Asahi Kasei: Koshiro Kudo new President
Koshiro Kudo is Asahi Kasei’s new President & Representative Director. Koshiro Kudo graduated from Keio University in Tokyo in March 1982 and started working for Asahi Kasei the following month. After holding various positions, Kudo became head of the Roica business unit in May 2008. In 2017 he became President of the Fibers & Textiles […]
Mocom: New member of the SKZ network
Mocom has joined the network of the SKZ Kunststoff-Zentrum, a German consulting and service center for the plastics industry. The aim of the network is to promote research and education in the field of plastics technology. Among other things, the network specifically supports medium-sized companies in the plastics industry and actively promotes young talents. Part […]
USP: New range of TPEs based on renewable resources
United Soft Plastics has announced the development of a TPE series which meet the eco-conscious needs of brand owners and consumers. The TPEs – currently under different stages of commercial development – are produced from renewable, post-consumer, post-industrial, and bio-based sources.
Marfran: Alberto Arrighini is new General Manager
Alberto Arrighini has joined the team of Italian TPE compounder Marfran SRL as general managing director. A material engineer graduate, he has worked for a major player in rubber, silicone and plastics industry for almost ten years, first as Product R & D Director and then as Global Account Director. Prior to that he made significant scientific […]
Kraiburg TPE: Strategic alliance for industry and OEM applications in the field of thermally conductive materials
With “Join our Journey” as its motto, Kraiburg TPE is calling on interested customers and partners to form development alliances. The focus is on thermally conductive TPEs. The aim is to develop solutions and components for the automotive and industry markets. The company said it is expanding its solutions portfolio and seeking to form development-oriented […]
Hexpol TPE: Expanding the use of maritime waste recyclate
Hexpol TPE has added to their TPE portfolio new materials containing recycled content. The Dryflex Circular MWR TPEs contain recyclate coming from post-use maritime ropes. For the MWR raw materials, the company is working with Plastix A/S, a Danish plastic recycling company specialising in sorting and recycling plastic fibre waste from the maritime industry. They […]
Marfran: Increasing TPE capacity by 20 %
Italian compounder Marfran announced that it will increase its manufacturing capacity for TPE compounds approximately by 20 % through different investments at its Corte Franca plant in north of Italy: thanks to this increased productive capacity the company will notably enable more flexibility and opportunity to increase products’ families as for the growing demand in the […]
VDI: Guiscard Glück is new member of the Strategy Circle for Plastics Technology
The VDI Association of German Engineers has appointed Dr. Guiscard Glück, Vice-President – R & D Engineering Plastics Europe, BASF SE, as the 48th member of the Strategy Circle for Plastics Technology. The honor was bestowed during the Strategy Circle’s spring symposium on 13 May 2022 in the Eifel region, Germany.
Celanese: Acquisition of majority of DuPont’s Mobility & Materials business
On 18 February 2022, Celanese Corporation announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a majority of the Mobility & Materials (M&M) business of DuPont for a purchase price of USD 11.0 billion in cash. Celanese said it will acquire a broad portfolio of engineered thermoplastics and elastomers, industry-renowned brands and intellectual property, global production assets, and […]
Asahi Kasei: Carbon footprint data for synthetic rubber and elastomers
Asahi Kasei has developed a system (“System1”) to calculate the carbon footprint of products (CFP2) with CFP data provision to customers scheduled to begin in June 2022. CFP visualization is achieved utilizing the DEEP3 (Data Exploration and Exchange Pipeline) group-wide management infra-structure as a part of the System, which also enables examination of ways to […]