Rotor blades are exposed to severe environmental conditions. Rain, hail, sand, salty sea water and dirt all gather on the surfaces and lead, especially on blade-leading edges, to soiling and roughening of paint and coating systems.
The engineering team at Emerald Polymer Additives and Nitriles, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has commissioned its new pilot plant to expand the group’s range of Nychem™ specialty nitrile and butadiene emulsion products.
Representing a new chapter in the company’s history in the Delaware Valley, The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), Midland, MI, inaugurated a new Northeast Technology Center (NTC) in Collegeville, PA.
Specialty chemicals company Clariant provided an update on its strategy to reach its 2015 mid-term targets at the company’s annual Capital Markets Day on June 28.
Argex Titanium Inc. has established a fully comprehensive research and development (R&D) center at its facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (Valleyfield), Quebec, the planned site of its first industrial-sized titanium dioxide (TiO2) plant.
Solar Impulse – an ultra-lightweight, solar-powered plane capable of flying day and night – is set to take flight across America with the help of diverse material innovations and technologies from Bayer MaterialScience.
