Sunday, August 23, 2015

Addivant advances. 15113

1.Former polymer additives business of Chemtura prepares for growth under new owner.


Demands on polymers are higher than ever before ,but the additives used in them are 35-40 years old.


Additives is using its expertise to develop additives that help polymers work better on modern film


packaging lines, which can run at up to 1,000 meters per minute. Another effort is to provide


additives that protect the integrity of polymers over decades of use, particularly in applications


such as underground electrical cables.       From :  CEN   JULY 15,2013


 2. Our strengths : Technical expertise that adds value .
                             
                              Customized, cost-effective dust-free solutions.


        polymerization selector guide .


       Elastomer compounding selector guide.               From :  Addivant  advertisement . 2013


3. Import & export between China-Us.   july 2015


  HS 381210  Prepared rubber accelerators   Imports : $379,965 . Export:$379,048


  HS 381220 Compound plasticizers :  Export :$ 441,631


   HS 381230 Antioxidizing ,Stabilization :  Import :$ 2,536,555     From : Zepol

Monday, August 3, 2015

The heat is on isocyanates in paint. 150112

1. polyurethanes make up half of the $19.6 billion global high-performance coating business.


Demand for high-performance coating grows by 5%per year. The $115 billion coating market grows


at less than half that rate.


2.PPG has developed a paint system that eliminate the need to put  a new car body through a primer-


curing oven. Thanks to resins that can be applied wet-on-wet, a car's three top paint layers-primer,


color coat, and clear topcoat-can be applied in succession and oven-cured.


3. Paint maker Axalta (DuPont) like PPG ,it has designed paint package, call a " three-wet System."


4. Oven cure temperatures will have to come down from about 140 C to about 80 C.


5.Bayer, they use what calls Blulogiq technology. It hardeners remain inactive until they are exposed


to temperatures about  75C .

Saturday, August 1, 2015

The shrinking case for fluorochemicals . 150111

1. Long-chain alkyl compounds are out and short-chain replacements are in, even as their safety


remains in question.   2. ELECTRONICS. Loss of fluorinated compounds narrow option for


chipmakers.       From : CEN JULY 13 ,2015 .  P.27-29.


3. New ways to be repellent  .  Regulators and environmentalists are forcing changes in water-


repellent treatments for clothes.  Dupont uses telomerization to create a key fluorinated alcohol.


2-perfluorohexyl ethanol.  cas  647-42-7    From : CEN December 3 ,2012 . P. 20-23


 4. Clothing the well-dressed fracker.    Retailers, manufacturers envision a gold rush in duds for


workers in booming oil and gas fields.    From : WSJ    May 16,  2013



Monday, July 20, 2015

Taking chips to the next level. 150110

New materials keep semiconductor industry on path predicted by Moore's law.


1. Lithography at the EDGE of light.   Uncertainty around new exposure tools based on


EXTREME ULYRAVIOLET technology forces suppliers to pursue multiple research themes.


2. Chip polishing shines bright.   Suppliers of CHEMICAL MECHANICAL PLANARIZATION


materials say they are still playing a role in the evolution of chip making.


3.Fat opportunity in thin films.    Semiconductor industry seeks NEW PRECURSORS to deposit


atom-thick critical materials.   Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor are getting ready to commercialize


chips with 10-nm features.


 From  : CEN  JULY 6 , 2015.  P. 31-37


By : Alexander H. Tullo & Michael McCoy, C&EN New York City;


       Jean-Francois Tremblay , C &EN  Hong Kong

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

A reckoning for phthalates. 150109

 As the plastics additives attract RENEWED SCRUTINY, industry looks for replacements.


The global plasticizer market was about 8 million metric tons  last year, according to IHS chemical,


a market research firm. Phthalates make up about 70% of that volume, IHS says.


Phthalates are also controversial. Concerns -justified or not -have been bubbling up for more than


a decade over their potential to disrupt hormones and cause reproductive and developmental effects.


As a result, the plasticizer industry is in a state of flux, scrambling to adapt to ever-changing demand


from regulators and the marketplace.


Eastman 168 enjoyed 25% growth in 2013 and 16% growth last year, Cullen says ,DEHT makes up


some 12 % of the global market, says IHS chemical's Malveda.


From : CEN JUNE 22, 2015   P.10-18

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Packing innovation . 150108

 Dow chemical spends heavily to become the go-to POLYETHYLENE PACKAGING partner.


 Novel package DOW's application lab in Horgen is full of  packaging machines , including one


that can create a film with up to seven layers.


 ADDING TO IP Dow has an exclusive license for PacXpert soft-bottle systems.


PE is a huge business for Dow, The firm's performance plastics division, which includes PE,


generated close to 40 %of its &58.2 billion in 2014 sales.


  From : CEN APRIL 27, 2015

Plastics' big show. 150107

 The enormous NPE 2015 plastics show broke records and ground.


" For food manufacturers , I think it is going to be a way for them to differentiate."


Milacron's booth was one of the stars.  Milacron was showing off its product,the Klear Can,


injection-molding four of them every eight seconds.


 The can is made out of polypropylene that is the packaging resin that can withstand the 120 C


needed to sterilize food. Thus far ,LyondellBasell industries is Milacron's chosen resin supplier.




 From :CEN april 13, 2015