Basellto close Dutch PP Plant.(COMPANY NEWS)

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At Munich, Germany-based MAN Nutzfahrzeuge —the 13-plant truck and bus manufacturing division of industrial giant MAN—two successful pilot implementations have given lean manufacturing techniques the green light for a group-wide rollout right across MAN. Closely modeled on the well-known Toyota Production System (TPS), the development of the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Produktionssystem—christened, ......

Basell Polyolefins is now producing polypropylene-based resin grades that have withstood freezer temperatures of down to minus 40[degrees] F. Previously, food packaging polypropylene grades could only withstand refrigerated temperatures without cracking or breaking on impact. "These resins can be used to produce a variety of customer packaging applications for frozen ......

For years, syndiotactic polypropylene was just a molecular oddity, an unusual three-dimensional crystalline form of the homopolymer, which held a tantalizing promise of inexpensive, high-performance resins. Syndiotactic PP has properties of impact resistance, flexibility and clarity akin to costlier "engineering" resins and PP copolymers, and can--at least in theory--be made ......

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I mentioned in my post called, How to Interview Potential Employers , that I recently interviewed several managers who love their jobs for an article I am writing. I conversed with six very interesting managers about their jobs. As is usual when faced with article word limits, I could not ......

Plastinum Polymer Technologies Corp. is moving to California where its first E-waste recycling plant will be located. Five more recycling plants are planned.

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