Asahi Kasei Plastics North America Suppliers Showroom

Asahi Kasei Showing Engineered Plastics Including Recycled PP and Nylon, 3D Printing Filaments, and Asaclean Plus Purging Concentrate

NPE2024: Xyron and Thermylene engineered resins include recycled versions and new 3D printing filaments highlighted, as well as Asaclean Plus purging concentrate.

Use Purging Compounds to Mitigate Processing Challenges of PCR and PIR

With frequent purging, you can minimize serious contamination issues and get both better results and higher profits.

Asahi Kasei Plastics North America Welcomes New President and COO

With APNA’s president and COO Todd Glogovsky’s retirement April 1, his successor will be v.p. of commercial sales Phani Nagaraj

Promotions at Asahi Kasei Plastics North America

Tom Hanvey and Yoko Tanaka move onto new positions.

Asahi Kasei and Mitsui to Collaborate on Biomethanol Supply and Procurement Systems

Asahi will use the biomethanol to produce engineering resins such as acetal.

Joint Project Will Demonstrate Recycling Polyamide 66 Using Microwave Technology

Materials producer Asahi Kasei and recycling technology developer Microwave Chemical announced a joint chemical recycling project.

Asahi Kasei Plastics North America Merges with Asahi Kasei Asaclean Americas

Merged entity to further boost best-in-class manufacturing services.

Asahi Kasei Collaborates on Development of High-Quality Recycled Carbon Fiber

Working with academic partners, Asahi Kasei has developed new technology for recycling carbon fiber plastic compounds.

Knock-Knock: The Sustainability Auditors Are Here

It won’t be long before you have an appointment with the Sustainability auditors, especially if you serve large customers in sensitive industries like medical and pharma.

Resins & Additives for Sustainability in Vehicles, Electronics, Packaging & Medical

Material suppliers have been stepping up with resins and additives for the ‘circular economy,’ ranging from mechanically or chemically recycled to biobased content.

Asahi Kasei Aims for ‘First-to-Market’ of a More Sustainable Nylon 66

In addition, Asahi Kasei Plastics North America (APNA) is on a roll with its expanded Leona portfolio of specialty nylon 66-based compounds.

Genomatica and Aquafil Start Pre-Commercial Plant-Based Nylon 6 Production

Quantities available for evaluation in nylon applications ranging from yarns for textile and carpet to engineering thermoplastics.

Halogen-Free & Red-Phosphorus-Free FR Nylon 66 for E&E, Automotive

Asahi Kasei’s Leona SN boasts excellent retention of properties, good surface appearance and laser transparency and printability.

Asahi Kasei to Provide Carbon Footprint Data for Its Plastic Resins

The company has established a platform with NTT Data to grasp the amount of GHG emissions and calculate the carbon footprint for each of its high-performance resins.

Genomatica and Asahi Kasei Collaborate on Renewably-Sourced Nylon 66

Parnership will accelerate momentum for Genomatica’s new route to HMD and Ashai Kasei’s sustainability strategy

SPE Automotive Awards Give Nod to 'Firsts' & Pandemic Solutions

The 50th annual automotive innovations awards recognized several “firsts” and an added category of innovative solutions for COVID-19 protection.

Foam PP to Improve Sustainability and Cost

Cost-effective use of PP is a major consideration, but the biggest driver of PP foaming is pursuit of sustainability.

The Experts Speak: Seven Cost-Saving Purging Tips for Compounding Twins

Purging gurus from the material, machinery and compounding sides of the industry offer their insights on best practices and tips that can keep your compounding twin-screw extruder up and running.

Materials: Novel Nylon 66 and Modified PPE Foams for Automotive

Asahi Kasei develops ‘first’ nylon 66 bead and modified PPE foams for challenging automotive applications.

Several Thermoplastic 'Firsts' Among 2018 SPE Automotive Awards

With the addition of an Additive Manufacturing slot, all nine categories exemplify innovation and transferability in the use of plastics.

Joseph Serell Named President of Sun Plastech

Serell replaces Glenn Kornfeld, who had been president since 2004, as the head of the maker of Asaclean purging compounds.

News Highlights from NPE2018

Developments in Industry 4.0, multi-layer preform molding, automation, LSR processing, and PP were among the major newsbreakers at May’s show. And one film processor finalized purchases of 13 new lines.

PP Formulations for Smooth-Surface Foam

Collaboration produces 10%-glass PP for the MuCell foam process without surface swirl.

Polyolefins Innovation: Automotive, Packaging, Pipe, Furniture, Flooring, Films

New materials and processes for injection and blow molding, extrusion, compounding, and thermoforming were discussed at the recent SPE Polyolefins Conference.

APPLICATIONS: Ultra-High-Flow TPV Enables Thinner Instrument Panels

TPV with an exceptional high melt flow rate simplified the deployment of soft, injection moldable instrument panel skins across global platforms for the 2014 Nissan Sentra.

MATERIALS AT NPE: All Market Sectors Benefit from Large Crop of New Materials

Higher-performance and easier processing PE film resins for packaging, a one-pass crosslinked PE for photovoltaic (PV) wire and cable, several higher-performing nylons and TPEs, “greener” plastics, and enhanced styrenic and PC resins are among the new materials that made their debut at the big show in Orlando, Fla., last month.

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