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Without any doubt, when looking at the results of the recent Click 'N Vote titled 'What will be the strongest business driver in 2011 for your company?' the answer is clear (Gathered from SpecialChem4Polymers Community - 96 Responses). More than 50% of voters pointed out 'Global economy recovery' and 'innovation' as the strongest drivers ...
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April 2011 |
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The first Click'N'Vote question of the New Year reveals that more than 49% of SpecialChem members identify lowering manufacturing costs as the most important factor in developing
new/improved coatings. Reducing costs, as always, helps attract new business and
retains existing customers. Typical methods to reduce manufacturing costs include make bigger batch sizes, substitute lower cost raw materials, reduce the number of raw materials, maintain tight control of inventory, eliminate in-house QC of raw materials by relying on supplier QC, that serve multiple end uses.
Recently, in order to reduce manufacturing costs, formulators have begun evaluating multifunctional additives. Use of multifunctional additives will reduce the number of raw
materials and, in some cases, can also result in improved product performance. At SpecialChem, we take pride in our ability to help members reduce costs by providing an extensive raw material database and additional resources to help locate the right multifunctional additive for specific products. The second most important factor in
developing new/improved products, chosen by 16.1% of SpecialChem voters, is ...
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March 2011 |
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Replacing metal by plastics is not a new topic at all, and we all have heard about the most interesting advantages of plastics over metals: the increased design freedom of plastics allows complex shapes to be made with the same cost levels as for simple shapes, which is far from being the case with metal (except if you deal with aluminum injection molding of course…). Part weights are always significantly lighter than with metal, even if to keep the
same level of part stiffness you always need to increase the plastic part thicknesses, and generously add ribs. Integrating functions is always easier with ...
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March 2011 |
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Our Client is a mid-size manufacturer of polymers and resins primarily used as a commodity in building and construction willing o enter the Adhesives market. Some specialty grades have shown suitability to capture opportunities in higher end applications such as adhesives. In only 12 month, we filled its business development pipelines with over 1,000 tons of yearly volumes ...
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September 2010 |
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DiscoveryCast, provider of a SaaS (Software as a Service) web-based ideation platform, announces a partnership with SpecialChem S.A., the Interactive Marketing and Open Innovation firm managing the world’s largest on-line community dedicated to chemicals and materials. The announcement comes after SpecialChem successfully conducted the first ever online global ideation event that focused on the “Future of Bio-based Chemicals and Materials” ...
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September 2010 |
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