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More than 4 million vehicles are pretreated annually with Henkel’s next-generation metal pretreatment process, which today received the second-place award in the sustainability category of the 2021 Altair Enlighten Awards. The award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements in the automotive industry. Henkel’s...

The Covid-19 pandemic has further fueled the automation megatrend. While Syntegon has been offering robotic solutions for decades, the newly developed pick-and-place platform, Syntegon RPP, sets new standards in the automation of packaging lines. The modular and highly flexible platform automates process steps such...

A big push to women into exercise and encourages them to move forward in this competitive world. Dr. Chitrakala Mohan, an electrical engineer working at Freudenberg training Centre in Nagapattinam, India, is a prime example. Betting all the odds at the age of 39,...

Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase prices for products in its additives portfolio for plastic applications globally by up to 20 percent. The price adjustment is primarily required due to significant volatility in pricing and availability for essential raw materials...

Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, announced the opening of its first full-scale additive manufacturing customer center; Netxtfactory in Ventura CA, in partnership with Henkel. Co-located within the Nexa3D global headquarters, Netxtfactory provides current and potential customers with direct access to each aspect...

Climate neutrality targeted by 2040 Material and technology solutions for charging infrastructure and driver assistance systems Resource-conserving recycled materials Lightweight solutions for vehicle batteries   Cologne, August, 2021 – LANXESS will be focusing its appearance at the 2021 VDI “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” (PIAE) congress...