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Tag Archives: Sabic Innovative Plastics
Outlander Features Fenders Molded In 2-Cavity Tool
SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business continues to tune up grades targeting automotive exterior body panel applications. In an interesting new development, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) selected Noryl GTX 989 [..]
SABIC Readies First-Class Plastics Center in Riyadh
When SABIC bought GE Plastics for $11.6 billion in 2007, it wasn’t clear what the Kingdom’s aspirations in plastics were. It’s becoming clearer that Innovative Plastics fits into [..]
Volvo Uses ‘Upcycled’ Post-Consumer Plastic
Volvo Trucks is using plastic compound recycled from water bottles for the brackets of the side air deflection system for all seven models in its 2012 VN platform. [..]
New SABIC Executive Discusses Bold Moves At NPE2012
It’s becoming increasingly clear that SABIC’s acquisition of the GE Plastics business five years ago for $11.6 billion was a positive development for the American plastics industry. At [..]
FDA Backs Polycarbonate Producers on BPA Safety
The science is behind us. The major producers of polycarbonate have firmly taken that stand in defense of bisphenol A (BPA), which has been under attack for about [..]
Plastics boost effectiveness of new LED light
Increasing use of energy-saving solid state light emitting diode (LED) lamps and fixtures will be a major story involved plastics in the next two to three years. Royal [..]
What’s the Future for Polycarbonate?
Polycarbonate’s link to bisphenol A (BPA) has left it badly bruised in the public eye, but it’s still a darling of design engineers around the world. Growth rates [..]
Ford Takes Grand Prize for MuCell Application
At a gala Society of Plastics Engineers’ banquet Wednesday evening, Ford engineers collected the grand award for the most innovative new use of plastics in cars. They won [..]
New SABIC Blend Injects Life Into Auto Body Panels
There’s still a future for large thermoplastic automotive body panels, despite some well-publicized fits and starts such as the Saturn program where gaps between panels became a significant [..]
Poylcarbonate Glazing Continues to Avance, Slowly But Surely
The Peugeot-Citroën Group is now using plastic glazing made from Teijin’s Panlite polycarbonate resin in the rear quarter windows (“quarter lite”) of the Citroen DS5, a five-door hatchback [..]




