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Is it summer at long last? We desperately need a break…The last 2 months were really exhausting – the first pre- K 2010 press conferences took place, and there were numerous conferences and fairs to visit.We had to keep an eye on price increases and company take-over’s as well. The informa-tion that BASF had bought the specialty chemicals producer, Cognis, for an official price of 3.1 billion Euros, arrived after our editorial deadline, ….and then, finally, the football World Cup.

Apropos the World Cup – Sepp Herberger must have been delighted with “Jabulani“, as, according to FIFA and the manufacturer, the ball has never been as round as it is this year. On the other hand – Germany first became world champions in 1954 with a – in comparison to today – pretty rustic ball that looked more like an egg. By the way, whilst writing this editorial, Italy just got knocked out. The upshot being that the result of the WC 2010 is still open. Back

to the Jabulani: It consists of just eight thermo-sealed, spherical shaped pieces of polyurethane.In former days, the ball con-sisted of 18 rectangles made from 1.5 mm thick calves leather, which despite its fat content, soon soaked up the water when it rained. You can just imagine the pain after hit-ting a header…

Take a breather? No way…The projects, introduced during the pre- K press conferences, sound promising. Polyurethane is still a material with enormous potential be it in the field of renewable energy or in the classic crude oil and natural gas industries. In September we will go into more detail on “Polyurethanes and Renewable Energy”. In conjunction with this: Please make a note in your diary for the “Husum WindEn-ergie conference”, that takes place from 21st to 25th Septem-ber 2010. If you fancy, you can travel to Valencia before that to the “25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition”, which will be held

between 6th and 10th September 2010.

And if this is not enough – don’t put your suitcases away yet – the 4th quarter offers more travel destinations: In October the “Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF)“ might entice? The first weekend (9th/10th October 2010) of the event features a kind of german “Octoberfest” including a “Jodeling Competi-tion” (www.texrenfest.com). To enable your participation, we recommend completing a com-pany travel requisition to attend “UTECH North America”… you might need an alibi. Well!, finally at the end of October, we meet at the longest business desk in the world to discuss “Vi-sions in Polymers“ – in Dussel-dorf at the K 2010.

If you send it, we can print it!Two pieces of advice in this respect:• For our “BONDexpo” and

“Composites Europe” pre-reports please send your information by the 1st week in August.

• As usual for the “K”, we will set up a polyurethane preview on our website, starting mid September. But we can only publish the information you send us…

10 years of FAPUNo, we won’t be having a big party or a firework display to celebrate FAPU’s 10th anniver-sary. Yes, we allowed ourselves a glass of Prosecco – and sincerely thanked the advertisers and subscribers for 10 years loyalty. More about this in our next issue.

For now, we wish you all a relax-ing holiday time!

Birgit Harreither, Thomas Schwachulla

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POLYURETHANE NEWS

Agricultural Sector to Harvest Benefit of TPU Hoses

A thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) from Huntsman

has been used by PAPUREX W. Büchner GmbH, a world lead-ing hose producer, to develop AgrarPur® – a revolutionary new pneumatic tubing system for the agricultural sector.

Based on IROGRAN® – a propri-etary TPU grade from Hunts-

man Polyurethanes – AgrarPur® hoses are designed to carry com-pressed air to power specialist harvesting and pruning equip-ment. Employed widely across farming (prevailing wine or fruit growing), forestry and profes-sional horticulture in America, the Middle East, Europe, and Australia, these machines in-clude vibrating rakes – used to

knock fruit and nuts like olives and pistachios off trees – and pneumatic powered shears, seca-teurs, and chain saws for cutting back and trimming branches.

Thanks to IROGRAN®, Agrar-Pur® hoses are up to 15% stron-ger under pressure than conven-tional polyurethane hoses. They can tolerate high-pressure levels of more than 40 bars and have a standard working limit of 16 bars, meaning they are far less likely to burst and have a much longer lifecycle. IROGRAN® also makes it possible for PAPUREX to make hoses that are up to 10% longer, enabling farmers to harvest much larger areas at any one time.

AgrarPur® was developed after PAPUREX decided to extend its existing agricultural hosing range. With 25 years experience in the farming sector and a track record of producing 26 million meters of polyurethane tub-ing every year, the team knew exactly what they needed from a TPU.

Andreas Geyer, Financial and Commercial Manager at PAPUREX, explains more: “When we began enhancing our agricultural hose portfolio, the opportunity arose to work with Huntsman Polyurethanes. In the past we had heard excellent things about the breadth of the company’s TPU offering so knew they would be able to identify the very best possible solution for us to use. When the team introduced us to IROGRAN®, we knew instinctively that we had chosen the right supplier.”

IROGRAN® is a range of robust, plasticizer-free TPUs. It provides AgrarPur® with all the attributes commonly associated with poly-

urethane e.g.; high elongation; abrasion and UV resistance; intrinsic flexibility; plus it also offers added benefits including excellent physical recovery and good temperature performance, even under extremely hot condi-tions – a must in crop fields in warm climates.

Continuing Andreas Geyer said: “As well as supplying IROGRAN® – a superior TPU in terms of product quality, performance, and end-user benefits – the overall experi-ence of working with Huntsman was exceptional. The company responded rapidly to our needs, quickly understood our aims and worked closely with us to engineer a solution that would meet our technical specifica-tion.”

Franz Michel, TPU Account Manager at Huntsman Polyure-thanes, said: “Typically used in mechanically challenging applications, IROGRAN® has been widely adopted across the hoses and tubes market as a core raw material that can be easily extruded. We believe that AgrarPur® sets a new standard for hoses used in pneumatic agricultural applications and are delighted that IROGRAN® has played such an important role in its development.”

PAPUREX customers – includ-ing some of the world’s leading manufacturers of pneumatic harvesting and pruning equip-ment – can purchase AgrarPur® hoses with immediate effect. The system is manufactured to the highest possible standards and in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 certified Quality Management system.

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Positive trend at Grammer continues in the 1st quarter of 2010

From waste product to raw material based on CO2

GRAMMER AG continued to see positive development

in the first quarter of 2010. As a result of the economic recov-ery and new production starts, revenue increased by 18 percent as compared to the first quar-ter of last year, to EUR 203.0 (2009: 171.7). Whereas in Q1 2009 Group EBIT was negative at EUR -8.6 million, the stable revenue base and positive effects from the restructuring program helped GRAMMER to a positive Group EBIT of EUR 3.5 million in the first quarter of 2010. This equates to an increase of EUR 12.1 million in operating profit.

Accelerating automotive market demand and new produc-tion starts led to a 30 percent increase in revenue for the

Automotive division to EUR 136.3 million. Thus, the positive trend that began as early as the third quarter of 2009 continued. The Company’s EBIT in the Automotive division grew by EUR 9.7 million over the prior-year quarter to EUR 3.7 million (2009: -6.0).

The Seating Systems division, which was hit later by the ef-fects of the economic crisis and the related fall-off in demand than the Automotive division, saw some improvement in the first quarter of 2010. A positive order situation in Truck busi-ness, especially in Brazil, and stable Offroad demand led to a recovery in the situation of the segment. Revenue in Seating Systems was up from EUR 69.5

million last year to EUR 71.8 million in 2010. Here as well, the restructuring measures have taken hold, with the division generating a profit of EUR 0.9 million from January to March (2009: +1.2) – the first positive result since one year ago.

Group revenue was higher year-over-year in all regions. In Europe, revenue rose from EUR 129.8 million to EUR 133.8 mil-lion, which is primarily attribut-able to new production starts in the Automotive division. In the Overseas region, revenue was up by EUR 12.8 million. Moreover, business was extremely good in the region Far East/Rest of World, where increases of more than 100 percent were gener-ated. This improvement to EUR

28.5 million is mainly based on the favorable revenue develop-ment seen by both divisions in China.

Investment volume in the first quarter of 2010 was down only slightly on the prior-year level, at EUR 8.4 million. In the Automotive division, nearly 55 percent, or EUR 4.6 million, went to the building of produc-tion capacities in Schmölln and Mexico. Investment in the Seating Systems division from January to March totaled EUR 3.8 million for set-up of produc-tion of the new generation of truck seats. After a difficult year in 2009, GRAMMER Group is expecting moderate revenue growth in the single digits for the current fiscal year.

Researchers from Bayer Mate-rialScience and Bayer Tech-

nology Services are working to-gether with RWE Power AG and academic partner RWTH Aachen University on the sustainable use of carbon dioxide (CO2). At the heart of what has been called the “Dream Production” project, sits the construction and commissioning of a pilot plant at Chempark Leverkusen. This is to be the location for the kilogram-scale production of polyether polycarbonate polyols (PPPs) that will be processed into polyurethanes and will involve the chemical bonding of CO2, which will be an integral raw material in this sustainable process. The key technology for this is catalysis.

While catalysis is currently used in the manufacture of more

than 85 percent of all chemical products, the low energy density of carbon dioxide has hindered the application of this technol-ogy in any attempt to put CO2 to practical use.

But in recent laboratory tests, ‘dream reactions’ have been achieved; i.e. reactions created in a laboratory but the indus-trial application of which have yet to be proven; resulting in the process being described as a ‘dream’, for the time being.

For the first time, these promis-ing results will be transferred from the laboratory to a larger scale in the ‘Dream Production’ project. During the next three years the German Federal Min-istry of Education and Research (BMBF) will invest a total of more than EUR 4.5 million in

the initative, the project super-vision of which is the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Polyether polycarbonate polyols (PPP) produced using catalysis are extremely attractive materi-als. As well as the incorporating CO2 in the process, there are also further interesting pos-sibilities involving there use in polyurethane chemistry. “Using the waste product CO2 to manu-facture versatile materials is an amazing achievement made possible by catalysis – and one which both we and our project partners are very proud of,” said Patrick Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of Bayer MaterialScience AG. “What’s more, as an ultra-efficient organic insulating material, polyurethanes save around 80 times more energy during their service life than is

required for their production. This ensures that PPPs have a doubly positive effect on climate protection.”

As well as being used for build-ing insulation, lightweight polyurethane components also help to reduce weight in the au-tomotive industry, for example, resulting in significant energy savings. However, polyurethanes are also part of everyday life when used as a material for manufacturing high-quality mattresses and upholstered furniture.

“Dream Production” is based on a forerunner project “Dream Reactions”, which was initiated by Bayer Technology Services and also funded by the BMBF. “As part of this project, we dealt with fundamental questions

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focusing on harnessing CO2 by using newly developed catalysts. We have achieved promising results that form the basis for in-dustrial implementation in the Dream Production project,” ex-plaind Dr. Dirk Van Meirvenne, managing director of Bayer Technology Services GmbH.

Using CO2 as a raw material for manufacturing polymers helps cut consumption of convention-al raw materials and therefore fossil fuels. This strategy also

shows future generations how to make sustainable use of natural resources.

The CO2 used for the project will come from RWE Power’s lignite-fired power plant at Niederaußem. This is where the electricity generator operates a CO2 scrubbing system at its coal innovation centre, by which the carbon dioxide is captured from the flue gas. For the Dream Pro-ductions project the CO2 scrub-ber will be equipped with an

additional liquefaction system so that the carbon dioxide can be transported to Leverkusen. The CO2 liquefaction system will be designed and operated with flexibility to meet various CO2 pressures and purities on a scale ranging from kilograms up to tonnes.

“In a broad-based energy mix, coal will continue to play an im-portant role in the future,” said Dr. Johannes Lambertz, Chief Executive Officer of RWE Power

AG. “This is why the Dream Pro-duction project is also important to RWE. Apart from capturing CO2 with an utmost of energy efficiency from the power plant process as a building block for significant carbon dioxide reductions in coal-fired power plants, we are also developing the additional path of CO2 usage in a cross-industry cooperation. This comes under the heading: CO2 – a new resource.“

RAMPF Giessharze develops RAKU-PUR 35-3500 HD foam gaskets

For the very first time, the reaction resin specialist is

offering a foam gasket system with high-pressure processing capability which will go by the name of RAKU-PUR® 35-3500 HD. The new polyurethane system, which is characterized by extremely minimal water absorption, is capable of being processed using reactive high-pressure systems.

The new foam gasket genera-tion from RAMPF Giessharze is ideally formulated for high-pressure processing, whether two or three-dimensional. The delayed reaction of the foam sealant ensures optimum mix-ing in the mixing head. The fast curing properties of the material without the need for

a curing oven following direct application onto the component allow fast further processing. The product characteristics of the gasket speak for themselves: RAKU-PUR® 35-3500 HD offers an impressive specific gravity of 260 g/l, extremely low water absorption, a good appearance and minimal density. The foam also forms a clearly defined skin and offers excellent mechanical

strength. The latter is a require-ment frequently imposed by today’s automotive industry, and is of particular importance where shearing forces occur dur-ing the assembly of functional components.

When applying using the high-pressure method, small dispensing rates of 3 to 5 g/s are possible. The experts at RAMPF

Giessharze tailor the new polyurethane system precisely to individual customer needs. RAKU-PUR® 35-3500 HD is available with a range of differ-ent properties – from liquid to highly thixotropic. It adheres successfully to different surfaces. When working with some plas-tics, adhesion can be achieved by pre-treatment with primers or Plasma Treat.

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Trailblazing cooperation for high pressure RTM

KraussMaffei’s Reaction Pro-cess Machinery division and

Dieffenbacher (DSE) agreed on April 15th, 2010 to cooperate on sales of systems for high-pressure resin injection (high

pressure RTM). The new alliance between the two companies addresses a rapidly expanding market, because of the growing use of CFP parts in the automo-tive industry.

The cooperation was sealed by handshake (l. to r.: Dr. Günter Kuhn, Managing Director and CTO of

the Dieffenbacher Group, Frank Peters, member of the Board of Management of KraussMaffei)

UnrollCutting

Place Inserts

LayingPackaging

CuttingPreform

Stitching PreformingUpstreamProcess

LoadingForm

ResinInjection

RTMProcess

Parts Storage

CleaningLower Tool

CleaningUpper Tool

Part Removal

PlacingInserts

RawMaterialStorage

IMCProcess

Release Agent

Coating

Press Process

MeasuringParts

MillingStamping

OutlineTrimming

VerifyingBondingCleaningPretreating

Surface

Water Jet Cutting

DownstreamProcess

UnrollCutting

Place Inserts

LayingPackaging

CuttingPreform

Stitching PreformingUpstreamProcess

LoadingForm

ResinInjection

RTMProcess

Parts Storage

CleaningLower Tool

CleaningUpper Tool

Part Removal

PlacingInserts

RawMaterialStorage

IMCProcess

Release Agent

Coating

Press Process

MeasuringParts

MillingStamping

OutlineTrimming

VerifyingBondingCleaningPretreating

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Water Jet Cutting

DownstreamProcess

One contact partner for turnkey solutions worldwideThe two major advantages for customers are the ability of the two alliance partners to supply turnkey solutions worldwide and the time and effort saved by dealing with a single contact partner for all the elements of the system. These can be deci-sive advantages in an important market – because high pressure RTM is set to play a key role in producing carbon fiber rein-forced plastic (CFP) parts for the automotive industry. Current market demand for components for electric and hybrid cars con-firms this trend.

Fiber intermediates (woven and non-woven fabric) are challeng-ing to handle; production re-quires vertical presses where the lower mold element allows grav-ity-assisted loading and draping of the fabric in the mold. The mold is then filled with epoxy resin or polyurethane using high-precision mixing heads which are docked directly onto the mold. During curing, cavity

pressure can be as high as 100 bar. An important aspect of the cooperation between KraussMaf-fei and Dieffenbacher will be developing the process further, for example, shortening the reaction (curing) time. This is important because process time is a critical factor in productivity and return on investment. Each of the two partners has outstanding know-how in their special fields:

Dieffenbacher: Hydraulic vertical presses

with precise parallel control

of the ram

KraussMaffei: Resin metering systems and

mixing heads for epoxy and

polyurethane

Dieffenbacher: System supplier for handling

systems, cutting, preforming

and pressing

KraussMaffei: System supplier for post-mold

processing, milling, routing,

cutting and tooling

Here is an overview of the whole process chain which the Krauss-Maffei/Dieffenbacher alliance is able to supply to customers immediately:

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Arkema’s DMSO, a paint-stripping solvent with an excellent toxicological profile

In April 2010, the Arkema’s Thiochemicals business unit,

in partnership with Rhodia and Brenntag, organized a briefing seminar at Arkema’s headquar-ters for its customers looking for a paint-stripping solution.

Produced at Lacq, DMSO, or Dimethyl Sulfoxide, is a cost-effective solvent that is safe to man and the environment, and is not labeled as hazardous according to European directive 67/548/EEC. With its excel-

lent toxicological profile and high solvent power, DMSO is the best alternative to solvents rated hazardous such as DMF (dimethylformamide), NMP (N-methylpyrrolidone) and NEP (N-ethylpyrrolidone), methanol, and methylene chloride. Used in combination with other sol-vents, e.g. Rhodia’s Rhodiasolv® STRIP, DMSO represents an ex-cellent active substance for the development of paint-stripping formulations that are safe to man and the environment.

In April 2008 OECD experts certified that DMSO did not represent a significant hazard for health and the environ-ment. These conclusions are in accordance with the absence of DMSO classification as a hazard-ous material based on European regulations criteria. Meanwhile, DMSO’s REACH registration has been accepted by the authorities, under number 01-2119431362-50-0000. As DMSO is not classified as hazardous, no exposure scenario is required.

DMSO is a highly effective polar aprotic solvent in many applica-tions:• Active substance synthesis• Agrochemical formulations• Paint stripping• Electronics (photoresist strip-

per etc.)• Coatings (polymer formula-

tion and synthesis)• Industrial cleaning• Aromatic extraction

X-Rite Introduces MA94 and MA96 Multi-Angle Spectrophotometers

X-Rite, Incorporated is un-veiling a new family of

multi-angle spectrophotometers and advanced quality control and formulation software that give manufacturers powerful new tools to introduce pro-cesses, improve first-time quality and reduce the time and effort of troubleshooting problems on the factory floor.The MA94 and MA96 spectro-photometers are the next gen-eration and improved versions of X-Rite’s MA68II spectropho-tometer. Data taken with the MA94, MA96 and MA98 spectro-photometers is fully compatible with existing data generated using the MA68II instrument.

With the new MA94/96/98 fam-ily, X-Rite now offers a wider range of solutions so customers can tailor their investments by selecting the instruments that best suit their applications, mea-suring anything from the most basic paints to sophisticated interference pigment coatings. The new spectrophotometers of-fer improvements such as better

data repeatability and a more robust method for measuring flexible or curved surfaces, and customers will be able to utilize the advanced X-ColorQC® software that comes with the instruments to obtain more information from data.

With the addition this year of the MA94 and MA96 instru-ments to our MA98 spectropho-tometer, X-Rite offers a com-plete line of hand-held colour measurement solutions that give manufacturers affordable quality control solutions tailored to the specifics of the material used on the factory floor. The instru-ments are designed to make it easy for quality control person-nel to obtain reliable colour measurements quickly on the factory floor or in the lab.

The MA94, 96, and 98 multi-angle family can help manu-facturers identify and maintain the colour quality of parts that may originate from different production lines, factories or supply sources, saving money

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and time by reducing scrap and rework. Weighing approximately 1 kilogram and covered with a soft over-mold case for two-handed use, all of the instru-ments are designed for frequent and comfortable measurement by the shop floor personnel.

The MA94 ensures reliable colour measurement of flat, flexible and curved test surfaces by using three pressure sensors that quickly indicate to person-nel that they have positioned the instrument correctly for readings. In addition to the pressure sensors, the instrument can show the locations of where parts are to be measured using X-Rite’s proprietary JOBS work-flow routine with both text and visual cues and records data for analysis using the X-ColorQC® software. The MA94 illuminates test surfaces with a tungsten halogen module and takes read-ings from five aspecular angles in less than two seconds.

The more advanced MA96 has all the features of the MA94, but takes measurements from six aspecular angles, one of which is -15 degrees to provide additional information for collecting data on effect paints and coatings.

Introduced last year, the MA98 is a precision 31-point spectro-photometer that is designed especially to measure effect paints for research and develop-ment, process improvements, and product refinements. With 11 sensors and two illuminators, the MA98 can detect character-istics of effect paints that the other instruments miss entirely, Feld said. The MA98 collects

and manipulates data through its X-ColorQC® software and proprietary xDNA algorithms to generate easy-to-understand graphs that show unique charac-teristics of effect paints.

The MA94, 96, and 98 instru-ments all feature:• Using X-Rite’s proprietary

JOBS workflow routine with both text and visual cues the instrument instructs the user where measurements need to be collected and records data for analysis using the bundled X-ColorQC® software.

• Quick measurement time of about 1 second, with calcula-tion and display in a total of 2 seconds.

• Battery-powered operation that records more than 1,400 measurements per full charge, in addition to operation from an AC adapter.

• Data collection via USB 2.0 or wireless data collection via Bluetooth.

• Solid-state pressure sensors and indicator L.E.D.’s that signal when the instrument is applied properly against the test surface to improve mea-surement repeatability.

• Lamp modules can be replaced without affecting the measure-ment performance or results of the instrument.

• Compatibility with previous generations of X-Rite instru-ments, allowing continued use of existing databases.

• A large colour display screen that is backlit for easy viewing under varying light conditions

• Software that instructs the. operator on the proper tech-niques of measurement with both text and visual cues.

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BBG launches two new mold carrier systems

In the past few months, BBG developed two new mold

carrier systems, the hydraulic BFT-U 26x20 and the electrically driven BFT-P V4 16x11. Both systems were delivered in Febru-ary and put into operation by the respective customers.

BFT-U: Large components are its specialtyThe BFT-U has been specifically designed for the encapsulation of large moldings. It is equipped with two 2,600 x 2,000 mm mounting plates that are suited for molds up to the same size. The stroke is 1,900 mm. The customer application is based on molds with a mass of 20,000 kg but the BFT-U has been designed for even heavier mold masses. The maximum closing force is 3,000 kN. Four hydraulic cyl-inders, which form the basis of the design, impart a high degree of stability to the mold carrier system, which reaches a total height of almost 6.5 m.The BFT-U is used by a Thuringia-based customer for the production of large fairings

for passenger cars in a PUR-CSM process (polyurethane-compos-ite spray molding process). The spray-molding technology for polyurethane developed by Hen-necke is based on fibers made of glass or natural materials such as hemp, sisal, and flax for manu-facturing thin-walled, extremely lightweight automotive mold-ings that offer a high degree of bending strength, or compo-nents of high finish quality.

BFT-P: versatile, easy to operate, energy-efficientThe BFT-P V4 16x11, a further development of the tried-and-tested BFT-P, was delivered to Hennecke, too, but this time to their production facility at Sankt Augustin in Rhineland. The mold carrier system, which was set up at the pilot plant of BBG’s partner company, has been designed for a wide range of ap-plications and system demon-strations, involving above all the encapsulation of components with fiber-reinforced polyure-thane. The mold carriers offer ideal ergonomics for any work

on the mold since it is easily ac-cessible from every side. This is due to the particular maneuver-ability of the BFT-P V4. Features include four independently controlled axes, a swiveling tur-ret that can be inclined by up to 30 degrees to the front and rear, and mold mounting plates that can be swiveled independently in infinitely variable steps by a maximum of 40 degrees at the bottom and by up to 90 degrees at the top. The design allows for smooth robot integration at the rear.The BFT-P V4 features two mounting plates sized 1,600 x 1,100 mm, which have been designed for a two-piece mold with a total weight of up to 2.5 tons. Installation heights are infinitely variable, ranging from 400 to 900 mm. The closing force amounts to 400 kN. The full stroke of 1,300 mm can be run in four seconds.

A high degree of productivity is ensured by short movement times thanks to time-optimized processes, and by the ease of use

and the ease of programming based on the teach-in process. Furthermore, the exchange of energy between the various axle drives renders the BFT-P V4 par-ticularly energy-efficient. When equipped with magnetic mounting plates, the mold car-rier system offers particularly short set-up times as any, even non-standardized molds can be changed within less than six minutes. Magnetic quick-clamping fixtures facilitate the efficient production of even small batch sizes or a wide range of components. The molds can of course also be secured with mechanical or hydraulic fixtures, which are offered by BBG, too.

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Polyurethane rigid foam with enhanced fire behavior for metal-faced sandwich panels

First eco board material made from recycling polyol from RAMPF Tooling

RAMPF Tooling has expanded its tooling board product

range for the foundry industry. The new eco board, predomi-nantly produced from recycled material, is available under the name RAKU-TOOL® WB-1450. Not only is RAMPF Tooling of-fering a sustainable material but also a very tough material with an abrasion resistance of 80 to 90 mm³/100R (Taber) which is especially suited for applications in the foundry industry.

With the new eco board mate-rial RAKU-TOOL® WB-1450 RAMPF Tooling has succeeded in taking a further step towards more sustainability. “Custom-ers are using a board material that protects precious resources and fully conforms to the high quality standard set by RAMPF,” commented Heinz Horbanski. The new board exhibits a very dense surface structure and is easy to machine. A good dimensional stability, high abra-sion, and chemical resistance as well as good impact strength complete the key properties for the new material. The main applications for WB-1450 are machined foundry patterns and core boxes. A further plus

point is that the recycling polyol which is used to produce the eco board is supplied by the sister company RAMPF Ecosystems. At RAMPF Ecosystems all ac-cumulated polyurethane waste from within the RAMPF group is recycled and then flows back into the production cycle.

With the development of its Close Contour Casting systems RAMPF Tooling has already taken a step towards sustainabil-

ity in the modeling and tooling market. The Close Contour Casting material CC-6507 was especially developed for the productions of foundry patterns and core boxes and through the close contour shape less waste is generated.

For 30 years RAMPF Tooling has been producing high quality tooling materials for the found-ry industry. Its experience has led to a comprehensive product

range from boards to liquid materials to which the new eco board is the perfect addition.

RAMPF Tooling has introduced a tough board

material for the foundry industry which is pre-

dominantly produced from recycling polyol.

Sandwich panels compris-ing two metal facings and

a polyisocyanurate (PIR) rigid foam core have long been used for the efficient thermal insula-tion of large warehouses, cold stores, and other industrial and administration buildings. Devel-opers at Bayer MaterialScience have now come up with a new, more environmentally compat-ible PIR foam system with sig-

nificantly enhanced fire behav-ior that has clear benefits over established systems, especially when it comes to smoke gas development.

Metal-faced sandwich panels based on this new product class even achieve a B-s1,d0 classifica-tion in the DIN EN 13823 Single Burning Item (SBI) test, with s1 representing the lowest smoke

gas development class and d0 indicating that there are no flaming droplets. In recent years, the SBI test has increasingly become a standard requirement in Europe for the fire and smoke behavior of building compo-nents. For example, the new European standard for sandwich panels – DIN EN 14509 – also uses SBI-based tests for fire clas-sification purposes.

PIR metal-faced sandwich panels can be manufactured on continuous laminators. The PIR reaction mix is first laid down on one metal facing. It foams and immediately bonds with the second facing, which is applied from above. In this way the rigid foam core is bonded to the two facings in a shear-resistant manner. The finished sandwich panels are self-supporting, very

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Continuing cost volatility forces increases from Stepan Europe

Stepan Europe has an-nounced Quarter 3 price in-

creases for all European Stepan-pol® aromatic polyester polyols of €100 – 150 per metric ton.

Roger Stubbs, Vice President European Polymers, for Stepan commented: “The continuing rise in costs of our primary feed-stocks, ortho-xylene [OX]

and di-ethylene glycol [DEG] is forcing us to increase the selling prices of all grades of Stepanpol® aromatic polyester polyols effective 1st July 2010.”

The attached graph shows how the costs have increased by over 30% since the end of last year and by over 70% from a year ago. Although Stepan was

strong and relatively light. A variety of profiling options and colored surface finishing of the facings offer a great deal of scope for designers. This is particularly important when the sandwich panels are used for the façades of administration buildings.

“The B-s1,d0 classification en-ables our customers to under-take construction projects that are subject to stringent require-ments in terms of components’ fire and smoke behavior and where it was previously essential to use inorganic core materi-als based on mineral wool to achieve smoke class s1. The new development creates an additional market segment for polyurethane-based metal-faced sandwich panels,” said Harald Wolf, head of Marketing for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region at BaySystems Insulation.

“It goes without saying that the PIR core is not the only factor enabling this classification to be achieved in the SBI test. The sandwich panel must also have an appropriate joint structure,”

explained Dr. Rolf Roers, who is responsible for metal composites in Bayer MaterialScience’s ap-plications engineering division. “Nevertheless, the latest series of tests has shown that the new PIR class produces much better results and that a B-s1,d0 classification is possible if the chemical composition and panel structures are ideally matched,” added Roers.

The new PIR foam system is based on a polyester with an impressively eco-friendly manu-facturing process. “Our innova-tive process significantly reduces

the amount of by-products that are generated and subsequently have to be disposed of,” contin-ued Roers.

Because the insulating effect of PIR foams is much better than that of mineral wool, the wider range of applications benefits building users and the envi-ronment alike. For example, a layer of PIR ten centimeters thick has a heat transfer coef-ficient of around 0.25 W/m2K, whereas the value for equally thick mineral wool insulation is normally just 0.4 W/m2K. A rough estimate of what this

difference means in terms of energy consumption can be made based on the example of a factory building. “Assuming the building has a floor area of 40 x 20 square meters and is 10 me-ters high, the annual amount of heating oil saved could be roughly 3,000 liters if both the walls and the roof are insulated with PIR metal-faced sandwich panels rather than panels of the same thickness based on mineral wool,” explains Roers. This lower energy consumption also results in an equivalent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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able to achieve price increases in Q2 the continued surge in raw material costs has now overtaken any benefit gained from that initiative, forcing the company to move prices

up again in Q3 by an unprec-edented amount.

Stepan will maintain its com-petitive position in the market as demonstrated by a continuing

investment in manufacturing capacity to expand the plant at Wesseling [Cologne, Germany] to more than double annual European production capacity to 120,000 MT. All of the major

components for the Wesseling plant capacity expansion have been delivered to site, ground works commenced at the start of the year and are progressing well according to plan.”

Muffler-Plastic and Kaufmann give practical demonstration of Varysoft process

The German firm of Muffler-Plastic GmbH, Pfullendorf,

has presented the Varysoft® process in May 2010. Devel-oped by the Swiss firm of Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG, Busslingen, Varysoft® is a pro-cess for the back moulding of decorative cover stocks featuring an additional production stage for extra comfort: A layer of soft foam is injected into the space between the supporting struc-ture and the decorative material. The actual thickness of the layer of soft foam in any particular area of the moulded part is de-termined by the geometry of the mould in accordance with the degree of passenger comfort required.

The sample part produced in the mould used for the demon-stration featured the tight radii and complex surface geom-etry typical of the difficulties

encountered in the production of passenger compartment trim. The material for the supporting structure was polypropylene (PP), while the soft foam layer consisted of an expandable thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). The decorative materials used varied between relatively thin TPE sheet, relatively thick TPE sheet and alcantara sheet.The mould used for the dem-onstration, built by Kaufmann and equipped with a vertically sliding table, was mounted on a Krauss-Maffei two-component injection moulding machine having a clamping force of 6,500 kN. One injection unit injected the material for the supporting structure (PP), the other injected the expandable TPE. For the purpose of the demonstration, both the placing of the decora-tive material in the mould and the removal of the finished part from the mould were carried out

manually (these operations are performed automatically in mass production). Possible applica-tions outside the automotive industry, are e.g. stadium and similar seating systems, or arm and head rests in airplanes and train carriages.

Tobias Muffler, Managing Direc-tor of Muffler-Plastic, envis-aged a definite surge forward in innovative plastics processing thanks to this new develop-ment: “We are convinced that the Varysoft® process offers enormous potential when it comes to the development and production of moulded parts for car interiors. And we expect that this technology will really come into its own – slowly but surely – in mass production, initially for relatively small production runs or for special luxury car models. As our skill in the use of the process in mass production

increases, we can envisage using Varysoft® parts for all mid-range cars. We also envisage possible applications in commercial vehicles, in the furniture and electrical engineering industries and in the sports and household appliance industries.”

Varysoft®: soft-touch foam exactly where it is neededThe Varysoft® process devel-oped by Kaufmann permits the single-process production of a moulded part consisting of three different layers: The support-ing structure, the foam and the decorative material. The geom-etry of the back injection mould enables injection of an interme-diate layer of foam – either TPE or PUR – of varying thickness in keeping with the degree of comfort required in any one particular area of the part. The back injection moulding process also ensures gentle treatment of the decorative material during the entire processing operation. For the production of a passen-ger compartment component, the Varysoft® process permits the injection of a layer of foam (yellow) exactly where it is required in the part and also in the desired thickness for com-fort, as the cross-section clearly shows.

Graphik: Georg Kaufmann Formenbau

ALTANA acquires ABB Micafil’s polyurethane casting resins businessThe specialty chemicals Group ALTANA has acquired with immediate effect the polyure-

thane casting resins business of ABB Micafil, a business unit of ABB Switzerland. The business is operated under the brand names of Micares and Resodip. Polyurethane casting resins are

used in electrical and electri-cal engineering applications for high voltage applications, among others, and in the auto-motive industry. The acquired business will be incorporated

into the ELANTAS Electrical Insulation division. In the future, the products will be manufactured at the produc-tion sites in Collecchio (Italy) and Hamburg (Germany).

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BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives in EuropeWith immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF SE will increase its European selling prices for the following products:1,4 Butanediol (BDO) +250 EUR/mt

Tetrahydrofuran (THF) +250 EUR/mt

Polytetramethyleneetherglycol

(PolyTHF®) +330 EUR/mt

N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP) +250 EUR/mt

Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) +250 EUR/mt

New BASF Product Finder Now OnlineExactly what products does BASF produce, and for which in-dustries? Quick answers to those questions are now available for customers and any other interested parties on the BASF company website at www.basf.com/productfinder. The product finder lists all the main BASF products along with matching market criteria. In addition to searching for selecting products by name, users can also look up products by client industry, basic chemical substance and availability in different coun-tries. Users define the desired search parameters and a list of product lines is then displayed. Each product line comes with a brief description, links for further information and contact details. A search for vitamins for the food industry for instance will show 21 BASF product lines.An added benefit of the new online application, which is updated on a continuous basis: it makes BASF products easier to find via popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Bayer MaterialScience raises prices for aliphatic isocyanatesBayer MaterialScience AG is rais-ing its selling prices for aliphatic isocyanates in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) re-gion by between 6 and 8 percent with immediate effect. This price increase affects the mono-meric diisocyanates HDI (hexa-methylene diisocyanate), IPDI (isophorone diisocyanate), and H12MDI (dicyclohexyl methane diisocyanate, Desmodur® W) and their derivatives, the HDI and IPDI polyisocyanates from the Desmodur® N, Desmodur®

BL, Desmodur® Z and Bayhy-dur® product families. Further increases were announced for the product groups diphenyl-methane diisocyanate (MDI), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and polyether (PET) worldwide by EUR 0.25/kg effective June 1, 2010. Current contractual agree-ments will be fulfilled.

Polyurethane coating for better protectionBRAND Gmbh & CO KG: The PUR coating envelops the volu-metric flasks BLAUBRAND®, PURprotect, Class A like a pro-tective skin.In the event of glass breakage, the safety coating helps contain the glass fragments. Compared to uncoated glass flasks the elec-trostatic charge is not increased. The light blue coating facilitates optical distinction. The maxi-mum operating temperature at dry heat is 135 °C (expo-sure time < 30 min). Frequent autoclaving at 121 °C reduces splintering protection. Cleaning up to max. 95 °C.

Cario re-launchesAfter the take-over by Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bosch, who brings with him many years experience in the industry, Cario is re launch-ing as Cario Dosiertechnologie GmbH. Cario is well-known for its customised dispensing machinery, built individually according to customer require-ments. 40 years experience will be combined with modern en-gineering for continued service in dispensing machines, plant engineering and toll manufac-turing. The individual approach will remain in the foreground, to ensure that Cario products are optimally integrated into customers processes. Cario Dosiertechnologie GmbH is active in all kinds of mixing and dosing technology used for adhesives, castings, sealants, and foaming.

Chemtura Opens Technical Center of Excellence in Nanjing, China for Asia-Pacific RegionIn May 2010, Chemtura Corpo-ration announced the opening of a new Application Develop-ment Center (ADC) in the Nan-jing Economic & Technological

Development Zone, serving as Chemtura’s technical center of excellence for its businesses in the Asia/Pacific region. The ADC consists of a group of state-of-the-art laboratories serving as a technical center of excellence for Chemtura businesses in the Asia-Pacific region, including AgroSolutions(TM), Antioxi-dant/UV Stabilizers, Consumer Products, Flame Retardants, Petroleum Additives, and Ure-thanes.According to Charles Guo, Director of the ADC, external initiatives will be supported such as development of new formulations aimed at local customer needs, evaluation of new-product opportunities, training of local distributors and key customers to increase their competitiveness, provision of technical support for tolling or contract manufacturing, and the enhancement of Chemtura product quality. The ADC also will support internal employee training, promotional activities and regulatory requirements, quality control on locally sourced material, and transfer

to the local technical team of knowledge gained through research and development, Guo said. Chemtura recently ex-panded its region headquarters in Shanghai, and is recruiting additional staff in Shanghai, Nanjing and elsewhere to fulfill its growth plan in China and the region.

Dow Raises Prices for all Polyols, MDI, and PU Systems in Europe, Middle East, and AfricaDow Europe GmbH, Dow Poly-urethanes and Dow Formulated Systems will raise prices for all Polyols, MDI, and for polyure-thane systems up to 250 Euro per metric ton in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The increase is effective immediately or as contracts allow.

Dow Automotive Systems reacts to increasing costs Despite relentless cost increases in energy and raw material feedstocks directly impacting its glass bonding product range, Dow Automotive Systems is preparing to introduce two

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new glass bonding technolo-gies which demonstrate that it continues to proactively invest in R&D and is committed to providing innovative solutions to its customers. Benefiting from the R&D investment and mate-rial and production knowledge of The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Automotive Systems will introduce two innovative bond-ing solutions for both OEM and aftermarket applications:• BETASEAL™ 1580: A crash-

test proven, easy-to-apply adhesive compatible with standard application guns. It enables 30-minute safe drive-away time (SDAT) making it one of the fastest and safest one-component systems on the market today.

• BETAWIPE™ Hydro: A VOC-free, pre-treatment technology that will be part of a novel, zero-emission glass bonding system and is the world’s first one-component, water-based activation technology in au-tomotive glazing. It is “ready to use” and requires neither premixing nor specific equip-ment investment. BETAWIPE Hydro can help save time and labor while reducing complex-ity – plus, it is compatible with Dow Automotive Systems’ BE-TASEAL™ Uni-wipe adhesive systems.

“The challenges affecting our business are significant,” said Grant Fisher, vice president, glass and plastic bonding. Stress-ing that customer relations are a key component of continued business success, he added, “We are now meeting with all of our customers to discuss together how we can best manage the increased cost pressures affect-ing all polyurethane adhesive materials. We are determined to continue providing maxi-mum value as demonstrated by our new BETASEAL adhesive and BETAWIPE Hydro, our zero-emissions, pre-treatment technology.”

Dr. Freist Automotive buys the Bielefeld (Germany) site of AKsysOn 1st of May 2010 Dr. Freist Automotive GmbH (located in Goslar, Germany) bought the

Bielefeld site of international automotive supplier AKsys, with 75 employees. Production of acoustic systems for the automo-tive industry will continue. Liquidator Tobias Hoefer man-aged the Bielefeld site through insolvency for 12 months, and implemented a reorganisation and restructuring program. This allowed him to run the business at full scale production, even after the insolvency proceedings opened on 1st September, 2009. This was an important condition for the sale. By the beginning of April, Hoefer was already able to announce the sale of the noise absorption business unit to FAIST ChemTec GmbH and the HANNOVER Finanz Group. Automotive supplier Borgers AG has bought the Isolation busi-ness unit with sites in Krumbach and Ellzee. Up to now, Hoefer was able to save 1 025 world-wide in both business units of the former AKsys.

Huntsman to Expand Llanelli, Wales Specialty Amines Manufacturing CapacityHuntsman Performance Prod-ucts announced that it will expand manufacturing capacity of its specialty amines manufac-turing facility located in Llanelli, Wales. The planned expansion will increase existing capacity by more than 50%. The investment will boost its production capa-bilities primarily related to its JEFFAMINE® polyetheramines family of products, as well as for Diglycolamine® Agent (DGA® Agent) and morpholine. Daniele Ferrari, President of Performance Products, said, “The Llanelli site is a strategic cornerstone for meeting our global cus-tomer needs. This expansion represents our commitment to these high-growth product lines that we have identified as being strategically important for our future growth and comple-ments other investments in our amine manufacturing capac-ity, especially in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, where we have recently commissioned our joint venture world-scale ethyleneamine plant and announced a memorandum of understanding to study a future Morpholine-DGA® Agent investment.” “This is great news

for Llanelli and for Wales – and comes at a crucial phase of recovery from recession,” said Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones. He added, “The Huntsman Corporation is a truly global player, and their decision to expand in Wales underlies the advantages our country offers as a location for ambitious compa-nies.” John Smyth, Vice Presi-dent, Performance Products for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, said: “This expansion is required to ensure Huntsman remains ahead of the demand curve and continues to satisfy the dramatic growth that we have seen in recent years for polyetheramines in the epoxy composite and construction market segments, as well as for Diglycolamine® Agent (DGA® Agent) and morpholine for gas treating and electronics end-uses.”

Huntsman to Expand its JEFFAMINE® Capacity in SingaporeHuntsman announced that it will expand manufacturing capacity of its JEFFAMINE® polyetheramine manufacturing facility located on Jurong Island, Singapore. The planned expan-sion is anticipated to occur by the end of the third quarter of this year and will increase exist-ing capacity by more than 50%.“This facility, which began operations in 2007, has been a critical strategic manufacturing

platform in meeting the regional demands for JEFFAMINE® polyetheramines in Asia over the past three years. Rapidly growing regional demand neces-sitates this additional invest-ment to meet the markets’ increasing requirements,” said Steve Stilliard, Vice President, Performance Products – Asia Pacific.

Johnson Controls Expresses Interest in Acquisition of Visteon Interiors and Electronics BusinessesJohnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI) announced that it sent a letter to Visteon Corporation expressing interest in acquiring Visteon’s interiors and electron-ics businesses. Johnson Controls is offering $1.25 billion in cash for the businesses, subject to due diligence, the execution of a definitive agreement and the approval of the Johnson Con-trols Board of Directors. In June 2010, Visteon has rejected this unsolicited proposal from John-son Controls, Inc. but Johnson Controls remains interested in its proposal.

Perstorp doubles Di-Penta production in Bruchhausen As the largest global producer of di-pentaerythritol, Perstorp, is working on all fronts to meet customer demand for Perstorp Di-Penta and the performance it offers in wide range of end

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COIM to invest in U.S. to increase its polyester polyols capacityCOIM USA Inc. announced an investment in infrastructures and production capacity in its site located in West Deptford, New Jersey. The first phase of the investment, expected to be completed by December 2010, includes a rail terminal as well as 15 new storage tanks in view of a 50% polyester polyols capacity expansion during 2011.Financial details are not being disclosed.

CorrectionREPI LLC - New Sales Manager in the USREPI LLC, American subsidiary of the Italian producer of pig-ment dispersions REPI S.p.A., is strengthening its sales activities in North America. On February 1st, 2010, Mr. John Turnour, who has been working for more than 25 years in different positions in the polyurethane industry, joined the team in the US and, as Sales Manager, he will con-tribute to the further expansion of REPI LLC in North America.

REPI LLC, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, offers pigment pastes and special liquid addi-tives to the PU industry.

Bayer MaterialScience inaugurates EcoCommercial Building Conference Center in PittsburghThere’s a new addition to Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s head-quarters campus in suburban Pittsburgh: End of May 2010, the company officially unveiled

its EcoCommercial Building Conference Center. This solar-powered, net-zero-energy, net-zero-emissions facility will serve as a showcase and education center for sustainable building solutions, as well as a working center for evaluating new sus-tainable construction materials and technologies.The 800-square-foot EcoCom-mercial Building Conference Center was originally designed and constructed by Penn State University students as a residential housing concept for the U.S. Department of Energy 2009 Solar Decathlon competi-tion in Washington, D.C., under the name “Natural Fusion”. The Solar Decathlon is a biannual international competition spon-sored by the U.S. Department of Energy to inspire university students and faculty to design, build and operate an entirely solar-powered house. The Bayer USA Foundation donated $10,000 while Bayer Materi-alScience LLC made in-kind do-nations of raw materials to sup-port the Penn State project, and its experts provided guidance

throughout the project includ-ing initial design, prototyping, testing, and construction.Bayer MaterialScience’s North American EcoCommercial Build-ing Program (ECB) was launched April 26th, 2010, and advocates a holistic, collaborative approach to sustainable building design and construction. Network member organizations provide products and/or services aligned with seven building solution areas (Insulation; Daylighting; Illumination; Indoor Environ-mental Quality; Sustainable Energy; Intelligent Building; and Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) that help to in-crease sustainability and reduce energy costs.To date, Bayer MaterialScience currently has four EcoCommer-cial Building showcase projects. In addition to the Conference Center in Pittsburgh, the other facilities are an operational children’s day care center for employees of Bayer CropScience in Germany, an operational Bayer administration building in Belgium, and an office building under construction in India.

products. The company has now nearly doubled the production of Di-Penta at its Bruchhausen site and is on track to reach nearly triple the total production capac-ity since starting the project, by the end of this year. The demand for Perstorp Di-Penta grows from its power to enable improved performance in many environ-mentally friendly applications including UV cured coatings, synthetic lubricants, high solids alkyd coatings, fire resistant Charmor® coatings and lead-free PVC stabilizers. To provide cus-tomers with effective solutions and meet their high quality requirements, Perstorp’s work to maximize Di-Penta production capacity is now giving results. “In 2008 we started investigat-ing which of our sites had the highest potential to increase capacity and Bruchhausen was the strongest candidate,” said

Perstorp Product Manager for Di-Penta, Andreas Nilsson. “Rather than investing in building more capacity at the site, we applied a wealth of engineering expertise and innovation to optimize pro-duction efficiency and the high quality that our Di-Penta stands for.” The increased efficiency that Perstorp’s engineering team has achieved at the Bruchhausen site has so far nearly doubled produc-tion capacity. And Perstorp ex-pects further production increase by the end of this year, poten-tially tripling the total produc-tion capacity of the Bruchhausen site since the start of the project. The company’s Bruchhausen site is where the majority of Di-Penta for the most important segments in Europe is produced, includ-ing those bound for fire-resistant coatings, lead-free PVCs and high solids coatings. While Perstorp is applying the same efficiency in-

novation mindset to their other Di-Penta production sites, they are not stopping there.

Perstorp reports strong first quarter of 2010The first quarter of 2010 is characterized by strong volume growth and cost containment for specialty chemicals Group Perstorp, resulting in net sales rising 21% to SEK 3,607 million and operating profit amounting to SEK 430 m. The operating profit before depreciation and amortization recovered dramati-cally and amounted to SEK 430 (118) m. The increase in operat-ing profit was primarily driven by improved demand, especially for Perstorp’s oxo products, spe-cialty polyols and caprolactones. This trend is expected to con-tinue and Perstorp´s current ca-pacity increase for caprolactones will meet the market’s growing

need for this product when the new plant goes into operation in 2011. Perstorp’s business for for-malin technology and catalysts, Formox, sold its first “turbo charger” plant, significantly cut-ting energy consumption. “We have had a very positive start to 2010 with a strong demand for virtually all products in our portfolio and the outlook for the rest of the year remains positive. There are many interesting and exciting activities underway that will further strengthen our position. For example, we will shortly be launching the world’s first renewable Penta – VoxtarTM – which is excellent proof that we’re living the vision of con-tributing to a better and more sustainable society through innovative chemical solutions”, said Martin Lundin, President and CEO of Perstorp.

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First-hand experience with efficient Tooling systems

The master class students from the Bundesfachschule

Modellbau in Bad Wildungen recently obtained a good insight of what would be expected from a future pattern maker. A team of experts from RAMPF Tooling informed the 40 master class students about new systems and application methods for various modeling materials like boards, gelcoats, laminating pastes, and casting systems. This was all put into practice by making a boat hull.

The workshop program was very comprehensive. The master class students from the Bundes-fachschule Modellbau in Bad Wildungen were not only given a complete theoretical over-view into the world of Tooling but were also allowed to get involved practically. The partici-pants made parts and samples using the various RAKU-TOOL products whilst the RAMPF Tool-ing experts, Bernhard Deliege, Matthias Traxel, and Marcus Vohrer, introduced different

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Philippe Halloin to head Parker Seal Group Europe

Philippe Halloin has been appointed as Vice President

of Operations of the Parker Seal Group Europe effective 1st June 2010. He will succeed Joachim Guhe, who assumed respon-sibility for Parker’s European Filtration Group in March. By establishing the new role of a European Vice President of Operations in May 2009, the Parker Hannifin Corporation underlined Europe’s importance

in the global market of sealings systems for a wide range of in-dustrial applications and related products such as EMI shielding and thermally conductive ma-terials.

Philippe Halloin has a Master of Science degree from the Free University of Brussels with a major in electronics. As Vice President of Operations, the 47-year-old engineer, who holds the Belgian and German citizen-ships, will be responsible for coordination, optimisation and strategic alignment – including additional strategic acquisi-tions – of the European Seal Group’s three divisions (Packing Division, O-Ring Division, and Chomerics Division) as well as the nine Europe-wide locations.

In 1986 Halloin joined Parker’s Hydraulic Controls Division as a development engineer for elec-tronic valve control. After a few years as a sales engineer for vari-

ous product lines he assumed responsibility for Marketing and Engineering as Business Unit Manager for Proportional Valves in 1995 and, two years later, for Industrial valves. His special achievements as Business Unit Manager included the develop-ment of a new generation of proportional valves and systems for more precise positioning of actuators and the integration of the Hydraulik-Ring AG product line.

In 2000 Halloin was appointed as General Manager of the Parker Polyflex Division, the corporation’s specialist for thermoplastic hose products. In this role, his major successes included the integration of two acquisitions and the extensive restructuring of the business including the penetration of the oil & gas market with new products and technologies. Under the leadership of Philippe Halloin, who was also respon-

sible for an extensive invest-ment programme, the division managed to operate profitably and achieved the corporate targets even in a difficult market environment. In his new role at the helm of the European Seal Group, Halloin’s main focus will be on increasing the Group’s activities in growth and new geographic markets like Eastern Europe as well as on new technologies. Halloin: “Our alignment for the future is based on several corner-stones. They include geographic expansions and the penetration of strong-growth markets as well as the continuation of our accel-erated development of innova-tive technologies addressing the needs of economy and ecology, which are generated in close partnership with our custom-ers and thus exactly meet the demands of the market.”

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NEWSKurt Bock appointed new chairman of BASF’s Board of Executive DirectorsThe Supervisory Board of BASF SE has appointed Dr. Kurt Bock (51) to succeed Dr. Jürgen Ham-brecht as chairman of the Board

of Executive Directors of BASF. Dr. Martin Brudermüller (49) will become vice chairman of the Board of Executive Directors. Both appointments will take ef-fect following the end of the An-nual Meeting on May 6th, 2011.

“Kurt Bock is an entrepreneur with an extensive international experience. Under his leader-ship, he will continue the company’s success together with his colleagues on the Board of Executive Directors and the global BASF team,” said Eggert Voscherau, chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE.The Supervisory Board will de-cide on further appointments to the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE in early 2011.

Personnel Changes at BASFThe Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE announced the fol-lowing changes in its manage-ment team.Jacques Delmoitiez (57), cur-rently President of BASF’sPolyurethanes division lo-cated in Brussels, Belgium, will

become President of BASF’s regional division Europe, located in Ludwigshafen, Germany, effective October 1st, 2010. The current President, Dr. Walter Seufert (59) is retiring as of Sep-tember 30th, 2010.Wayne T. Smith (50), currently President of BASF’s Catalysts division located in Iselin, New

Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Dr Kurt Bock, Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau Jacques Delmoitiez

build-up methods like casting, lay-up techniques, and machin-ing.

A highlight of the event was the production of a boat hull using resin infusion. The resin infu-sion process is normally used for the manufacture of large parts, so the boat hull model gave the

master class students a good overview of important points to consider when using the resin infusion technology. The individual production steps were demonstrated in great detail by B. Deliege, M. Traxel, and M. Vohrer. First, the dry fiber package was inserted, then the peel ply, flow mesh, resin flow,

and vacuum channels were put in place followed by build-up of a vacuum bag and impregna-tion of the fibers through resin infusion.

“Helping with the different working steps and processes the master class students gained a lot of hands on experience. By

getting involved themselves the students learn more than just by listening,” explained Bernhard Deliege, Sales Manager Northern Europe for RAMPF Tooling.

The master class students are learning from RAMPF Tooling. The Tooling workshop gave the stu-

dents an opportunity to experience the large product range and various build-up methods first-hand.

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Jersey, will take over responsi-bilities for the Polyurethanes division as of September 1 1st, 2010. Frank A. Bozich (49) will become head of the Catalysts division. He is currently responsible for the area of precious and basic metals in the Catalysts division.

Hans-Georg Härter, Chief Executive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, new Director

On May 26th, 2010, the com-bined shareholders’ meeting of Faurecia has met and approved all resolutions up for vote. In particular, it has approved the appointment of Mr. Hans-Georg Härter, CEO of ZF Friedrich-shafen AG, as Director of Faure-cia, for a period of six years.Hans-Georg Härter has spent his whole career within the ZF Group, which he joined in 1973. He was appointed Chief Execu-tive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG in January 2007.

Changes to Perstorp’s boardA number of changes to Per-

storp’s board were carried out at the annual general meeting of Perstorp Holding AB, on May 18th. Bo Dankis stepped down as chairman of the board and handed over his position to the vice chairman Lennart Holm. New to the board is Karin Markides, president and CEO of the Chalmers Group and presi-dent at Chalmers University of Technology.Bo Dankis stepped down as chairman of the board of Per-storp Holding AB and left the board. Karin Markides is a professor of analytical chemistry and has been a member of the EU com-mission’s ”High Level Group (HLG) on the Competitiveness of the European Chemicals Industry” with the task of analyzing the European chemi-cal industry’s challenges and possibilities for competing with the rest of the world. She will also be chairman of the recently established ”Technical Commit-tee” of Perstorp Holding AB’s board.

REACH Workable Solution for Plastics RecyclersThe European Plastics Convert-ers (EuPC), the European Plastics Recyclers (EuPR), PlasticsEurope and Vinyl 2010 have officially launched the Safety Datasheets for Recyclates project (in short SDS-R).The background is the European chemical legislation REACH that requires an information exchange between producers and users of plastic materials. Due to their particular position in the supply chain, plastics

recyclers may have difficulties to assemble the necessary waste composition information and may thus not be able to provide to their customers the informa-tion required to fulfill their REACH obligations.The aim of the project is to create tailor-made Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for recycled plas-tics. They will be downloadable from an interactive website ac-cessible to the recyclers.These SDS will be based on the historical data for polymers and toxicological data for polymer additives. Recyclers will be prompted to input specific data related to the recycled articles in order to improve the accuracy and the quality of the SDS.The four organisations are co-funding this project with a significant budget and have numerous experts working on it in order to remove an important barrier for plastics recyclers’ REACH compliance.

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COMPANY PRESENTATION

Graco has changed the rules on PU Processing

For decades, polyurethane-processing has required

special, customer specific ma-chinery, resulting in high capital investment for manufacturers.

Graco Inc. has addressed this challenge by presenting a new, flexible HFR (Hydraulic Fixed Ratio) Metering System at their Belgium plant, end April 2010. The new ‘allround talent’ is a hydraulic, fixed-ratio, dosing machine for processing two-component systems including flexible and rigid polyurethane foams, polyurethane elastomers, epoxies, silicones, and polyureas (Picture 1).

It’s compact design means the machine can be used both in house or moved around as required, and makes it suitable for a number of markets includ-ing automotive, construction, recreation, medical, electron-ics, solar, and white goods. The modular design allows manufac-turers to modify or add features to the system as their manu-facturing processes or products evolve. All this makes the new Graco HFR Metering System a flexible alternative to standard PU processing equipment and clearly reduces investment costs. This allows customers to enter markets, which were previously inaccessible, due to high invest-ment costs. A further advantage is the significantly shorter lead time for delivery of this modular machine in comparison to the traditional, customer specific processing equipment.

Alongside its standard features, the unit offers a fixed ratio range of 1:1 to 16:1 and flow rates of 1.3 to 45 lb/min. (0.6 to 20.5 kg/min.) and guarantees an accurate mix ratio from the first shot – first time and every time, meaning less waste. As the ma-chine is equipped with a piston pump (Graco Z-Series Horizon-tal Pumps) it can also process filled systems. The system uses ‘Graco Control Architecture’, a

standardized platform of control software and hardware, that makes set-up, material monitor-ing and system diagnostics easy. It is also equipped with a USB drive that allows the manufac-turer to insert a flash drive and download critical data such as pressure, temperature, actual ratio, and total flow output. The user interface stores 100 shot sizes and five sequences with 20 positions each (Picture 2).

With a base price of EUR 30,000.00 the HFR Metering System from Graco seems well suited to polyurethane spray foam, but PU elastomers is also a target market. In Polyurea Graco is more focused on automotive applications.

At the same time the company also presented the new Graco EP™ Pour Gun dispensing ma-chine, featuring a replaceable mixhead. This product has also been engineered to improve pro-duction efficiency and reduce costs.

The Graco EP™ Pour Gun is sure to change the way the

polyurethane industry thinks about mixheads. On first sight it looks like a normal spray gun (Picture 3).

That’s because it’s engineered to be reliable, light (3 kg), versatile – with features and technology that reduce cost of ownership in the long run.The Graco EP™ Pour Gun can process mix ratios from 1:1 up to >5:1 with flow rates of 1 to 50 lb/min (0,45 – 22,7 kg/min). The new mixing head can be used for high and low pressure machines and can handle dif-ferent viscosities easily. It can be used for rigid and flexible foam systems, with or without fillers, for open pour applica-tions and closed-mold injection. It is mechanically self-cleaning and therefore eliminates costly solvent flushing and includes a rebuild kit for quick and easy maintenance onsite (Picture 4 and 5).

The Graco EP™ Pour Gun is not just compatible with the HFR (Hydraulic Fixed Ratio) Metering SystemTM but also with Graco Reactor® IPH-25 and IPH-40.

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25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition6th – 9th September 2010Feria Valencia in Valencia, SpainOrganizer: WIP Renewable Ener-gies, Sylvensteinstr. 2, 81369 Munich, GermanyTel. +49-(0)89-72012735Fax +49-(0)89-72012791E-Mail: [email protected], wip-munich.de, photovoltaic-conference.com

22nd Conference Plastics Foam + Ceremony of Innovation Award Polyurethane 20108th – 9th September, 2010Location: Dow Deutschland Anla-gengesellschaft mbH,Werk Stade, Bützflether Sand, 21683 Stade, GermanyOrganizer: FSK (German Foamer Association + Polyurethane)Am Hauptbahnhof 10, 60329 Frankfurt/Main, GermanyTel. +49-(0)69-299207-0Fax +49-(0)69-299207-11E-Mail: [email protected]

BONDEXPO13th – 16th September 2010 Neue Messe Stuttgart, GermanyOrganizer: P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG, Gustav-Werner-Straße 6, 72636 Frickenhausen, GermanyTel. +49-(0)7025-9206-0Fax +49-(0)7025-9206-620www.bondexpo-messe.de

COMPOSITES EUROPE 14th – 16th September 2010Messe Essen, GermanyOrganizer: Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH, Project COMPOSITES EUROPEVölklinger Str. 4, 40219 Düsseldorf, GermanyTel. +49-(0)211-90191-226Fax +49-(0)211-90191-122E-Mail: [email protected], www.composites-europe.com

PU TECH Shanghai Expo ‘10China (Shanghai) International Polyurethane Exhibition & Con-ference 201015th – 17th September 2010Shanghai New International Expo Center, ChinaOrganizer: Professional Commit-tee of Polyurethane Products of China Plastics Processing Industry AssociationChina (Shanghai) International Polyurethane Exhibition Secre-tariat, 16H Building 2 Haishangjie

Block Number 588 Yingkou Rd., 200433 Shanghai, ChinaTel. +86-(0)21-55233699Fax +86-(0)21-55233900E-Mail: [email protected]

Asiamold 2010 15th – 17th September, 2010Polyworld Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou, ChinaOrganizer: DEMAT GmbHPO Box 110 611, 60041 Frankfurt, GermanyTel. +49-(0)69-274003-0Fax +49-(0)69-274003-40 E-Mail: info@ demat.com www.asiamold.de

KUWAIT PAINT FAIR 2010The 1st International Paint & Coating Exhibition Kuwait 21st – 23rd September 2010Safir International Hotel KuwaitOrganizer: Best Expo companyP.O. Box: 8856, Salmiya 22000, Kuwait Tel. +965 25715933Fax +965 25738036E-Mail: [email protected]

HUSUM WindEnergy 201021st – 25th September 2010Messe Husum, GermanyOrganizer: Messe HusumAm Messeplatz 16 – 18, 25813 Husum, GermanyTel. +49-(0)4841-902-0Fax +49-(0)4841-902-246E-Mail: [email protected], www.hu-sumwindenergy.com

Composites Engineering 201029th – 30th September 2010National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UKOrganizer: Leading Edge Events & Media100A High Street, Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 2ST, UK Tel.+44-(0)208-783-2399E-Mail: [email protected]

UTECH North America 201011th – 13th October 2010Houston, Texas, USAOrganizer: Crain Communica-tions Ltd., UT Int.3rd Floor, 21 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY, UK Tel. +44-(0)20-7457-1431 Fax +44-(0)20-7457-1440 E-Mail: [email protected] www.utechnorthamerica.nl

JEC ASIA 2010 12th – 14th October 2010Suntec Exhibition Centre – Level 6, Singapore Organizer: JEC GROUP 25 boulevard de l’Amiral Bruix, 75116 Paris, FranceTel. +33-(0)1-457887-37Fax +33-(0)1-405985-46E-Mail: [email protected], www.jeccomposites.com

SURFPROTECT 2010 International Fair of Surface Protection19th – 21st October 2010EXPO SILESIA Sosnowiec, PolandOrganizer: Kolporter EXPO – EXPO SILESIA, Braci Mieroszews-kich 124 Str., 41-219 Sosnowiec, PolandTel. +48-32-7887-541Fax +48-32-7887-526E-Mail: agnieszka.bialas@ exposilesia.pl www.kolporterexpo.pl

MATERIALICA 201019th – 21st October 2010Neue Messe Munich, GermanyOrganizer: MunichExpo Veran-staltungs GmbH, Zamdorfer Str. 100, 81677 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-(0)89-322991-0 Fax +49-(0)89-322991-19 E-Mail: [email protected]

K 201027th October – 3rd November 10Messe Düsseldorf, GermanyOrganizer: Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, PO Box 10 10 06, 40001 Düsseldorf, GermanyTel. +49-(0)211-4560-01Fax +49-(0)211-4560-668E-Mail: [email protected], www.messe-duesseldorf.de

Smart coatings VI9th – 10th November 2010Berlin, GermanyOrganizer: Vincentz NetworkPlathnerstr. 4c, 30175 Hannover Tel. +49-(0)511-9910-273/4Fax +49-(0)511-9910-279E-Mail: nicole.steinbach@ vincentz.net, www.european-coatings.com/events

EUROCOAT 20109th – 11th November 2010Fiera di Genova, Genoa, Italy Organizer: Groupe ETAI – Euro-coat, Immeuble Parc II, 10 place du Général de Gaulle 92160 Antony, France Tel. +33-(0)1-77929292 Fax +33-(0)1-779298-20E-Mail: [email protected]

XXX. FATIPEC Congress 20109th – 11th November 2010Genova, ItalyOrganizer: AITIVA (Italian Asso-ciation of Paints and Related Industries Technicians)F Piazza R. Morandi 2, 20121 Milan, ItalyTel. +39-(0)2-76313409Fax +39-(0)2-784969E-Mail: [email protected]

PDA Europe 201015th – 17th November 2010Sitges / Barcelona, SpainOrganizer: Polyurea Development Association Europe, AISBL142 Avenue Jules Bordet, 1140 Brussels, BelgiumTel. +32-2-761-1611Fax +32-2-761-1699E-Mail: [email protected]

RAPRA Seminar: “Understanding Polyurethanes: Formulations & Applications”16th – 18th November, 2010Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt, GermanyOrganizer: Smithers RapraShawbury, Shrewsbury, Shrop-shire SY4 4NR, UKTel. +44-(0)1939-250383Fax +44-(0)1939-252416E-Mail: [email protected]

RubPlast EXPO 201017th – 19th November 2010EXPO SILESIA Sosnowiec, PolandOrganizer: Kolporter EXPO - EXPO SILESIA, Braci Mieroszews-kich 124 Str., 41-219 Sosnowiec, PolandTel. +48-32-7887-541Fax +48-32-7887-526E-Mail: [email protected]

The Big 5 – Int. Building & Construction Show 21st – 24th November 2010Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAEOrganizer: dmg world media Dubai Ltd., PO Box 33817, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Paula Al Chami (Exhibition Director)Tel. +971-(0)4-438-0355Fax +971-(0)4-438-0356E-Mail: [email protected]

EVENT CALENDAR

Further information about events on www.fapu.de

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29th MOTEK and 4th BONDexpo from 13th–16th September at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre

Holland Partner Country of COMPOSITES EUROPE 2010

Holland presents itself as the first partner country of

COMPOSITES EUROPE at this year’s European Trade Fair and Forum for Composite Materials, Technology, and Applications. The fifth edition of the COM-POSITES EUROPE Trade Fair, which will take place in Essen from 14th to 16th September 2010, will be a meeting place for companies involved in the supply of raw materials, and the processing and production of fibre reinforced plastics. The many different exhibitors from Holland shall also be presenting

themselves at the Dutch country pavilion. The Dutch composites industry is represented by the Vereniging Kunststof Compo-sieten Nederland (VKCN), the association for synthetic com-posites in the Netherlands.

There are approximately 350 companies active in the com-posites industry in Holland, of which 250 are involved in pro-duction, according to the VKCN. The Dutch composites industry is defined by small and medium-sized companies and focuses on the production of custom

designs and niche markets. The major customers for fibre reinforced plastics in Holland include the maritime, construc-tion, and transport industries. However, there is also a steady increase in demand from the aviation industry and the wind energy sector.

This year, COMPOSITES EU-ROPE expects to welcome 350 exhibitors from 25 countries to the trade fair at the Essen Exhibition Centre. The spectrum of technologies and products on display shall cover the

entire value chain of reinforced plastics. COMPOSITES EUROPE is organized by Reed Exhibi-tions in cooperation with the European Composites Industry Association, EuCIA, and the international trade magazine, Reinforced Plastics. The parallel ALUMINIUM 2010 world trade fair will also be taking place in Essen at the same time. Together the two trade fairs will present over 1,000 exhibitors from the world of lightweight construc-tion.

The MOTEK international trade fair for assembly and

handling technology, as well as the BONDexpo trade fair for in-dustrial bonding technology, are already demonstrating extreme-ly dynamic development at the beginning of 2010, and will thus once again live up to their reputation as a leading interna-

tional trend barometer. With currently 750 exhibitors occupy-ing 258,000 square feet of net floor space, and 70 exhibitors occupying 15,000 square feet of net floor space respectively, the two events are well on the way and will certainly break the thousand mark before the event opens in fall 2010!

And thus MOTEK, internation-ally recognised as a leading trade fair, is leaving the competition even further behind, especially in light of the fact that despite the difficult times expected in 2010, more and more robot manufacturers and robot inte-grators are deciding in favour of MOTEK as their most important

information, business, and marketing platform. At the same time, the long-term strategy of establishing BONDexpo as a complementary trade fair is also paying off, which will take place concurrent to MOTEK for the fourth time already, and which alone is expected to draw more than 100 exhibitors.

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BONDexpo Expands the Pro-cess SequenceThe influx of robotics technolo-gy, which was scarcely hoped for in its current form, can be traced back to a considerable extent to the fact that users don’t want to look at robots in an “isolated” fashion as some sort of univer-sally exploitable machine, but rather as an integrated building block in automated production, assembly and material flow solu-tions. Like no other trade fair in the world, MOTEK – and BOND-expo as a supplement including, amongst other technologies,

robot aided bonding etc. – pre-sents comprehensive worldwide offerings covering components, modules, subsystems, and com-plete solutions for production and assembly automation, each in a strictly applications-related manner!

The 29th MOTEK and the 4th BONDexpo will not only once again be accompanied by the time-tested exhibitor forum, theme parks and special shows: Entirely new approaches will also be explored with a relaunch of the MICROSYS trade fair for

micro and nano-technology in R&D, production, and applica-tions engineering.

After all, one of our current challenges, which will take on even more significance in the future, is certainly the devel-opment and production of manufacturing and assembly automation methods specifically for microsystems technology – a field for which MOTEK exhibi-tors are plainly predestined! For this reason, the 4th MICROSYS, although interrupted in the past, will take place concurrent

to MOTEK and BONDexpo at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre from the 13th through the 16th of September 2010. As a result, in-depth insights will be presented to exhibitors, users and expert visitors into the assembly tech-nologies of the future, which will be distinguished to an ever greater extent by miniaturisa-tion based on efforts to promote the efficient use of resources by means of material efficiency and functions integration.

OTHER EVENTS

Polyurethanes 2010 Techni-cal Conference: Registration Now OpenCPI has opened registration for the Polyurethanes 2010 Techni-cal Conference, in partnership with UTECH North America on October 11th – 13th, 2010 at the George R. Brown Conven-tion Center in Houston, Texas. Register now to get Early Bird pricing rates at www.american-chemistry.com/polyurethane.The Polyurethanes 2010 Techni-cal Conference, in partnership with UTECH North America, provides an opportunity to reach an audience of more than 1,000 manufacturers and pro-cessors of polyurethane-based products across all industrial sectors. This year’s Technical Conference will feature 16 Tech-nical Sessions consisting of more than 70 presentations. Sessions will address flammability per-formance and flame retardants, energy critical foams, renewable content polyols, sustainability, chemistry and fundamentals and more. Papers and posters will address innovations, and developments in multiple poly-urethane areas, including flex-ible slabstock, flexible molded, rigid foam, soy-based polyols, polyurethane waterborne disper-sions, equipment/machinery, cast elastomers, thermoplastic polyurethanes, integral skin, Reaction Injection Molding

(RIM), binders/fillers, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and more.Call For PostersPoster abstracts are being ac-cepted until September 1st, 2010.

Hall 8.0 booked out over 75 percentEuroMold, World Fair for Mold-making and Tooling, Design and Application Development, reports a strong demand from numerous market leaders, mainly from Germany and West Europe. More than 75 percent of available space in hall 8.0 which focuses on Moldmaking and Tooling has already been sold.At the present point of time Italy and France are the biggest international participating coun-tries at EuroMold 2010, followed by China, Portugal, Spain, UK and Switzerland. Compared to the same period of the previous year especially France and Spain could increase its numbers of exhibitors. In total the interna-tional attendance at EuroMold currently adds up to approx. 30% which is equal with last years level.

Moldmaking and Tooling is the core sector of EuroMold and comprises 24 percent of all ex-hibitors, followed by Rapid Pro-totyping and Tooling, Hard-ware and Software, and Patternmak-ing and Prototyping. The sectors of Hardware and Software as

well as Design could increase their quota considerably.

25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition WIP - Renewable Energies an-nounces a remarkable increase in bookings for exhibition space at the 25th European Photovolta-ic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition / 5th World Confer-ence on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (25th EU PVSEC / WCPEC-5) in Valencia, Spain, in September 2010.The 25th EU PVSEC / WCPEC-5 has more exhibition space booked than in 2009 (exhibition area: 65,000 sqm). This demon-strates how the event continues its growth and confirms the ever rising commitment of the inter-national PV community.The exhibitor structure shows a particularly strong participa-tion of PV equipment manu-facturers at the 25th EU PVSEC / WCPEC-5. So far, the manufac-turers of PV equipment account for 40% of the currently booked space, and the number of book-ings by this key segment of the PV industry is already 20% higher than in 2009.The WCPEC-5 will bring to-gether the three most important global scientific and strategic PV Conferences: the 25th EU PVSEC, the 36th US IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference and the

20th Asia/Pacific PV Science and Engineering Conference. This unique PV solar gathering will constitute the world’s leading science-to-science, business-to-business and science-to industry forum for the global PV Solar sector. This joint event of the global PV community will take place in Valencia, Spain, from 6th – 10th September 2010 (Conference: 6th – 10th Septem-ber 2010 - Exhibition: 6th – 9th September 2010).

Call for Papers – Pipeline Coating 2011The economic crisis has affected pipeline construction as with many other industries, because of the lack of availability of finance for new projects, and because of the drop in oil and gas prices. However, oil prices are starting to rise again in 2010 and the outlook for pipe coating is very encouraging, according to Noru Tsalic, Consultant at Applied Market Information. He was speaking at the AMI confer-ence on Pipeline Coating held in February 2010 in Vienna, Austria.Russia has the largest natural gas reserves and is in the top 10 for oil reserves. Transneft has 49,000 km of pipelines and Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has 169,000 km of gas transmission systems accord-ing to Tial. The most common

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onshore coating in the country is polyethylene. The average pipeline lifespan is 33 years and around 34 % of oil trunklines are over 30 years old, which shows the potential for market growth. Dow Hyperlast has a new closed loop portable con-tinuous mixing plant to gener-ate glass syntactic polyurethane

on site. The company claims that this gives the fastest line pipe insulation in the world. The system is being used in the Gumusut-Kakap project of Sabah Shell Petroleum Company. Many pipelines are ageing. Berry Plastics has studied the durabil-ity of coatings. The company compared 3-layer PE, 3-layer

PP, liquid epoxy, FBE, polyure-thane, cold applied tapes and heat shrinkable sleeves, using extended periods of hot water immersion (HWI). In 1987 Shell used 120 day HWI testing. The water should be heated to the maximum pipe operating tem-perature. It is a useful method of testing coating performance.

The third AMI international conference on Pipeline Coating, will be held 7th – 9th February 2011 in Vienna, Austria. Offers of papers should be sent to Dr. Sally Humphreys (Email: [email protected]) before 6th Au-gust 2010.

WORLD OF POLYUREA

CASE Study “The Pearl beside the lake”In the town of Spittal, along

the south bank of the Millstät-ter Lake (Carinthia, Austria) a new Lido-Restaurant is under construction. Designed by the famous architect Hans Hollein, this building is part of a five piece ensemble called “Artists-In-Residence”, a project of the Soravia group.

For 2 years people made do with a small, temporary kiosk at the Lido. This summer the new res-taurant, distinguished by its spe-cial architecture, should open its doors. In the original plans, this gourmet restaurant, designed in the shape of a bisected frustum, was to be completely covered with aluminum, specially treated to achieve a rough, matt surface that would shimmer. De-spite the extensive experience of

the builder Jakob Frohner, this result would have required de-velopment of a completely new technology which would have stretched the budget of Euro 350,000 – 400,000 too far. The original construction plans for the restaurant had already been re-dimensioned by the authori-ties on price grounds, the indoor area was kept small, and the terrace outside designed to offer space for 100 guests. As part of the downsizing, a window on the north side was suddenly lost. As the outer shell was still missing, a 4 x 1.7 metre window could be cut out easily. The alu-minium shell would have cost another 120,000 – 130,000 Euro additional and problems with vertical connections couldn’t be solved.

A new method for covering the building had to be found. The architect specified the following requirements:• A moisture proof system

without any seams – sprayed on 3-layered plywood with insulation underneath

• the roof skin to be a combina-tion of colour – silver/chrome – with high gloss and 100 % color and UV stable.

• A surface that reflects both sunshine and artificial light

Minimum 10 years life warrantyThe Villacher company Hercules GmbH offered a special coating technology for 50,000 Euro – consequently the lido restaurant will be “sprayed“. Hubert Tomz, CEO of Hercules GmbH: “This coating system is an innova-tive high-gloss material, which

is sprayed on. At the request of the architect Hollein, a special glass-dust will be incorporated in the liquid system, so that the building will glimmer in the sunshine.”

Work on the shell should have started on 14th of June. But due to continuous rain and chaos at the construction side – “the car-penters didn’t do as they were asked. Seven people have been dismissed,” explained Hubert Tomz indignant. He and Dudley Primeaux, who had flown in specially for this application, were snookered at the time of our editorial deadline. Thank goodness – the 2010 football world cup was on TV.

So we will continue our CASE study in September.

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Summer Message from the PDA Europe President Karl. H. WuehrerDear Fellow PDA Europe Associate,

in 2007, the PDA Europe was born to create a POLYUREA community in Europe. Our goals then – and now – were to establish a polyurea user network of contractors, formu-lators, material suppliers, owners, and speci-fiers and to take action so that the material “Polyurea” finds its way into standards and specifications under its own name and not under the polyurethane umbrella.

Now, 3 years later, the board members are frequently asked by the members, meaning you, what does the PDA Europe do for me or why should I pay membership fees?

I would like to answer these questions with a modification of a phrase John F. Kennedy used in his inaugural speech in 1961: “Ask not what the PDA Europe can do for you, ask what you can do for the PDA Europe.”

The PDA Europe is not a professional asso-ciation where members/people pay for a full service. It lives by and through the involve-ment and active support of the members.

The first 2 years were marked by building a solid, financially healthy foundation. The success of the 3 annual conferences, thanks to the Program committee and the sponsors, helped relieve us a little bit.

Step by step the Industrial Relation com-mittee, more or less a one-man show (a special thanks to the Chairman Dr. Werner Bertleff), connected us with national and international organization in the construc-tion industry.

One result is the State-of-the-Art report “Polyurea in the Construction Industry and The Environment” from the joint working group of Deutsche Bauchemie e.V. and the PDA Europe where polyurea is presented

for the first time in Europe as a standalone class of coating material. So far the report is available in English and German and can be ordered in English www.pda-europe.org. We also took part in the organization of the polyurea session at the Utech 2009 and at the Innovation Forum in Saxony-Anhalt sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Science in February 2010.

During the last months the IR Committee linked itself to the roofing associations in Germany and UK.

Contact with the Deutsche Bauchemie e.V. and the German roofing association allowed us the once-in-a-decade chance to have polyurea accepted as a proven durable liquid plastic waterproofing material in the course of the revision of the 6 German DIN stan-dards related to all aspects of waterproofing in construction.

In 2009, our activities to get polyurea into the roofing standard DIN 18531 were rejected as the polyurea use could not be supported with solid Case Histories accord-ing to the formal requirements of the DIN committee.

Due to the amount of objections, includ-ing one from the PDA Europe, the DIN 18531 will start working soon to review their position. In addition, the revision of the umbrella standard DIN 18195 for waterproofing starts soon and the linked application standards, DIN 18532-18536, later this year.

This means that we now have the big chance to get polyurea for the first time into a na-tional standard, the DIN framework for con-struction related waterproofing membranes.An indispensable condition is that we can provide solid Case Histories, ideally over 5 years old.

Coming back to John F. Kennedy: It’s now up to you to help the PDA community. I urge you to take the time and fill out the submission forms for any type of sprayed polyurea waterproofing project. This is vital to the success of this initiative.

The message from the DIN working group is very clear. If we cannot provide Case Histories, polyurea will not be considered as a recognized material for waterproofing for many years. And please keep in mind that the German DINs are seen as a reference for other national specifications and even a base for European standards (EN).

The submission form can be downloaded under www.pda-europe.org/resources.asp and if you have any questions regarding the submission form, please contact one of the board members or myself.

Please fill in as detailed as possible and take into account that the DIN committee has oc-casionally visited jobsites all over Europe.

I don’t want to finish my letter without referring to our next annual conference “It’s Time to Polyurea”, from November 15th – 17th, 2010 in Sitges/Spain, and – again – to ask you for joining one of our committees:• Education committee, chairman Cees

Moorman• Program committee, chairlady Tania van

Buyten• Membership committee, Chairman Marc

Broekaert• Industrial Relation committee, Chairman

Werner BertleffHave a nice summer season and think about joining us for the next board meeting on September 2nd, 2010 in Brussels.

RegardsKarl H. WuehrerPDA Europe President

ASF raises prices for all Polyetheramines globally

Effective immediately or as existing contracts allow,

BASF is raising prices for its Polyetheramines portfolio glob-

ally by 100 Euros per metric ton or the equivalent amount in local currency. Polyetheramines are intermediate chemicals used

in the production of plastics, polyurea coatings, adhesives, and reaction injection moulding (RIM).

BASF has Polyetheramine manu-facturing capacities at its sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and in Geismar, Louisiana/USA.

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Sika Acquires a Majority Stake of a

Market Leader in Waterproofing in Japan

Visuron Technologies, Inc. acquired by The Hanson Group LLC

Sika AG has acquired a ma-jority stake in Dyflex HD

Co., Ltd., Japan. Dyflex is the market leader in liquid water-proofing in Japan with well established brands andchannels. The consolidated net sales in 2009 were approximate-ly JPY 14 billion (about CHF 165

million) with around 350 em-ployees. Dyflex was established in 1964 by Mr. Keisei Miura. The founder and CEO, Mr. Keisei Miura will stay with the com-pany to drive the continuous success and further development of the business and to ensure a smooth transition. This acquisi-

tion enables Sika to take a big step forward into the Japanese construction chemical market. Dyflex’s products and technolo-gies are complementary to Sika’s and will be rolled-out to other countries through the global sales network of the Sika Group. Dyflex’s customer base and sales

channels present significant po-tential to Sika for cross-selling. With the combined product range Sika can offer complete waterproofing systems and solu-tions to the customers.

The Hanson Group LLC has acquired Visuron Technolo-

gies, Inc. The Hanson Group LLC worked with Tom and Mar-cia Davis (previous owners of Visuron) for many years and rec-ognizes Visuron Technologies, Inc. to be an innovative leader

in the polyurea industry.Tom Davis was an outstanding visionary and a leading edge developer in Polyurea technol-ogy. His notable discoveries include patented high chemical resistant, toughened Poly-urea elastomers (WarriorTM),

patented Sprayed In Place Pipe Polyurea technologies (True-SealTM), Electrostatic Polyureas, and many more custom prod-ucts designed for fast cure, Zero VOC’s and high performance (PolyArmorTM and PolyProTM). The Hanson Group LLC will

now offer Visuron’s cutting-edge technologies and products. Complete transition will be done in the next several months.

Veni, vidi, viciStrange tales from the world of polyurea (anonymous)

ZOW 2010 in Italy cancelled

Comeback in 2011 with modified conception announced

Following careful consid-eration, the management

team of SURVEY Marketing & Consulting srl, Rimini/Italy, has decided to cancel this year’s “ZOW Salone Internazionale dei Componenti ed Accessori per l’Industria del Mobile”. ZOW founder Peter H. Meyer ex-plained: “The fact that last year’s

move from the particularly problematic trade fair location of Pordenone to Verona, which is in a much better location and features outstanding exhibition halls, happened to coincide with the global financial crisis resulted in criticism on the mar-ket.” ZOW Managing Director Romano Ugolini had the follow-

ing advice for them. “Given the current situation on the Italian furniture market, we would not expect the trade fair to be a suc-cess. Companies that don’t want to waste their money would be advised not to attend trade fairs this year in Italy.” Instead, it makes sense to invest in grow-ing foreign markets. ZOW is

announcing a comeback in 2011 with a new concept. The dis-pute with the ZOW replica fair “Sicam” in Pordenone on the grounds of copyright infringe-ments is set to continue at the court in Trieste.

Both equipment and system suppliers always stress the

importance of specialist train-ing for polyurea processors. In fact some system manufacturers actually insist on such training as a condition for using their systems.

The possibilities and the learn-ing factors are consistently underestimated by processors,

many of them still think their knowledge will come from „learning by doing“ or even worse – that the application process isn’t too complicated:• Pump the material into drums• Switch on the machine and

pre-heat• Place spray gun in position

and coat

However, good courses, led by very experienced trainers, teach a lot more than simply operat-ing the machine and the spray guns. In fact, participants will gain a totally different view of the whole technology and will learn about factors, which put the processor in a deci-sion maker position, with the ability to determine if a job can be done successfully or not, or

what has to be done to finish an application successfully. When you think about the amount of money companies invest in equipment, material and ac-cessories, it seems amazing not to invest money in a training course, because this is “too expensive“.

The following story is a very good example of how much

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time, effort, and money could have been saved with a training course:

Based on some internet research, construction company X is enthusiastic about the use of polyurea, and phones me for ad-vice on which processing equip-ment to buy. I try to work out, what exactly this company is planning to do in the future and where the main focus of activity will lie. Finally I know, that X wants to coat „everything“ – hmm – ok, so I recommend an hydraulically driven coat-ing machine with strong drum pumps and a 48 meter material hose. The spray gun will be a mechanical purge piston.

X follows my recommendation and now wants 1-days instruc-tion, whilst they are working on their first coating job. All my ef-forts to persuade them to attend a training course fail. So finally we do this 1-day-course, which doesn’t give enough time to

explain the whole technology, but in view of the fact that the project involves water proofing the roof of a public building (school), I decide that I had better be present to ensure the coating isn’t botched, ultimately leaving a leaky roof. There are two to three subsequent phone calls, during which I am assured that everything is „wonderful“ and going well.

After 3 months – it’s now the end of November – the proces-sor calls to inform me that he has an urgent floor coating project for a cheese dairy, but something is wrong with the spraying machine – the ISO isn’t coming out anymore. We can’t solve the problem over the phone, so I agree to go there the next day to troubleshoot. I arrive at the cheese dairy around 8:30 (am). It lies next to a farm in the middle of nowhere. It’s freezing cold (the temperature gauge on my car shows -6 °C), everything is covered with a

thick layer of white frost and I see the parked trailer carrying the spraying equipment and the drums containing the coating material.

The processor was pleased to see me and was able to answer a few of my immediate questions:

• Yes, the trailer with the equip-ment and material has been parked outside here for 5 days already (whilst the concrete floor was prepared).

• Yes, it’s been freezing cold for over a week, at night the tem-perature drops down to -18 °C.

• No, the trailer isn’t isolated or heated.

• No, the system hasn’t been flushed, they came straight here from their last job and put everything here just as it is.

I now try to explain the relation-ship between material prepara-tion, -storage, condensation, temperature, and humidity, and

in particular, their influence on the ISO-component. The proces-sor understands the relation-ship but still thinks that the strong heaters in the machine and heating the hose should be sufficient.

With him beside me, I check the temperature of the ISO drum which is -2 °C. Having seen the situation, it was quite clear to me, that a large part of the ISO component had hardened in the hose system, and a visual check showed a little crystallization in the liquid. I explained my assumption to the processor and he was flabbergasted – no one had ever told him that!

We decided to try to resolve everything at the site and to get the system working again. All available radiant heaters were collected from the nearby farm and used to heat up the drums and hoses. The hose contain-ing material was completely unrolled on a polystyrene sheet,

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Event Calendar Polyurea 2010

ZOW – further dates and countries:Organizer: SURVEY Marketing + ConsultingGmbH & Co. KGMittelstr. 50, 33602 Bielefeld, GermanyPhone: +49-521-96533-55Fax: +49-521-96533-66E-mail: [email protected]

ZOW Istanbul, Turkey 16th – 19th September 2010ZOW Moscow, Russia 22nd – 26th September 2010ZOW Madrid, Spain 28th – 30th September 2010

PDA Europe Board Meeting 2nd September, 2010Brussels, BelgiumOrganizer:Polyurea Development Association Europe, AISBL142 Avenue Jules Bordet, 1140 Brussels, BelgiumPhone: +32-2-761-1611Fax: +32-2-761-1699E-mail: [email protected]

SMM – Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology7th – 10th September 2010Hamburg Exhibition and Congress Center,GermanyOrganizer: Hamburg Exhibition and Congress GmbH, Messeplatz 1, 20357 Hamburg, GermanyPhone: +49-(0)40-3569-0Fax: +49-(0)40-3569-2203e-mail: [email protected]/SMM

IFAT –16th International Trade Fair for

Water, Sewage, Refuse, and Recycling

13th – 17th September 2010New Munich Trade Fair Centre, GermanyOrganizer: Messe München GmbHMessegelände, 81823 Munich, GermanyPhone: +49-(0)89-949113-58Fax: +49-(0)89-949113-59E-mail: [email protected]

InnoTrans – Int. Trade Fair for Transport

Technology – Innovative Components,

Vehicles, Systems

21st – 24th September 2010Messe Berlin, GermanyOrganizer: Messe Berlin GmbHMessedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, BerlinPhone: +49-(0)30-3038-0Fax: +49-(0)30-3038-2325E-mail: [email protected]

PDA Europe Applicator Spray Course

4th – 7th October, 2010Location: Renocon Ltd., Anchor Wharf, Yeo Street, Bow E3, UKOrganizer:Polyurea Development Association Europe, AISBL142 Avenue Jules Bordet, 1140 Brussels, BelgiumPhone: +32-2-761-1611Fax: +32-2-761-1699

E-mail: [email protected]

interbad – 22nd Int. trade fair for swimming

pools, pool and bath technology, saunas,

physiotherapy, and wellness

13th – 16th October 2010Messe Stuttgart, GermanyOrganizer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für dasBadewesen e.V. (DGfdB)Postfach 34 02 01, 45074 Essen, GermanyPhone: +49-(0)201-87969-0Fax: +49-(0)201-87969-20Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbHMessepiazza 1, 70629 Stuttgart, Germanywww.messe-stuttgart.de/interbad

PDA Europe Conference 2010

15th – 17th November 2010Sitges / Barcelona, SpainOrganizer: Polyurea Development AssociationEurope, AISBL142 Avenue Jules Bordet,1140 Brussels, BelgiumPhone: +32-2-761-1611Fax: +32-2-761-1699E-mail: [email protected]

denkmal 2010

European trade fair for Conservation,

Restoration, and Old Building Renovation

18th – 20th November 2010Messe Leipzig, GermanyOrganizer: Leipziger Messe GmbHMesse-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig, GermanyPhone: +49-(0)341-678-0Fax: +49-(0)341-678-8762E-mail: [email protected]

the spray gun removed and cleaned. All possible working parts were heated in some way or another. Heating of the hose was switched on and carefully increased up to 70 °C.

Inwardly I was thankful for the good fortune that company X had decided to buy a hydraulic drive machine, I switched on the hydraulic system and step by step, increased pressure up to a limit of 270 bar. An assistant, wearing a completely protective suit, held the end of the hose and pointed it into an empty

drum. Nothing happens, not even 270 bar is able to clear the hose. After releasing the pressure and switching the heater off, I dissemble the front end of the hose, the temperature sensor and the first 15 meter long hose kit. I have a spare tempera-ture sensor and a „Wip“ with me, which are installed before switching on the hose heater again and gradually activating the hydraulic system.

Eventually, at about 55 bar hy-draulic pressure (= 250 bar static pressure in the material hose)

the material starts to drip out slowly on the ISO side, crystal-lized pieces first, followed by a gel and finally material begins to flow under high pressure.Okay – stop the hydraulics, put one end of the hose into the ISO drum, and now start recircula-tion to bring the drum material to a good processing tempera-ture. All other preparation work is done at full blast alongside (stirring and recirculation of the polyamine component, permanent temperature control as well as the condition of the material and filters,…) – the job

can clearly be finished today. After about 7 hours we reach the necessary processing conditions and can start the project, which is successfully completed in 2.5 hours.

Looking at the time spent and my invoices for introduc-tory training then subsequent trouble shooting, X would have been better off if they’d at-tended a proper training course in advance.

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2010 Annual Conference

PDA Europe Metal Surface Preparation Course

Extended 4-hour advanced

course More details on surface evaluation

and preparation techniques supported by practical demonstrations

Must see for applicators new to the industry or those fine-tuning their techniques

When: 15 November, 14-18h

N E W !

WHEN: 15-17 November 2010 WHERE: Hotel Meliã - Sitges (Barcelona), Spain

H I G H L I G H T S

Case Studies and Presentations Latest developments and news of the polyurea industry,

in English and Spanish! When: 16 & 17 November

Table top exhibition Great opportunity to promote your company and

products to a wide audience, as well as network with European and international industry representatives.

When: 15, 16 & 17 November

Registration will be open shortly — check www.pda-europe.org for details or contact PDA Europe at [email protected] / +32 2 761 16 11

Introduction to Polyurea Course Physical properties of polyurea, testing

procedures, surface preparations, application procedures and techniques,

and advances in and types of equipment. When & Where: 15 November, 9-13h

Live demonstrations

During educational courses and conference

When: 15 & 16 November

SUBMIT A PAPER By presenting a paper at this conference, you provide your

organisation with invaluable industry visibility, gain recognition amongst your peers, and reinforce your expertise within the

POLYUREA community. Papers and case studies are invited from polyurea coating

professionals - from raw material suppliers to applicators (in English and/or Spanish).

Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2010 For more details and submission conditions, please visit our website.

THE SPANISH TOUCH... A half-day parallel session in Spanish will be organised, containing polyurea presentations and case studies! When: 16 November, 14-17h The educational courses trainers (Introduction to Polyurea and Surface Preparation) will be assisted by Spanish-speaking polyurea professionals!

JOIN US FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EUROPEAN POLYUREA EVENT

Building with sandwich construction elementsDipl.-Ing. Klaus Kottkamp, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg, Germany

History

Hardly any other construction element has developed into an inte-gral building system in the way that steel sandwich elements with PU insulation have. This development evolved over time, the main impetus coming from the ever increasing need for space in trade and industry.

During the ongoing industrialization at the end of the 19th cen-tury, the need for larger buildings became more and more evident. Architects planned buildings of solid construction with design characteristics comparable to those of the manor houses and villas which they used to draft. They resorted to known building styles and designs, as industrial architecture and planning were still unknown careers. With increasing industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century, simplifications were introduced into building structures and became standard. By using steel supporting structures, indus-trial prefabrication could be used. The next step were wall structures made from loadbearing steel structure, which just had to be filled on site with bricks.

The first attempts to replace this type of wall construction with prefabricated elements made from aluminium or steel trapezoidal profiles became apparent in the 1940s and 1950s. The pioneers were the military and aviation sectors. The wish to insulate the building envelopes was made at that time by arranging two trapezoidal sheets with internal thermal insulation.

The breakthrough came in 1960, when the insulating core was con-nected to the outer steel sheets to form a composite element. Thus the sandwich element was invented, which had the advantages of

providing integral thermal insulation, increasing the load-carrying capacity and be prefabrication in an industrial process at the same time. It is interesting to note that only German speaking countries use the term “sandwich elements”. The English version “Composite Panels” is a more striking term. Sandwich Elements as a System for Construction

Since the first double strip lines were commissioned in the 1960s, through to today, sandwich elements have been subject to constant development and a very large variety of them have been created. While in the early phase, surface textures were rather simple, today special elements are available for roofs and façades. The surface texture can be smooth, corrugated, trapezoidal, slightly profiled, or microprofiled. Fastening can be visible or integrated into the joint and thus concealed. The joint design can be adapted to different requirements, depending on the application and use of the building (Picture 1).Nowadays, the offer is not limited to elements for roofs and façades. A great range of flashings, such as parapet caps and corners can be produced in folded, bent, or curved design. Doors made from sandwich elements are also available. It is therefore possible to say that sandwich panels have developed into a complete construction system which gives planners and architects a wealth of possibilities for creating buildings and gives them design freedom.

German Energy Savings Ordinance (EnEV) 2009/2012

Of the building materials available on the market, polyurethane has the highest insulating efficiency. The insulation value of 50 mm of polyurethane is identical to that of 100 mm of cork or 760 mm of

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concrete stone or 1720 mm of brick. This means that PUR sandwich elements offer two great advantages. Firstly, compared to other build-ing materials, PUR sandwich elements are efficient aids in energy saving. Secondly, sandwich elements help to save on floor area (Picture 2).

Now, given that polyurethane sandwich elements are a highly efficient building system, let’s talk about the requirements of the energy savings ordinance (EnEV). The amendment to the EnEV came into effect on 1st October 2009. For the first time, it also applies to non-residential buildings and to existing buildings subject to refur-bishment, if the building envelope is changed by more than 10 % (Picture 3). In the case of non-residential buildings, a distinction is made, depending on the use of the building. It takes into account both, buildings with an inside temperature of between 12 °C and 19 °C and those with an inside temperature of more than 19 °C. For both types, the EnEV 2009 determines limit values for heat transfer coefficients u=W/m²K for all possible building elements such as the roof, façade, doors, windows, etc. Any building element can be used, which achieve the required u-value limits or if its energy efficiency can be proved by using a reference building as an example (Picture 4).

When comparing the limit values specified in EnEV 2009 and the insulation values of sandwich elements available on the market, it becomes evident that all producers offer elements which comply with these requirements without any problem. However, it is also true that the thickness of the insulation material has increased compared with the requirements of previous years. The Energy / Energies Heat Act that came into force on 1st January 2010, which requires that if renewable energy sources are not being used, the limit values provided for in EnEV 2009 must be reduced by a further 15%. For this reason, the insulation thickness of the elements used has been further increased. As all the producers active in the market offer element thicknesses of up to 200 mm or more, these additional

requirements do not present a problem for sandwich elements either. Indeed even after the planned EnEV 2012 is introduced, the present production plants will still easily be able to comply with the new limit values for insulation materials.

Fire Protection Requirements

If we consider the fire protection requirements, we see that for the different building types, different conditions of use are applicable. In the case of multi-storey buildings, the fire protection require-ments depend on the height of the building, i.e., whether it is low, medium, or tall in height. The requirements are determined by the regional building regulations independent of the ground area of the buildings.

The situation is quite different when looking at commercial and industrial buildings. Here, for both regional building regulations and the Performance of Buildings directive, the planned useful area is decisive in fire protection requirements. Distinction is made between a building which is < 2500 m² and a building which has fire com-partments > 2500 m².

In addition to complying with the fire protection requirements de-scribed above, sandwich elements are also subject to classification in terms of fire protection. Where building components used to be clas-sified in accordance with DIN 4102, today they are subject to DIN EN 13501. They are classified in terms of fire protection requirements according to the results of the so-called single-burning item test (SBI-Test), which has replaced the pilot flame test and the vertical shaft fire test which were laid down in DIN 4102 (Picture 5). As a result, a sandwich element with a mineral wool core can achieve class A2. Although neither the steel cover sheets nor the mineral wool core are combustible, the elements cannot achieve A1 classification, as

Reference building

Length: 60 mW idth: 20 m

Hei

ght:

10 m

P ermis s ible annual primary energy cons umption Q´p: Qp/ V e

P ermis s ible trans mis s ion heat los s H´t: Ht / A

F ramework conditions :

S imple building, dimens ions as shown

No windows

4 doors including 4 pers onnel doors on longitudinal s ides (east/west)

5% of roof area covered with s moke heat extractors

Indoor room temperature 12-19°C

G ross cubic content approx. 12,000 m³G ross floor area approx. 1,200 m²

Other parameters include U values for the various components . To enable an initial calculation to be made, E nE V provides for U values for the reference building.

F açade: 0.35 W/m²K

R oof: 0.35 W/m²K

F loor: 0.35 W/m²K

S moke heat extractor: 1.9 W/m²K

Door s ys tem: 1.9 W/m²K

P ersonnel doors : 2.9 W/m²K

Reference building in line with German Energy Savings Ordinance (EnEV)

Determine building dataB alance for reference building

B alance for buildingto be cons tructed

F ramework conditions including

• R oom temperature

• Dimensions

• S hare of total s urface of wall, ceiling elements etc.

• Orientation of building

• E s tablis hed building data s erve as a bas is

• U values for reference building to be us ed for components (E nE Vappendix table 1)

• C alculation gives the values for permis s ible annual primary energy cons umption and permis s ible trans ition heat los s

T he s ame calculation is us ed, with the values of products us ed

If the res ults fall below thos e for the reference building, the E nE Vrequirements are deemed to be complied with

Only the s implified calculation method and the s ingle zone model are applied (s ame conditions across the building)

E nE V 2009 provides for a detailed balance and for building zones where different requirements apply, depending on the s ection of the building.

Fire classification of construction products and building elements

• DIN E N 13501

•A1 non-flammable

•A2 non-flammable (corres ponds to B and calorific value P C S < 3.0 Mj/kg)

•B low flammability (corres ponds approximately to B 1 according to DIN 4102)

•C low flammability (corres ponds approximately to B 2 according to DIN 4102)

•D normally flammable

•E normally flammable

•F inflammable (corres ponds approximately to B 3 according to DIN 4102)

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glue that is needed for them has a calorific value of PCS. Sandwich elements with a foamed insulating core (PUR or PIR) are generally classified as class B. This corresponds to class B1 as laid down in DIN 4102. For further classification, the smoke growth rate in categories S1 – S3 and the flaming droplets in categories d0 – d2 are used. For German producers you will find elements which achieve class B, S1, d0, and which meet all the requirements for the building envelope, unless there are special requirements regarding the fire protection of the building (Picture 6).

In DIN EN 13501, the classification of fire protection has remained unchanged with respect to time intervals but the new standards mention the conditions of use of classified elements. The load-bearing capacity (R – in the case of fire walls), insulation (I), and space enclosing properties (E) are also mentioned in the approval concerned (such as EI30 –EI120).

To sum up, it can be said that the EN standard and the approvals based on this standard give planners detailed information about which elements are the optimum solution for their specific project.

Soundproofing Requirements

When considering soundproofing requirements, it is helpful to look separately at reflected, transmitted, and absorbed sound energy. Sandwich elements with a foam core generally have an airborne sound insulation index of Rw = 25 dB auf. This sound insulation index is to a large extent independent of the actual thickness of the element. This soundproofing value is sufficient for the needs of most commercial and industrial buildings and many multi-storey build-ings.

In the case of more stringent soundproofing requirements, it is recommended that sandwich elements with a mineral wool insula-tion core are used. Due to their higher density, their airborne sound insulation index is Rw = 33 dB.

Surface Coatings

When looking at surface coatings, a distinction is made between metallic coatings, organic coatings, or combinations of both systems. Metallic coatings are generally hot-dip galvanized coatings or consist of various alloys such as zinc-aluminium or zinc-magnesium. In the case of organic coatings is important to be aware that most different coatings can be used for the elements. The different coating materials are available in various qualities, such as polyester (SP), polyurethane (PUR), high-durable polymers (HDP), and polyvinyl fluoride (PVDF). The coating quality determines the corrosion protection classifica-tion of the element. Furthermore, the recommended field of ap-plication of the elements is defined according to the location of the object (such as an industrial or maritime environment). The higher the quality level, the better the properties of the surface coating in terms of gloss grade, fading and chalking (e.g. PVDF).

In recent years, the colour and design of surfaces have developed enormously. Where just a few years ago coatings were only available in a limited range of RAL colour shades, producers are today able to meet almost any requirement. Some producers have even developed matching colour systems to allow architects and planners to design appealing façades to give them an exceptional appearance (Pic-ture 7). A range of different surface textures is also available, such as metallic surfaces and surfaces with zinc spangle, wrinkle, texture or other special effects. At the building owner’s request any of these sur-face coatings can be provided with an additional layer which enables dirt such as graffiti to be removed with a damp cloth (Picture 8).

Architectural Design

To summarize, it can be stated that sandwich elements with a foamed insulation core provide a mature and ingenious building system with which the architect can meet all design requirements, independent of the form and the use of the building (Picture 9).

• S moke propagation S MOG R A (smog growth rate) m²/s ²

•S 1 30 m²/s² < T S P 600s < 50 m²/s²

•S 2 180 m²/s² < T S P 600s < 200 m²/s ²

•S 3 > S 2 or without tes ting

•F laming droplets /particles (tes t duration 600 s econds)

•d0 no flaming droplets during tes t period

•d1 no flaming droplets in excess of 10 seconds

•d2 flaming droplets in exces s of 10 s econds

Fire classification of construction products and building elements

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Straight, bent, or curved façades are all possible, as can be seen by the example of the parapet design of Neue Messe in Munich, Ger-many or the Skidome in Dubai, U.A.E..

Many solutions are available for multi-storey buildings, independent of whether they are regular administrative buildings or buildings intended to be representative in character. Even commercial and industrial buildings can be easily designed with state-of-the-art technology, if the functionality of the building is of essence. If the building owner, the planner, or the architect require even more, versatile design options are to hand. By nesting parts of the building or structuring the façade surfaces by including e.g., doors, ventila-tion elements, and rows of windows, additional architectural accents can be created (Picture 10). Such a design can even be underlined by the structure, appearance, and colour of the surface. Thus a building can be harmoniously integrated into an area which consists of old residential properties. Many awards such as the European award for steel constructions (ECCS) or the Chinese building award (Luban) testify to the fact that experts can again and again be convinced by architecturally appealing buildings made using sandwich elements (Picture 11).

Whatever the future requirements of building owners, planners, or architects may be, the producers of sandwich elements can call on a wide spectrum of technology, architecture, and design in order to meet their requirements.

Author: Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Kottkamp, born 1956, studied from 1977-1982 at the FH Bochum. 1989 he started to work for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG and since 2004 Klaus Kottkamp is Marketing Manager Construction.

Editors Note: This presentation was given at the conference “PUR in Constructions“ organised

by SKZ, Wurzburg, Germany on 27th of April, 2010.

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Release agent-free production of PU parts

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Walter Michaeli, Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Pauling, Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Grönlund, Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University (IKV) Aachen, Germany, Dr. Klaus Vissing, Fraunhofer IFAM, Bremen, Germany

Part 1

Introduction

For the production of polyurethane parts the use of non-permanent release agents is still inevitable. This is necessary to decrease the reac-tivity of the PU with the mould surface. The release agent ensures an adequate surface quality of the part, an undisturbed production and a long mould life.

Release agents are usually delivered in the form of dilutions or disper-sions which are applied onto the mould surface. These agents consist of releasing substances and a carrier medium mostly an organic sol-vent or water. These agents usually release the part from the mould surface in a combination of a cohesive and an adhesive break [1].

The use of non-permanent release agents has to be regarded critically in the production of PU parts economically as well as ecologically (e.g. emission of solvents). Besides the cost for the release agent the time needed for spraying the agent into the cavity and evaporation of the solvent means a lengthening of the cycle time which influenc-es the economic efficiency of the production process significantly.

Furthermore residua of the agent remain on the part surface after the demoulding. This makes it necessary to labour-intensively and therefore cost-intensively clean the part to guarantee problem-free following production steps such as gluing, painting, laminating, or metalizing. Likewise residua of the agent along with by-products of the PU-reaction remain on the cavity surface (Fig. 1). This causes an uneven layer on the cavity surface which decreases the quality of the part surface. The cleaning of the cavity surfaces has to be done regu-larly with enormous temporal and financial effort. For this purpose the moulds are heated to be able to wipe out the melted remains of the release agents. Alternatively the remains are embrittled using dry ice and removed in a following blasting process. A third way to clean the cavity is to dismantle the mould and clean it chemically.

Finally the inevitable application of the release agent onto the cavity at regular intervals means an exposure of the worker to the spray which makes it necessary to install employment protection devices such as exhaust systems and respirator masks.

An innovative idea to enable the demoulding of PU parts is to apply a permanent plasma polymeric release coating onto the mould cavity [2]. The resistance of these coatings against abrasive forces is to be considered minor compared to the metallic mould surfaces.

Aim of the project

Therefore, the aim of the presented project is to develop a permanent plasma polymeric mould coating with high durability to assure a problem-free demoulding of PU parts without the additional use of non-permanent release agents. To achieve this, the Institute of Plas-tics Processing at RWTH Aachen University (IKV), Germany, cooper-

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Object of investigation of this project is a permanent plasma-induced coating that was developed by the IFAM in preliminary tests. It is designed as a gradient layer to realize a smooth crossover from an adhesive layer towards a releasing layer. These layers are produced using a plasma polymerization process with abundance of the precur-sor to avoid the fragmentation of the precursor - mostly oxygen and hexamethyl disiloxane (HMDSO) - and preserve its structure in the coating [3]. Accordingly this process is called structure preserving plasma polymerization. Discrete group of molecules such as the Si-O-Si groups as well as some methyl groups of the HMDSO molecules are preserved and incorporated into the coating. In detail such a release coating consists of highly crosslinked siloxane-compounds for the mechanical strength of the coating and a high density of chemically repellent methyl groups towards the PU-sided surface for excellent release properties (Fig. 2).

Figure 3 is a drawing of the design of the gradient layer. The number of methyl groups in the coating decreases towards the cavity surface, the crosslinking of the Si-O-Si framework increases respectively. The organic character of the coating abates.

The higher degree of crosslinking is achieved using a higher power of the plasma and an additional oxygen feeding. These layers with higher crosslinking provide corrosion protection and act as an adhe-sion promoter to the cavity surface. These coatings are three-dimen-sionally crosslinked and therefore chemically and thermally exceed-

ingly resistant. The coating process takes place at room temperature which means no thermal impact on the mould. As shown in figure 4 the coatings resist temperatures up to 350 °C, can be cleaned with solvents such as benzine and isopropanol. Because of the very thin coating thickness of less than 1 µm they can be used for cavities with very fine surface structures such as grains etc.

However, especially with PU the releasing properties of the coating decrease rapidly dependent on the PU system in use. After about 300 demouldings latest the coating has to be removed and the mould has to be coated once more in the plasma reactor. Of course these interruptions of the production are not acceptable for an industrial series production. This is why this coating process has to be devel-oped with regard to enduring release properties and high mechanical resistance for a long mould life.

Furthermore it is the aim of this project to identify gentle cleaning methods to remove soiling from the cavity without damaging the release coating. Finally a method has to be developed to repair any local damages of the coating in a quick and easy way during the pro-duction without dismantling the mould for a complete recoating.

Approach

The approach to realize the development of this permanent plasma-induced release coating is subdivided into the following steps:

Mould designMeanwhile an experimental mould was designed and built in order to analyze on the basis of moulding experiments with different types of PU the failure mechanism which leads to the rapid decrease of the releasing properties of the coating. As the focus for possible applications in this project lies on the production of class-A-surface parts such as spray skins and cast skins for the vehicle interior, the experimental part is designed as a skin of 1 mm thickness, measuring 220 x 360 mm² with a film gate on the front side (Fig. 5).

In order to achieve a homogenous reaction of the PU for a homoge-nous adhesion of the skin towards the cavity surface special attention has been given to the temperature control of the mould. The layout of the cooling system was assisted using computational simulation. Furthermore the surface temperature of the mould will be monitored with an infrared camera system.

Cavity inserts can be replaced to take samples of the coating. These samples are examined to analyze the abrasion and soiling of the coating in the course of the experiments. Furthermore the modular

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Operating temperature range: up to 350 °C

Thickness: ~ 0.3 µm

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design of the mould allows for the assembly of structured mould in-serts to analyze the influence of these structures on the demoulding.

A sensor system measures the demoulding forces. An increasing demoulding force in the course of the experiments means a decrease of the release properties of the coating. This has to be correlated with the results of the analysis of the abrasion and soiling of the coating dependent on the process parameters and the different PU systems used.

To measure the demoulding forces three cone shaped inserts with a diameter of 30 mm at the side of the cavity are installed in the mould. After the injection of the PU and the following curing of the part but before opening the mould, these inserts are drawn back from the part using an electrically powered linear motor. A highly sensitive piezoelectric force transducer measures the demoulding force (Fig. 6).

The cone shaped design of the insert makes sure that air gets to the part instantaneously and thus prevents measuring errors due to a possible vacuum between the surface of the insert and the part.

Moulding experimentsBased on a statistical design of experiments the influence of differ-ent coating parameters during the plasma polymerization process on the release properties of the coating will be analyzed using different PU systems. For a better understanding the influence of the chem-istry of the different PU systems on the releasing properties of the coating and the adhesive properties of the part respectively are to be investigated. For the moulding experiments a high pressure reaction injection moulding machine Baseline 130 FR from Hennecke GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany, will be used in combination with a MX12 mixing head.

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