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INCHEBA 94
Additivesfor Polymers
March 1994
COMPANY
NEWS
Great Lakes additives in the UK The full range of additives for polymers supplied by the Great Lakes Chemical Group in the USA is now available from the company’s UK offices at Ellesmere Port. Contact: Great Lakes Chemical (Europe) Ltd, PO Box 44, Oil Sites Road, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, L65 4GD, UK. Tel: +44-51354-8542. Fax: +44-51-356-8636.
New headquarters for Cabot Plastics Cabot Plastics International has moved its headquarters from Brussels to the Research Park of Haasrode, close to Leuven, Belgium. The new location will optimise communications as it is less than 20 minutes from the airport and also has good access to the European motorway network and the company’s Belgian plants. The new address is: Cabot Plastics International, Interleuvenlaan 5, B-3&N Leuvan, Belgium. Tel: +32-16-39-01-11. Fax: +32-l 6-40-12-53.
Air Products additives division As part of reorganizing its chemical group, Air Products and Chemicals Inc in the USA has realigned its polyurethane chemicals business along additives and intermediate chemicals business segments. The reorganization focuses Air Products on better serving customers by integrating businesses with similar characteristics, technical service and application development requirements. Air Products’ extensive line of polyurethane additives are now grouped with other highperformance speciality chemicals, while the company’s polyurethane intermediates business will be merged with other highvolume specification chemicals. Air Products’ polyurethane additives business, including silicone surfactants, catalysts, release agents, sprayable concentrates and its polyurethane prepolymers business, are now part of the new Polyurethane and Performance Chemical Division. Contact: Air Products and Chemicals Inc, 7201 Hamilton Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18195, USA. Tel: + l-215-481 -6724.
DIARY AmeriHaas/Dead Sea Bromine fire retardant agreement Through an arrangement with the Dead Sea Bromine Group and Dead Sea Periclase, AmeriHaas will offer commercial quantities of several grades of magnesium hydroxide (FR-20), which allows production of nonflame-retarded low-smoke, halogen, thermoplastics without high filler loadings.
INCHEBA 94 The 26th International Chemical Fair, INCHEBA 94, will be held in the Park of Culture and Leisure in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 20-24 June 1994. This is the oldest chemical fair in Central Europe. Contact: Incheba Co Ltd, 852 51 Bratislava, Viedenska Cesta 7, Czechoslovakia. Tel: +42-801-111. Fax: +42-00427-847-982.
Available in several coated versions and an uncoated version, FR-20 also provides improved flowability and colour maintenance by keeping its crystal aspect ratios within a narrowly defined range.
Europlast 94
Contact: AmeriHaas, Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19105, USA. Tel: + l-800-356-3402. Fax: + l-215-592-2285.
Contact: Promosalons, The Colonnades, 82 Bishops Bridge Road, London, W2 6BB, UK. Tel: +44-71-221-3660.
O1994 Elsevier Science Ltd
The Europlast 94 exhibition will be held at the Paris-Nord Exhibition Centre, France, 3-7 October 1994.
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March 1994
COMPANY
NEWS
Great Lakes additives in the UK The full range of additives for polymers supplied by the Great Lakes Chemical Group in the USA is now available from the company’s UK offices at Ellesmere Port. Contact: Great Lakes Chemical (Europe) Ltd, PO Box 44, Oil Sites Road, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, L65 4GD, UK. Tel: +44-51354-8542. Fax: +44-51-356-8636.
New headquarters for Cabot Plastics Cabot Plastics International has moved its headquarters from Brussels to the Research Park of Haasrode, close to Leuven, Belgium. The new location will optimise communications as it is less than 20 minutes from the airport and also has good access to the European motorway network and the company’s Belgian plants. The new address is: Cabot Plastics International, Interleuvenlaan 5, B-3&N Leuvan, Belgium. Tel: +32-16-39-01-11. Fax: +32-l 6-40-12-53.
Air Products additives division As part of reorganizing its chemical group, Air Products and Chemicals Inc in the USA has realigned its polyurethane chemicals business along additives and intermediate chemicals business segments. The reorganization focuses Air Products on better serving customers by integrating businesses with similar characteristics, technical service and application development requirements. Air Products’ extensive line of polyurethane additives are now grouped with other highperformance speciality chemicals, while the company’s polyurethane intermediates business will be merged with other highvolume specification chemicals. Air Products’ polyurethane additives business, including silicone surfactants, catalysts, release agents, sprayable concentrates and its polyurethane prepolymers business, are now part of the new Polyurethane and Performance Chemical Division. Contact: Air Products and Chemicals Inc, 7201 Hamilton Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18195, USA. Tel: + l-215-481 -6724.
DIARY AmeriHaas/Dead Sea Bromine fire retardant agreement Through an arrangement with the Dead Sea Bromine Group and Dead Sea Periclase, AmeriHaas will offer commercial quantities of several grades of magnesium hydroxide (FR-20), which allows production of nonflame-retarded low-smoke, halogen, thermoplastics without high filler loadings.
INCHEBA 94 The 26th International Chemical Fair, INCHEBA 94, will be held in the Park of Culture and Leisure in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 20-24 June 1994. This is the oldest chemical fair in Central Europe. Contact: Incheba Co Ltd, 852 51 Bratislava, Viedenska Cesta 7, Czechoslovakia. Tel: +42-801-111. Fax: +42-00427-847-982.
Available in several coated versions and an uncoated version, FR-20 also provides improved flowability and colour maintenance by keeping its crystal aspect ratios within a narrowly defined range.
Europlast 94
Contact: AmeriHaas, Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19105, USA. Tel: + l-800-356-3402. Fax: + l-215-592-2285.
Contact: Promosalons, The Colonnades, 82 Bishops Bridge Road, London, W2 6BB, UK. Tel: +44-71-221-3660.
O1994 Elsevier Science Ltd
The Europlast 94 exhibition will be held at the Paris-Nord Exhibition Centre, France, 3-7 October 1994.
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