主题：2007年德国K展全面介绍

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- As a commitment to Innovation and Environmental responsibility, Merquinsa announced first to market, elastomers and adhesives thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) product lines made from Renewable Sources: Merquinsa's Pearlthane® & Pearlbond® ECO which are made from 40% to 95% (by weight) renewable resources.

These new patent pending product lines based on a breakthrough proprietary technology are the first TPU ranges made from renewable natural sources, instead of petroleum with performance equal, or in some cases, even better than traditional petroleum-based TPU products.

Merquinsa's ECO ranges enhance the performance of a diverse portfolio of end -use products that range from consumer electronics to footwear, adhesives, sport & leisure, industrial and automotive applications. These new grades will be commercialized globally in the coming months and a full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is ongoing with a certified cabinet to provide full Environmental Data.

Global Climate change is an important issue and Merquinsa recognizes the importance of directly addressing this issue, even though we do not have all the answers yet.

Merquinsa will continue to develop and invest in the most effective TPU technologies and operating procedures to monitor the environmental impact of its business.

Merquinsa was also one of the first companies in Europe to be ISO14001 certified back in 1999.

About Merquinsa

Merquinsa is a leading thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) specialty producer, providing innovative products for injection moulding, extrusion, calendering, melt coating, compounding and adhesives applications.

Merquinsa's headquarters are in Barcelona, Spain with regional centres in Asia and North America.

Source: Merquinsa

On BASF's pre K press conference 2007,in Frankenthal, near Ludwigshafen, Germany, the company presents numerous innovations from all plastic segments.

Dr. John Feldmann, Member of the Board of Directors, responsible for BASF's plastics as well as oil and gas business, explains the company's consequent orientation on the basis of well-defined customer interaction models. In the plastics segment, BASF intends to focus on specialties and products with a high potential for differentiation in the market. The target is to increase the sales share of these products by 2010 from roughly 25 to 40%.

Jacques Delmoitiez, head of BASF's Operating Division Polyurethanes, gives details on the division's three-pillar strategy. It consists of innovative products and marketing concepts, a site concept that includes more than 30 customer-orientated system houses all over the world and the global production site concept with world scale plants in all regions. With PU basic products, PU systems, special PU elastomers (TPU) and finished components like Cellasto® BASF belongs to the worldwide market leaders. Polyurethanes are the most versatile plastics and can be found everywhere in daily life, from sports shoes and refrigerators to cable isolation, top mounts and coastal protection systems.

Products for automobile production

New Ultradur® High Speed applications, car seat prototype and online coatable plastic fender

On K 2007 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the world's largest plastics trade fair, BASF will present a new polyamide specialty for online coatable car body parts. The material is called Ultramid® TOP and it offers extremely high heat stability which is indispensable for body parts made of plastic. Thus a part made of Ultramid TOP can be mounted very early onto the raw car frame like e.g. a classical metallic fender and then move through the entire manufacturing process down to coating without additional effort.

There is also news about the very easy-flowing PBT Ultradur® High Speed. Backed by high market demand BASF offers now 15 different grades of this material. Brand new are the thermally conductive and the flame retardant grades. A new, low-warpage version of Ultradur High Speed-Type has been explicitly optimized for making automotive instrument panels. It is used in the dolphin system, a new method for producing soft and leather-like instrument panels in a very cost-efficient way. The companies Engel, Georg Kauffmann, P-Group and BASF have jointly developed the dolphin technique. One of the first prototype parts near to series application will be produced live at the K show in October.

Two innovative Ultrason® E grades (PESU: polyethersulfone) are available in BASF's high performance plastics range. Both are developed for automotive headlights. Ultrason E 2010 MR black HM offers improved temperature behavior since it is colored by a new pigment system. The first PESU-Blend Ultrason E 2010 MR HP has been developed, optimizing toughness and processability considerably without harming temperature resistance.

Water injection technology (WIT) is particularly useful for injection molding of complex hollow parts. For this technology BASF has now three specific products in its range of engineering plastics: A hydrolysis-resistant PA 66,Ultramid® A3HG6 WIT, for cooling water pipes, Ultramid B3G10 SI (PA 6) and the PBT Ultradur® B 4040 G10 WIT, both for structural parts like roof rails. First applications have been realized together with the company Decoma.

Design and Packaging

Children's toys with Hexamoll® DINCH, bottles with shrink sleeves, foamed food tray made of Ecovio® L Foam.

Biodegradable plastics and plastics based on renewable raw materials are a constant part of BASF's research and development activities. After the market introduction of Ecovio® LBX 8145 beginning of 2006, first lab samples of the new Ecovio L Foam will be available in October 2007. The material is designed for foamed food trays and fast-food boxes. Like its predecessor the new Ecovio L Foam consists of Ecoflex®, BASF's biodegradable polyester, and the renewable raw material polylactic acid (PLA).

A new Styrolux® grade (SBC: Styrol-Butandien-Copolymer) has been developed for shrink sleeves in beverage bottle packaging. Films made of the new Styrolux HS 70 have a significantly higher final shrinkage than all other SBC products in the market. This allows form-fitting sheathing even for bottles with complex geometries and thus makes possible attractive and individual product design.

Together with BASF and the furniture company Plank the internationally acclaimed industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has designed and produced an innovative chair within the record time of only one year. The chair combines high design standards with intelligent production via injection molding: The cantilever chair "MYTO" is entirely made of Ultradur® High Speed, the very easy-flowing PBT (polybutylene terephtalete) from BASF and will be unveiled on K fair's opening day at BASF's stand by the designer himself.

There is also news from designfabrik™ (design factory), BASF's plastics service platform for designer which is located in Ludwigshafen since May 2006. The designfabrik's technical support and advice in connection with the choice of material, processing technique and color has now been extended to all BASF plastics and includes Styrenics as well as Engineering Plastics and Polyurethanes.

The foam Basotect® has also aroused designers' interest. The company Walter Knoll from German Herrenberg has developed the first fire-proof sofa by using a core of BASF's speciality foam. The flame-resistant melamine resin foam will be part of the whole upholstered design furniture series KITE 560 which is particularly well-suited for furbishing public spaces where fire protection regulations are very strict.

News about BASF's Integrative Simulation and a new PA marketing concept

Designer chair MYTO made of Ultradur® High Speed

BASF has further developed its powerful CAE instrument Integrative Simulation, so that it can fully consider not only metal and reinforced plastic but also structural foams which are used to glue different materials (CAE: computer-aided engineering). This allows the simulation of so called structural plastic inserts which are implemented into hollow body parts that have to fulfill high requirements in case of a crash. With this enlarged Integrative Simulation technique highly complex metal-plastic-structural foam-parts can be computed, the construction of which would otherwise be very difficult.

One step further goes the application of this method for stone impact on under-the-hood plastic parts. Special polyamide grades like Ultramid® A3HG7 Q17 have undergone broad aging tests in hot oil and the results have been implemented into the crash simulation method. So now the behavior of motor oil or gear oil sumps that have aged in hot oil for thousands of hours and are then hit by a stone can be simulated precisely on the computer und thus improved. This opens many interesting applications for engineering plastics.

Before investigations of part behavior with these elaborate calculation methods from BASF take place, the shape of the part should be optimized, otherwise the potential of the powerful engineering plastics cannot be fully exploited. BASF's application specialists have supplemented the instrument of Integrative Simulation now by the so called Mathematical Part Optimization (MPO).

The logical marketing consequence of Integrative Simulation: Under the trade name Ultramid® CR BASF now offers its customers for the first time six polyamide grades that, with the aid of its Integrative Simulation, are exactly matched to the demands imposed on parts in case of a crash. Apart from materials with optimized composition and the material data available for the simulation the package also contains particularly narrow specifications and intensive quality controls. The package is valid for three ; PA 6 ; and three ;PA 66 ;grades.

Meantime BASF owns the three polyamide trade marks Ultramid®, Miramid® and Capron®. Now the product ranges are restructured, so that Ultramid remains the core brand for technically sophisticated applications and Miramid includes small-volume grades like special colors which can be fast and flexibly supplied. The Capron range is reduced and contains high volume PA grades for standard applications that do not involve narrow specifications.

Polyurethane for top mounts, dike breakwaters, mattresses and car interiors

Coastal protection with Elastocoast® (PUR)

By using novel cross-linking ;TPUs;, trade name Elastollan®, BASF's subsidiary Elastogran offers an innovative alternative for rubber in rubber-metal composites as used in damping systems of machines. The metal component in these systems can, at the same time, be replaced by Ultramid® CR. This way complex composites can be produced faster, more cost effectively and with considerably smaller weight.

The polyurethane (PU) system Elastocoast® has been developed for coastal protection. With the elastomeric material one can secure dike breakwaters better than with conventional rigid systems, since the layers of stone are glued together elastically. First commercial projects have been realized at the German North Sea coast and demonstrate the high value of the system.

A polyol made from castor oil can be found now in Elastogran's product portfolio, so that customers are able to manufacture flexible foams that consist of almost 25% of renewable material. The polyol is called Lupranol® Balance 50 and it was developed by using innovative reactive catalysts.

Soft-touch feelings in the automotive interior can be generated in different ways by using polyurethanes (PU). In addition to the well-known cast skin technique, Elastogran is now offering in Europe the spray skin method which is easier in terms of tools. The aromatic PU specialty belongs to the Elastoskin® family. A new Elastollan® grade achieves a similar target: The aliphatic hard phase-modified;TPU;, in brief HPM- ;TPU ;, leads to soft touch by simple two-component injection molding. BMW is already using the material in series production.

Systems and visions: Of car seats, wood coating, extrusion, medical technology and plasticizers

The newly founded car seat competence team focuses BASF Group's whole know-how about car seat materials. In this context it was shown on a prototype that a car seat can almost completely be made of BASF products. Application experts are offering the complete knowledge now to car manufacturers and Tier 1-suppliers in a concise and easily accessible manner.

The coating system PermaSkin® which uses films made of the styrenic plastic specialty Luran® S (ASA) for the coating of wooden doors, e.g., has been transformed into an independent business model. Door manufacturers receive the coating machine on leasinig-basis as well as the film and the adhesive directly from BASF. They can thus produce doors or similar products cost-effectively without wet coating and with no initial investment.

A fourth product is now added to the three standard injection molding grades in BASF's ABS commodity product range. Terluran® SP-6 has been developed explicitly for extrusion and it is produced under the highly cost-efficient conditions in BASF's word scale ABS plant in Antwerp, Belgium.

Plastics for medical technology have to fulfill very high safety standards. BASF has significantly extended its plastics portfolio for this growing market. A new Terlux® (MABS) with improved flow properties (Terlux 2812 HD) and the first engineering plastics - two copolymer polyacetals ;(POM);, Ultraform® PRO by name - are now available for medical technology applications and include a comprehensive package of special test and certificate services.

Among BASF's plasticizers for PVC there are two especially remarkable ones. Palatinol® 10-P is used for roof sheeting and cables. Hexamoll® DINCH is an alternative to phthalates specifically developed for the use in sensitive applications like children's toys. It is the most thoroughly investigated of all plasticizers worldwide.

Source: BASF

Chemtura Corporation will exhibit their extensive line of new and existing flame retardants, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, polymerization additives and intermediates for vinyl, polyolefins and other plastics at K-Show, the 17th International Trade Fair for Plastics & Rubber. K 2007 will take place October 24-31 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Chemtura Corporation will exhibit their extensive line of new and existing flame retardants, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, polymerization additives and intermediates for vinyl, polyolefins and other plastics at K-Show, Hall 6, stand number C07

Created in July 2005 by the merger of Crompton Corporation and Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, Chemtura today is a $3.7 billion Corporation and the world's largest manufacturer of plastics additives with sales of $1.5 billion, more than the combined sales of the next two largest manufacturers. At K2007 Chemtura will demonstrate how their broad spectrum of products adds value to a wide range of chemistries while helping to solve specific customer problems.

Chemtura products being introduced at K2007 include: MARK® OBS® Organic-Based Stabilizers, now more cost-effective than calcium zinc alternatives for both rigid and flexible PVC applications; Firemaster® 600 and 602 flame retardants that are 10% more efficient for protecting polyurethane foams; Polybond® coupling agents such as Polybond® 1103 for processes and applications requiring very low melt viscosity; and Naugard® 300-E inhibitor that improves efficiency and control of styrene monomer production processes Chemtura is also developing improved coupling agent and lubricant products for wood/plastic composites.

Along with ongoing product development, Chemtura announced that it is meeting customers' needs by increasing production of epoxy plasticizers by 15% at their Taft, Louisiana plant in response to a competitor's closing of a large production facility.

Earlier this year, Chemtura announced the implementation of a market-facing reorganization that focuses on four end-use markets: Building & Construction, Electrical & Electronics, Consumer, and High-Performance applications. Robert Wood, Chemtura's chairman and chief executive officer, stated, "As we evolve from a functional to an industry-focused commercial organization, we will present a more coordinated face to customers and have better insight into their current and future needs."

Group President Anne P. Noonan leads Polymer Additives, which includes the former Plastic Additives and Flame Retardant business units. Ms. Noonan said, "Chemtura's industry-based business model will enable us to better position ourselves to serve our customers, add value to their products, and anticipate their future requirements."

Chemtura will present their new structure and extended plastics portfolio in Hall 6, stand number C07.

Source: Chemtura Corporation

Villejust, -- Eliokem, a specialty chemical company, announces that it will be exhibiting together with its German distributor, Weber & Schaer GmbH & Co.*, at K 2007, the leading international trade show for the plastics and rubber industry, in Düsseldorf, from 24 to 31 October 2007.

The booth will feature Eliokem's market-focused innovations and the advances in Chemigum and Sunigum grades.

Chemigum and Sunigum have been used for decades as the worldwide reference elastomers for the manufacturing of gaskets and seals, friction materials, hoses, wires and cables, synthetic leather and auto interior skins.

"The show is a major cornerstone for Eliokem as it provides the company a platform for strengthening customer relationship and showcasing the latest performances of the company's plastics portfolio" stated Mr Rick Sandford, Eliokem's Commercial Director.

* Hall 6- Booth: 6 B27

Joint booth Eliokem/Weber & Schaer GmbH & Co.

Eliokem, a leading Specialty Chemical company

Eliokem is a specialty chemical group with headquarters in Villejust (near Paris) France. The group employs more than 460 people around the world and owns 3 production facilities located at Le Havre (France), Akron (Ohio, USA) and Ningbo (China), as well as 6 representative offices in Europe, Asia and The Americas, and a network of 75 distributors and agents strategically located around the world. The company has leading positions in a broad range of niche applications with the following trademarks and associated product lines:

Pliolite , Plioway , Pliotec and Hydro Pliolite®: resins used in decorative paints.Pliotone : Electrographic toners.

Pliocord and Chemigum : latex used in the treatment of reinforcing fabrics, joints and gloves.Chemigum and Sunigum : elastomeric modifiers for plastics.

Wingstay : Wingstay : non-staining antioxidants used in natural latex articles, carpet backing and for the protection of ABS and elastomers

Source: Eliokem

Tamaqua, PA -- Research into the benefits and limitations of rotomolding parts with aluminum pigments has resulted in new expertise for Silberline to share with the plastics community. There has been a desire to use aluminum pigments in rotomolding to provide a silver or metallic color effect to the finished part surface. However, there are several challenges in obtaining the proper effect while maintaining suitable molded parts with good physical properties. The main issue has been proper aluminum pigment dispersion to obtain the desired effect.

Visit the Silberline Booth at K 2007, Hall 5, Stand D 17, to discuss the findings of this research and to obtain a copy of the white paper offered.

Silberline is a global manufacturer of effect pigments serving the automotive, inks, plastics and general industrial coatings markets. Silberline products are the solution to creating positive product distinction through bold and beautiful special effects. A worldwide network of independent agents and distributors enables the company to effectively sell and service our products on a global basis. Silberline has customer service centers on four continents. Each customer service center is staffed by professionals prepared to share the visual value and ardent sales power that quality effect pigments can bring to your products.

Source: Silberline

BATON ROUGE, LA. -- Albemarle Corporation , the world leader in flame retardants, has developed a new generation of its MARTINAL® finely precipitated aluminum trihydrate (ATH) flame retardants to meet customer demand for improved processability in compounding operations. The newly developed product will be called MARTINAL LEO flame retardant and will benefit wire and cable compounders and other plastics manufacturers through its improved thermal stability, better electrical properties, lower compound viscosity and higher bulk density. Combined with improved flow after conveying, the new, optimized MARTINAL LEO ATH yields better performance than previous ATH flame retardants.

"As a leader in providing value-added solutions to our clients, we continually seek ways to enhance the technical performance of our products. We are pleased to continue this tradition of excellence by introducing the next generation optimization of MARTINAL® fine precipitated ATH, which will help increase the throughput of wire and cable manufacturing operations worldwide," said Wolfgang Hardtke, Albemarle's global business manager for wire and cable.

For more information on new MARTINAL LEO flame retardant, visit Albemarle at K 2007, the International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, in Dusseldorf, Germany, October 24-31. Technical, business management and sales representatives from the company will be on hand throughout the show to help customers discover improvements and efficiencies in plastics compounding, manufacturing, and application using new and unique flame retardants, antioxidants, curing agents and polymer catalysts from Albemarle. Albemarle will exhibit in hall 6, stand D61.

Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals for petroleum and petrochemical processing; transportation and industrial products; consumer electronics; pharmaceuticals; agricultural products; and construction and packaging materials. The Company operates in three business segments, Polymer Additives, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals, and serves customers in approximately 100 countries.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Source: Albemarle Corporation

Ciba is presenting Ciba® TINUVIN® PUR 866, its new light stabilizer for thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) resins used in sports & leisure applications, at UTECH North America 2007, the International Polyurethane Industry Exhibition held September 24-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida, and at the K Show in Düsseldorf, October 24-31, 2007 (stand A27 in hall 06). Unlike many other light stabilizers which are known to affect the initial color of substrates, TINUVIN® PUR 866 does not affect the initial color of TPU after compounding and injection molding. By offering outstanding initial color, it is ideally suited for transparent and light colored TPU.

Ciba® TINUVIN® PUR 866 light stabilizer for TPU resins used in sports & leisure applications such as these sport shoes provides outstanding initial color especially for transparent applications

In addition, transparent and light colored TPU resins are especially prone to discoloration when exposed to sunlight. By reducing discoloration, TINUVIN® PUR 866 allows TPU products to maintain their visual appeal, and thus protect the product's brand. Typical uses for TPU in sports & leisure applications include high performance sport shoes; transparent TPU films used in ski boots and outdoor clothing; in-line skates; logos and badges; and transparent air cushions.

Comparison of TPU resin pellets shows that TINUVIN® PUR 866 does not affect initial color of TPU after compounding and injection molding

"The unique properties of TPU allow the finished material, such as shoe soles, to be made rigid or flexible, highly elastic or with good shock absorbing properties, and with varying degrees of thermal stability and abrasion resistance. Our new TINUVIN® PUR 866 light stabilizer has been shown to significantly perform better than the current state-of-the-art light stabilizer systems, allowing for even more demanding applications," says Dr. Kerstin Schrinner, Global Marketing Head Polyurethane at Ciba's Plastic Additives Segment.

Ciba is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one-stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life - adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to be a leader in its chosen markets. In 2006, the Company's continued operations generated sales of CHF 6.4 billion and invested CHF 270 million in R&D.

Source: Ciba