Keyword: Auto industry

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Polymers for Fuel Cells and Fuel-Cell Systems

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...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Making Cars 'Greener' with Plastics

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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...

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Bayer's Plastics Chief Sees Room to Raise Prices

10.05.2013 - Bayer suggested there was room to lift prices at its high-tech plastics and chemicals business this year to counter soaring raw material costs that squeezed first quarter margins...

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Lanxess Central Eastern Europe Sees Sales Increase by 40%

28.03.2013 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has not one but two reasons to celebrate. First, Lanxess Central Eastern Europe based in the Slovakian capital Bratislava has now been in...

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Lanxess Sees Earnings Slump as Tire Market Weakens

21.03.2013 - Lanxess, the world's largest synthetic-rubber maker, has warned of a sharp drop in earnings in the first quarter, joining the list of auto suppliers to take a hit from anaemic...

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Key Maker of Auto Resin May Be Out until Winter

18.04.2012 - As auto companies and their suppliers met in suburban Detroit to discuss options amid a shortage of a key resin that threatens global auto production, owners of the German chemical...