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Indorama Ventures agrees to buy Brazil-based Oxiteno to create a unique portfolio in high-value surfactants

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited , a global chemicals producer, today announced it agreed to acquire Brazil-based Oxiteno S.A. Indústria e Comércio, a subsidiary of Ultrapar Participações S.A. The acquisition gives IVL a unique portfolio in high-value surfactants and significantly extends its existing Integrated...

DIC, Seiren and Fukui Prefecture to Begin Providing Samples of Innovative Carbon Fiber–Reinforced Prepreg Sheet

DIC Corporation, Fukui-based Seiren Co., Ltd., and the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture—which recently completed a research project aimed at commercializing fast-curing prepreg made with carbon fiber composites for automotive applications that was chosen as a major research project by the New Energy...

Polyplastics Develops New Testing Method to Identify Gas Formation during Injection Molding

Polyplastics Co., Ltd., a leading global supplier of engineering thermoplastics, has developed a testing method that identifies gas formation during the injection molding process and helps to reduce mold deposits. The company’s Gas Investigation Method in Injection Molding (GIMIM) facilitates continuous molding and improves...

Taiwan’s Smart Plastic & Rubber Machinery Shapes Tomorrow with Efficient Green Production

As environmental awareness rises, efficient production and the recycling rates of plastic waste have become the most important issue in the plastics and rubber industry. In

Using microbes to remove microplastics from the environment

Today at the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference, Yang Liu, researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will discuss a new technique to trap and recover microplastics.

3DT’s New, Versatile BottleDyne Pro Quickly Treats Bottles for Better Adhesion

3DT’s newly engineered BottleDyne Pro is a corona treatment system for improving adhesion on cylindrical, plastic bottles. This fully integrated system invisibly alters