico City, Mexico. This will be the first appearance for KRAIBURG TPE Americas at Plastimagen (Booth #1638). The decision was made to participate in this year’s trade show due to growing business opportunities with key end users and processors in Mexico.
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Automatik Plastics Machinery has long been committed to the prudent use of all required resources in line with its corporate social responsibility. The issue of sustainability is an integral element of current planning, and is embedded as a principle in many different areas of the company's activities.
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Rapid News Communications Group, the publisher of British Plastics and Rubber, European Plastic Product Manufacturer, Medical Plastics News and Middle Eastern Plastics, and the organiser of the Interplas and Mediplas UK events, has launched a new directory platform which will serve the global plastic processing sector.
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Arnitel^© Eco thermoplastic copolyester from DSM has been used successfully in soft touch surfaces by a world leading manufacturer of consumer electronics. Applied to the surface using a 2K molding technique, enabling cost efficient mass production, Arnitel Eco helps to create an almost skin-like feeling to the surfaces of electronic devices, like notebooks and tablets.
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