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Lanxess increases prices for PA and PBT compounds
Reinforced Plastics Volume 61, Number 3 May/June 2017
BUSINESS
Business Lanxess increases prices for PA and PBT compounds Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has increased the prices for its Durethan and Pocan compounds in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA region). This is due to the increasing pressure on the raw material cost base, the company says.
The price increase amounts to 0.10 s/kg for Durethan A (polyamide 6.6), 0.20 s/kg for Durethan B (polyamide 6) and 0.10 s/kg for Pocan (Polybutylene terephthalate, blends). Fields of application for products made of Durethan and Pocan are the
automotive industry plus the electrical/ electronics industry, construction, medicine, and the sports and leisure sectors.
Lanxess; www.lanxess.com
JEC announces innovation award winners JEC Group has announced names of the 13 winners of the JEC Innovation Awards. The awards reward the best composite breakthroughs based on their technical interest, market potential, partnerships, financial and environmental impact and originality. Just as last year, a high number of submissions came from the automotive industry, following current market trends. Process improvement was also one of the most represented themes, highlighting the importance of cycle time reduction. The award winners are: Aeronautics – IHI Corporation (Japan), composite fan system for aero-engines
Automotive, structural – Forward Engineering GmbH (Germany), T-RTM Automotive, exterior – LG Hausys (South Korea), one-piece roof rack Construction – ACCIONA Construccio´n SA (Spain), composite panels, an alternative to steel and concrete for high-speed railway tunnel construction Process – IRT M2P (France), fast RTM Manufacturing – Voith Composites GmbH (Germany), Voith roving applicator Sustainability – Faurecia (France), NAFILite microcellular foamed material Marine – VABO Composites (Netherlands), ‘Pplug-and-play’ composite ship door
3D printing – +LAB - Politecnico di Milano University (Italy), smart manufacturing of continuous-fibre composites Software – e-Xstream (Luxembourg), Digimat AM ¨ r PolymerSports – Leibniz-Institut fu forschung Dresden (Germany), recurve bow riser Raw materials – Covestro Deutschland AG (Germany), Desmocom1 – a novel solution for composites Better living – Brødrene AA (Norway), Vision of the Fjords, Ship of the Year 2016 in Norway www.jeccomposites.com
Foam core awarded certificate of material excellence CoreLite Composites, a US manufacturer of balsa and foam core materials, says that its CoreLite Board product has been awarded the distinguished Certificate of Material Excellence by Material ConneXion, the
world’s largest Materials Library, with seven locations worldwide. CoreLite Board is featured in the Polymers section. ‘We are very proud to be included in such a prestigious materials library and pleased
that our innovative material and industry leading quality have been recognized,’ said Elsa Axelsdottir, innovation manager at CoreLite. CoreLite; www.corelitecomposites.com
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BUSINESS
Business Lanxess increases prices for PA and PBT compounds Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has increased the prices for its Durethan and Pocan compounds in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA region). This is due to the increasing pressure on the raw material cost base, the company says.
The price increase amounts to 0.10 s/kg for Durethan A (polyamide 6.6), 0.20 s/kg for Durethan B (polyamide 6) and 0.10 s/kg for Pocan (Polybutylene terephthalate, blends). Fields of application for products made of Durethan and Pocan are the
automotive industry plus the electrical/ electronics industry, construction, medicine, and the sports and leisure sectors.
Lanxess; www.lanxess.com
JEC announces innovation award winners JEC Group has announced names of the 13 winners of the JEC Innovation Awards. The awards reward the best composite breakthroughs based on their technical interest, market potential, partnerships, financial and environmental impact and originality. Just as last year, a high number of submissions came from the automotive industry, following current market trends. Process improvement was also one of the most represented themes, highlighting the importance of cycle time reduction. The award winners are: Aeronautics – IHI Corporation (Japan), composite fan system for aero-engines
Automotive, structural – Forward Engineering GmbH (Germany), T-RTM Automotive, exterior – LG Hausys (South Korea), one-piece roof rack Construction – ACCIONA Construccio´n SA (Spain), composite panels, an alternative to steel and concrete for high-speed railway tunnel construction Process – IRT M2P (France), fast RTM Manufacturing – Voith Composites GmbH (Germany), Voith roving applicator Sustainability – Faurecia (France), NAFILite microcellular foamed material Marine – VABO Composites (Netherlands), ‘Pplug-and-play’ composite ship door
3D printing – +LAB - Politecnico di Milano University (Italy), smart manufacturing of continuous-fibre composites Software – e-Xstream (Luxembourg), Digimat AM ¨ r PolymerSports – Leibniz-Institut fu forschung Dresden (Germany), recurve bow riser Raw materials – Covestro Deutschland AG (Germany), Desmocom1 – a novel solution for composites Better living – Brødrene AA (Norway), Vision of the Fjords, Ship of the Year 2016 in Norway www.jeccomposites.com
Foam core awarded certificate of material excellence CoreLite Composites, a US manufacturer of balsa and foam core materials, says that its CoreLite Board product has been awarded the distinguished Certificate of Material Excellence by Material ConneXion, the
world’s largest Materials Library, with seven locations worldwide. CoreLite Board is featured in the Polymers section. ‘We are very proud to be included in such a prestigious materials library and pleased
that our innovative material and industry leading quality have been recognized,’ said Elsa Axelsdottir, innovation manager at CoreLite. CoreLite; www.corelitecomposites.com
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