To meet growing demand for EVA film, Bridgestone will invest a total of ¥8.2 billion to increase the production capacity of its Iwata Plant in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture and its Seki Plant in Seki City, Gifu Prefecture.

The pultruded structure houses photovoltaic panels utilized to make electricity, which will offset the electrical demand of the restaurant while shading the roof from additional heat loads.

The new generation of stationary material drying systems is presented at the K with the example of a SOMOS® D200 dry air dryer (air flow 200m3/h) and a module hopper system with drying hoppers from 50 to 300l. The technical innovations in design, process control and control engineering that are utilised here combine great operating comfort with a further improvement in energy efficiency.

Commissioned by the PPI and The Alliance for PE Pipe, the study, conducted by Jana Laboratories, examines the various areas of a potable water system including chlorination, durability, oxidative aggressiveness, temperature and pressure/stress.

Trexel will display a broad variety of applications across many industries, all molded using Trexel's MuCell® microcellular foam molding process at K2010.

Designed to determine the flow properties of polymers and plastics, the new Aflow extrusion plastometer offers defined, adjustable pre-compacting of the test material.

At K trade fair, Arburg will introduce Selogica control system with completely new operator guidance features at stand #A13 in Hall 13. The second debut awaiting visitors is a high-performance hybrid technology in the form of the new, large Allrounder 920 H, which has a newly designed servo-electric toggle clamping unit with a clamping force of 5,000kN.

Makrolon® WB1239 from Bayer MaterialScience is a product tailored to the requirements of the water bottle industry which is designed for the manufacture of large-volume bottles that can be cleaned and refilled more than 50 times.

The X-Sorbs™ Pom-Pom Ropes and Sorbent Booms are made of polypropylene, an attractant for the oil, and act as adsorbent rather than absorbent products. Each X-Sorbs™ Pom-Pom Rope is 50-feet long and specially designed to adsorb 15 to 20 times its own weight in crude oil.

The increased growth rates for plastic giants such as DuPont and Alcoa combined with higher costs for crude oil bode well for the bioplastics industry as science-based initiatives and green technologie.

Thin Film PV technology has seen a major development leap from only being associated with the little strip of PV cells that power calculators to sophisticated BIPV or solar charges for mobile devices.

Saflex is the most trusted name in polyvinyl butyral interlayer technology for laminated glazing, delivering outstanding performance and durability backed by reliable and knowledgeable service.

Axion's recycled Axpoly and Axfoil sheet grades save around 15,000 tonnes per annum of CO₂ emissions when compared to the same volume of virgin polystyrene.

Gates Corporation now constructs its entire molded notch V-belt line with EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer). EPDM is a high-performance rubber compound known for ozone, heat and weather resistance.

An advanced model of the Maguire® MGF gravimetric feeder provides more than double the throughput of the original system but has the same compact size and offers the same substantial price advantage over competing gravimetric units.

Newave Packaging, Inc., has commenced marketing its new environmentally friendly ewrap™ food wrap film for meat, poultry, produce and frozen foods. Management hopes to position the company as a leading supplier of 'green' packaging products to the food packaging industry.

The German multinational group and European leader in the household appliances market, with sales of about €8.8 billion, recently honoured its most exemplary industrial partners and suppliers for their innovation, product quality, service and flexibility.

China XD Plastics Company Limited has delivered to Hafei Dongyang ("HD"), one of the leading automotive parts suppliers in Northeast China, three tons of specialized plastic compounds to be used in the battery casing during a pilot production for electric vehicles.

Insulgard, the company which provides architectural security products, announced a new window system that can protect emergency and security workers from the battering of hurricane- and tornado-strength winds, ballistics impacts and other threats.

The new ASB-150DPW has the same footprint as the ASB-150DP model, but features a double-row configuration, doubling the cavitation to a maximum of 36 compared to 18 on the single-row machine.