Welcome to E-News Update from Plastics & Rubber Asia

February 2011

LEAD FEATURE

Unravelling the rubber recycling tread

COMPANY NEWS

US companies doing better

Clariant to take over Süd-Chemie

KPPC ships heavy aromatics to Asia

Borouge awards contract for XLPE unit

Sabic ships first acetone load to India

MATERIALS NEWS

Fly ash to hit the roof

PET bottle comes on board

High heat resistant PEEK label

All-plastic wheelchair is wheeled out

TPU for high heat applications

Funding to develop carbon fibres

Pilot plant for carbon dioxide-based PUs

MACHINERY NEWS

German machinery sales pick up

Kreyenborg clinches Korean deal

Brückner buys PackSys Global

Icma extruder for lab line

EXHIBITION NEWS

MPlas in a right setting

RUBBER JOURNAL ASIA

Comar to settle into industrial site

More tyre bladders in South America

Competitive rubber material

Thailand on new rubber planting drive

New silicones for medical devices

INJECTION MOULDING ASIA

Sumitomo expands machine range

Hot gas welding integrated in injection moulding process

Mould maker expands portfolio with new company

New hybrid model ramps up vertical moulding

Icma extruder for lab line

ithin the framework of a collaboration started in 2004, Italian extrusion machine supplier Icma San Giorgio has installed at the laboratory of Milan Polytechnic a complete compounding line equipped with an MCM HT 25 co-rotating twin-screw extruder

The line is installed at the Polymer Engineering laboratory at the "Giulio Natta" Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering.

The extruder belongs to the smaller size of Icma's high torque MCM family and it has been designed to process a wide range of polymer materials, especially in the field of preparation of micro and nano-composites loaded with short fibres.