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The Recycling Committee of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association announced two new recycling programs – a web site dedicated to the plastics recycling marketplace and a webinar that will examine the “green fence” scrap import enforcement activity currently being undertaken by the Chinese government.  Both initiatives illustrate the commitment the association made when it revised its
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Foster Corporation introduces ProPell™ thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polyether block amide (PEBA) compounds for improved manufacturing and handling of medical catheters.  These new compounds dramatically reduce tackiness and friction in soft, flexible polymers while maintaining other physical properties of the unmodified polymers.
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The new BlueWave^® LED DX-1000 VisiCure™ from Dymax is an LED light-curing system which produces visible light energy in a relatively narrow wavelength band centered at 405 nm.  This system is designed to provide users with significant advantages over conventional lamp-curing systems including cooler curing temperatures for thermally sensitive substrates, lower intensity degradat
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Dow Electrical & Telecommunications (Dow E&T), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow"), is participated in CIRED 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden (June 10-13), using the biennial forum for the international electricity distribution community to showcase innovations in its next-generation DOW ENDURANCE™ tree-retardant crosslinked polyethylene (TR-XLPE) compound.
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The “electronic nose” sensor developed by a University of California, Riverside engineering professor, and being commercialized by Innovation Economy Crowd (ieCrowd), will be further refined to detect deadly pathogens including toxic pesticides in the global food supply chain, according to a recently signed product development and distribution agreement.
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Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, announced that Fortron^® FX4382T1 polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Union (EU) food-contact regulations.
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Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, is the first engineering plastics supplier to offer a full portfolio of materials that can replace thermosets in demanding molded-case circuit breakers (MCCBs) with open arc extinguishing chambers.
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Leading polyolefins additives supplier Milliken will greet K 2013 visitors with a full package of value-adding product innovations and services focused around the industry’s priority themes of clarity & aesthetics, productivity improvement, property optimization, and sustainability.
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From June 11 to 13, Bayer MaterialScience is presenting solvent-free Impranil^® raw materials for coating the textiles used for car seats and sports and fashion goods at the TechTextil 2013 trade fair in Frankfurt.
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Riverdale Global, a new company formed to provide plastics processors in the U.S.
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