Automotive

In order to improve service and customer satisfaction in the Indian market, machinery maker Nissei Plastic Industrial has opened a branch office in Chennai, Southern India. Its operation started in January. The Indian government has been pushing stricter environmental and emission regulations. As more electric and lighter vehicles are made…

At the 18th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2019, April 18 – 25), the Suzhou based Sonderhoff (Suzhou) Sealing Systems presents their products and services to the automotive industry in China. The German based Sonderhoff group, part of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, is one of the world’s…

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is participating in FOAM2FOAM, the objective of which is to obtain raw materials from polyurethane waste that until now ended up in landfills were mechanically recycled to obtain low value-added products. Polyurethane is a material that has many forms, including flexible and rigid, as well…

PPG just announced that it has completed its acquisition of automotive coatings manufacturer Hemmelrath. Financial terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Klingenberg, Germany, Hemmelrath is a manufacturer of coatings for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company supplies automotive plants worldwide, and more than 7 million vehicles are coated with its products each year.…

Due to increasing global demand for high-performance polymers, Germany’s Evonik says it is expanding its production of transparent polyamides of the Trogamid CX brand at the Marl Chemical Park (Germany). Production expansion is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2020. The project will double the specialty chemicals company’s capacity for…

Research led by Professor Ton Peijs of WMG at the University of Warwick and Professor Cees Bastiaansen at Queen Mary University of London, has devised a processing technique, which can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminium but at a fraction of the weight, and which could…

The technology division of Williams Formula 1 team, UK-based Williams Advanced Engineering, has published a white paper to showcase its proprietary, patent-pending innovations in carbon composites and the benefits they offer to the automotive industry. PRA takes a look at the groundbreaking technologies: 223 and Racetrak. The automotive industry, where…