31.01.2014
- Electric Avenues - Vehicles with an electric drive train are considered a real option for future mobility. For long-distance driving, many carmakers are reconsidering fuel cells...
More Plastics, Less CO2 - Plastics are playing a pivotal role in the development of "green" vehicles. This is evident, for example, in a lightweight front-end carrier...
31.01.2014
- Leaders In Lightweight - Fiber-reinforced plastics are conquering increasingly more markets in future industrial sectors. Very few international construction material markets are...
31.01.2014
- Texas-based Kraton Performance Polymers, a producer of engineering and styrenic bloc copolymers (SBC), has announced plans to merge with Taiwan's LCY to create what the U.S...
31.01.2014
- In the first month of 2014, the European Commission appeared to be feverishly working to tie up loose ends of packages it had been wrapping for some time. When the packages were...
31.01.2014
- Bayer CropScience has signed two new agreements extending its existing R&D partnership with U.S. plant sciences company Cellectis to introduce targeted modifications to selected...
30.01.2014
- The Port of Antwerp set a new freight record in 2013 and handled a total freight volume of 190.8 million tons over the year. The traffic volume in 2013 exceeds that of the record...
30.01.2014
- New Ways to Lighten Up - Saving weight in the automotive sector is still a major topic in resource conservation. Established glass-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic materials such as...
30.01.2014
- Sustaining Our Big Cities - More and more people across the globe are living in cities - a big challenge for the preservation of limited fossil fuels. High on the agenda is...
30.01.2014
- Wrapping Up Efficiency - Plastics are indispensable for ecological and forward-looking strategies. They are the materials of choice, because they are lightweight and robust, their...
