SABIC Will Expand Ultem Capacity
SABIC is committing to meeting demand in the fast-growing Ultem polyetherimide (PEI) market and is expected to make a decision “very quickly” on a major capacity increase. Those [..]
View ArticleSABIC Strikes Gold With PC Glazing
SABIC stuck to its guns and is slowly starting to see substantial results from years-long efforts to advance polycarbonate glazing in cars. The company announced today that the [..]
View ArticleSABIC Seeks Patent For Conformal Cooling Via Additive Manufacturing
SABIC is seeking to patent the concept of creating conformal cooling channels in mold inserts with additive manufacturing processes such as laser sintering. A U.S. patent application titled [..]
View ArticleLightweighting Shines In Europe
Impact on climate change will be the biggest fallout from Donald Trump’s efforts to unwind strict federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would have required vehicles to [..]
View ArticleDell Uses 1 Million Pounds of Recycled Carbon Fiber This Year
Global computer manufacturer Dell Technologies says it will use approximately 1 million pounds of recycled carbon fiber this year, more than double the volume from the previous two [..]
View ArticleFinally–A Major Capacity Boost For Ultem
Demand for Ultem polyetherimide began to spike above supply in 2014, allowing significant price increases while SABIC made incremental increases in capacity. Now a big hike in capacity [..]
View ArticleThe 10 Top Trends at NPE2018: No. 10 Is 3D Printing
The NPE is famously a big equipment show. But it will be materials’ producers that will be making much of the news about 3D printing in Orlando, May [..]
View ArticleNPE No. 3: Composites, Foaming, Hybrid Structures Get Traction
This is the eighth installment of a ten-part series on the most significant trends at NPE2018, the Americas’ biggest plastics show, which will be held in Orlando, Florida [..]
View ArticleMicro Molded Smart Phone Part Replaces Epoxy
A Swiss tool builder and injection molder best known for its work on watch movements has developed the first successful micro molded infrared optical sensor lens. The part, [..]
View ArticleSABIC Will Spin Off Ultem, Noryl and LNP
News comes from Saudi Arabia today that two iconic engineering plastics originally developed by GE will be spun off from SABIC and merged into a new specialty materials [..]
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