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PolyOne to Buy Clariant Masterbatch Business (Breaking News)
http://cloud.excelplas.com/index.php/s/uNSptM93vly7tJ3
Clariant Sells Masterbatches business for 1.6 Billion (Breaking News)
https://www.medicalplasticsnews.com/news/clariant-sells-masterbatches-business-for-1-6-billion/
Solvay’s New HMW HALS Capacity Now Online, Satisfies Demand for Light Stabilizers
https://www.solvay.com/en/press-release/solvays-new-hmw-hals-capacity-now-online-satisfies-demand-light-stabilizers
ExcelPlas Labs Offer Specific Filler Identification in Masterbatches by XRD
-distinguish between anatase and rutile titanium dioxide pigments
-identify specific mineral types of clay or silica fillers
-identify specific mineral flame retardants such as ATH and MDH
-determine crystalline silica content of inorganic fillers for plastics
-specific inorganic pigment identification and quantification
https://www.excelplas.com
ExcelPlas Labs Offer Full Additive Analysis on Polyolefins : Comprehensive and Fast Turnaround
-identify and quantify process stabilisers, antioxidants and HALS
-detect and quantify UV stabilisers
-deformulate and reverse engineering of masterbatch and polymer additive packages
https://www.excelplas.com/
Schulman Patents Foamable Polyolefin Composition
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20190382545.pdf
Processing and Structure of BOPP film with Nanoparticle-based Additives
https://dc.engconfintl.org/composites_all_2019/26/
BASF Debottlenecking of Antioxidants Plant in Italy
https://www.plasteurope.com/news/BASF_t244325/
Masterbatches for Preparing Composite Materials with Enhanced Conductivity Properties, Process and Composite Materials Produced
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190378634A1/en
Exxon Mobil Patents Masterbatch Compositions Having Titanium Dioxide and Propylene-Ethylene Copolymer
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190367688A1/en
Spanish Additives Group Plans Growth in Europe
https://www.plasteurope.com/news/UNNOX_t244278/
Ampacet Diverts Plastic Films from Landfill with New Blend of Functional Additives
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/Ampacet-diverts-plastic-films-from-landfill-with-new-blend-of-functional-additives.html
First Graphene Announces Steel Blue Signs Supply Agreement
http://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/CompanyReports/First-Graphene/First-Graphene-Announces-Steel-Blue-Signs-Supply-Agreement
Mealworms Can Safely Biodegrade Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/mealworms-toxic-plastic-07974.html
Solvay’s New HMW HALS Capacity Now Online, Satisfies Demand For Light Stabilizers
https://www.chemicalonline.com/doc/solvay-s-new-hmw-hals-capacity-now-online-satisfies-demand-for-light-stabilizers-0001
Tolsa Grows Flame Retardant Line
https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/tolsa-grows-flame-retardant-line
Webinar: How to Improve Performance and Production Efficiency Through UV Additive Selection
https://www.solvay.com/en/event/webinar-breaking-mold-how-improve-performance-and-production-efficiency-through-uv-additive
Creep Reduction of HDPE Filled with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
Incorporation of 10 wt.% of CNT into HDPE sheet resulted in a decrease of creep and residual strains for more than 3 and 5 times, respectively.
Carbon nanotubes also provide in situ strain sensing capability during long-term deformation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1431/1/012005/pdf
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