Automotive

Mexico’s Auto Market Accelerates, Brings Plastics Along

Mexico’s booming automotive industry inevitably became part of the conversation with exhibitors at the country’s largest plastics trade fair, Plastimagen.

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Automotive

Bayer Exploring Use of CO2 to Make Plastics

With one application near commercialization, Bayer's research into CO2 as a raw material for making plastics looks promising.

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Ford Recognizes Extol in SPE Automotive Innovation Awards

Cited for hot-plate weld tooling used to make glove box.

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Ineos Completes Full Acquisition of Styrolution

Now fully-owned by Ineos, Styrolution will continue to operate as a stand-alone ´óÏó´«Ã½ within Ineos Industries Holdings.

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Automotive

Italian Compounder Starts Up U.S. Production

The So.F.Ter Group has brought on line its first U.S. plant to produce a broad range of compounds.

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Automotive

Advancements Discussed At Plating-On-Plastic Summit

MacDermid hosted a Plastic-On-Plastic Summit where the latest advancements in POP technology were discussed.

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Expanded NPE3D Pavilion Announced By SPI

Eighteen companies are already planning to exhibit in the newly-expanded NPE3D pavillion at NPE2015.

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Medical

NPE2015: The Right Show at the Right Time

In recent years, plastics trade shows in North America have sometimes been written off as out of fashion and in decline. But in around 140 days, a giant plastics trade show in Orlando seems likely to quash emphatically any notions of irrelevance for such industry events.

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Clearly a Contender

LSR Vies for New Applications in Automotive, Lighting, Healthcare, and More.

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Elastomers

Celanese Acquires Conductive Plastics Compounder

The acquisition of Cool Polymers includes its thermally and electrically conductive compounds, as well as electrically insulative compounds, based on a variety of engineering plastics and elastomers.

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Plastics Size Reduction