Polymeric Materials

Alloys like bronze and steel have been transformational for centuries, yielding top-of-the-line machines necessary for industry. As scientists move toward nanotechnology, however, the focus has shifted toward creating alloys at the nanometer scale—producing materials with properties unlike their predecessors.
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Milliken & Company will present its advanced additives for packaging applications at PACKEX Toronto (Booth #663), on May 14-16. The company’s next-generation Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifier for polypropylene (PP) and Hyperform® HPN nucleating agents for PP and polyethylene (PE), offer molders and manufacturers a new level of aesthetics, processing efficiency and sustainability.
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In the Hibassk high-barrier film made by the Dutch company A. van den Broek BV, a DuPont™ Surlyn^® sealant layer helps to ensure that the red colour of vacuum skin packed meat will be preserved for a longer time and that the typical odour associated with conventional nylon-polyethylene film packaging is prevented from forming.
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SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), a leader in high quality, Single-Wall and Specialty Multi-Wall (SMW™) Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) is introducing three new research grade carbon nanotube products.

The new SWeNT products will now be offered to the research market by Aldrich^® Materials Science, a technology growth initiative within Sigma-Aldrich.
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On building exteriors and inside malls across America, businesses are using channel letters to attract attention and set themselves apart from the competition. When it comes to selecting a plastic sheet material that can meet the rigorous requirements of channel letters and other thermoformed applications, all signs point to Bayer MaterialScience LLC.
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When Samtec Inc.
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Visitors attending the European Coatings SHOW 2013 will be introduced to a broad range of dispersions, high performance, metallic and special effect pigments from Sun Chemical Performance Pigments that can meet sustainability needs, maintain high color strength, and give added durability in a variety of harsh conditions in the automotive, industrial, waterborne and architectural coatings market
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Three new thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) wire and cable compounds from Teknor Apex Company combine the rubber-like durability and flexibility valued by hospital and clinical professionals and the high degree of purity required for meeting stringent medical standards, the company announced. Teknor Apex will introduce the compounds at Interwire 2013 (Booth 406).
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With the launch of the new metallocene polyethylene (mPE) film material Lumicene® Supertough 32ST05, Total introduces a unique opportunity for flexible packaging converters to achieve films that are up to 25% thinner and stronger than existing solutions for film on the market.

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