Injection-moulded soft skin for automotive interiors

A highlight at the Kraton stand at Chinaplas 2018 was an automotive dashboard that demonstrated the latest update on the company’s IMSS technology. IMSS means Injection Molded Softskin and is based on recently launched high-flow, lightweight, low VOC styrenic block copolymers. The technology enables injection moulding of large, thin-walled soft skin parts such as instrument panel […]

Mitsui to launch Milastomer production in the USA

Mitsui Chemicals has announced plans to set up a new production facility for Milastomer thermoplastic olefin elastomer at the Ohio plant of its US subsidiary Advanced Composites, Inc. There will be one production line with a capacity of 6,000 t/y. Construction start is scheduled for January 2019, completion in June, operations will then commence in October […]