Dow additive keeps PC from scratching
MIDLAND, MICH. (Feb. 7, 2012) -- Dow Chemical Co. plans to introduce an anti-scratch additive for compounding with polycarbonate to compete with ultraviolet-light-cured PC hard coatings.
Duncan tapping into China's booming yo-yo market
HONG KONG (Jan. 24, 2012) -- The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China.
Toy manufacturer Fu Hong growing its own brand
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Top U.S. regulator says toys are safer but focus must shift to better design
HONG KONG (Jan. 17, 2012) -- Toys are much safer in the U.S. since a wave of recalls in 2007 and 2008, but manufacturers should be focusing on better toy design to continue to reduce hazards, the top
U.S. toy safety regulator told a recent Hong Kong conference.
China toy factories face troubles
HONG KONG (Jan. 17, 2012) — Hong Kong’s plastic toy factories face tough conditions, squeezed between weak markets overseas and rapidly rising wages and costs in their mainland China factories.
Xinghui acquiring SKN polystyrene plant
SHANTOU, CHINA (Jan. 10, 2012) -- A Chinese manufacturer of model cars is acquiring the majority share of a local polystyrene plant owned by South Korea’s SK Networks, a move that the company said
will help achieve upstream vertical integration.
Foodservice disposables to top $53 billion globally
CLEVELAND (Jan. 10, 2012) – Urbanization and away-from-home food spending will drive global growth in the foodservice disposables market, according to a new market study.
Cardia wins Chinese government contract for waste bags
NANJING, CHINA (Dec. 20, 2011) -- Cardia Bioplastics has won a contract for a six-month trial to supply household kitchen waste bags made from its Biohybrid material to the city of Nanjing, China. The
initial order of 10 million bags will be delivered by the Nanjing government to 60,000 household.
Swiss researchers develop composite trumpet
RAPPERSWIL, SWITZERLAND (Dec. 13, 2011) -- The Institut für Werkstofftechnik und Kunststoffverarbeitung (IWK) materials and plastics processing institute at the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
(HSR) in Rapperswil, Switzerland, has developed a carbon-reinforced plastic trumpet for DaCarbo AG by using lost core technology in resin transfer molding.
GripWorks brings molding work from China to St. Louis
ARNOLD, MO. (Dec. 6, 2011) -- GripWorks recently added the entire line of Hunt-Wilde brand injection molded hand grips to its portfolio and will be manufacturing them at its St. Louis production
facilities. It will be the first time in many years that the company will be injection molding in the U.S.
Table manufacturer Lifetime Products wins patent fight in China
CLEARFIELD, UTAH (Nov. 29, 2011) -- American plastic table manufacturer Lifetime Products Inc. said it has successfully taken its long-running patent infringement fight to China, winning its first
court case there against a local manufacturer.
Hong Kong molder Vigor eyes technology, looks beyond plastics
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Conductive plastics stop toys from interfering
IBI, SPAIN (Nov. 18, 2011) -- A proliferation in the number and variety of electronic and electrical toys on the market has brought with it the growing problem of electromagnetic interference. Now,
however, researchers at Spain’s Toy Research Institute (AIJU) have come up with a solution to this problem, developing conductive plastics to reduce any magnetic interference.
DSM opens China Science & Technology Center
SHANGHAI (Oct. 28, 2011) -- Royal DSM N.V. has launched a Science & Technology Center in Shanghai, which it said will be the company’s main innovation base in China and, among other things,
strengthen its engineering plastics R&D in Asia Pacific, especially for automotive, electrical and electronics sectors.
China's WPC makers look to domestic market and new applications
HUANGSHI, CHINA (Oct. 25, 2011) -- Facing declines in their traditional export markets in North America and Europe, Asia’s wood-plastic composite makers are increasingly switching their focus to
their regional markets, where local demand is growing more than 10 percent a year.
Bayer plans to make solid PC sheet in Guangzhou
LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY (Oct. 22, 2011) -- Bayer Material Science AG plans to build a solid sheet polycarbonate manufacturing facility in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, in part to target what it
said is growth in diffusion lighting applications.
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