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Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is showcasing its high-performance polymers used in the design and manufacturing of high-performance E/E components at
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Rapid News Communications Group, the publisher of British Plastics and Rubber, European Plastic Product Manufacturer, Medical Plastics News and Middle Eastern Plastics, and the organiser of the Interplas and Mediplas UK events, has launched a new directory platform which will serve the global plastic processing sector.
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Huntsman Advanced Materials will showcase its latest materials at JEC Paris 2013, demonstrating how its track record in innovation continues to enable new design freedom through optimising the mechanical properties of composites and supporting faster, more cost effective processes which are making a significant contribution to increased growth in the high performance composites market.
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Arnitel^© Eco thermoplastic copolyester from DSM has been used successfully in soft touch surfaces by a world leading manufacturer of consumer electronics. Applied to the surface using a 2K molding technique, enabling cost efficient mass production, Arnitel Eco helps to create an almost skin-like feeling to the surfaces of electronic devices, like notebooks and tablets.
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At the Plastimagen 2013, which will take place from March 12-15, 2013, in Mexico City, Arburg will focus on the topic of production efficiency with two exhibits. A representative of its high-performance Allrounder Hidrive machine series will be presented on exhibition stand 730 in Hall D.
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Visitors attending the European Coatings SHOW 2013 will be introduced to a broad range of high performance, metallic and special effect pigments and dispersions from Sun Chemical Performance Pigments that can meet sustainability needs, maintain high color strength, and give added durability in a variety of harsh conditions in the automotive, industrial, waterborne and architectural coatings mar
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From January 29^th to February 2^nd, WITTMANN BATTENFELD will be demonstrating its competence to interested trade visitors at the Interplastica in Moscow in hall 8.1, booth A40, with two exhibits from its successfully launched PowerSeries.
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Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel's Technion Institute this week unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire.
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Registration is now open for the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC® 2013, it was announced today by SPE. Prospective attendees can register online at www.antec.ws.
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Self-moving gels can give synthetic materials the ability to “act alive” and mimic primitive biological communication, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found. 
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