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Petra Cullmann, Executive Director Messe Düsseldorf, Interview with Baspar Magazine
Baspar / Iranpolymer K exhibition is being held for the 70th year now. How did it feel to hold this exhibition after a long pandemic? Petra Cullmann: K 2022 comes at precisely the right point in time to provide the…
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Scientists Create Extremely Strong Stretchable Electrode for Wearable Devices
Baspar/Iranpolymer Professor Runwei Li’s group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) has devised a nano-liquid-metal-based extremely powerful stretchable electrode (NHSE) for a variety of electronic skin (e-skin) applications, including human healthcare monitoring and…
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New Light-Driven Catalysts Facilitate Manufacturing Processes
Baspar/Iranpolymer Chemical reactions powered by light are extremely helpful to chemists who are developing new methods to make pharmaceuticals and other beneficial compounds. Exploiting this light energy necessitates photoredox catalysts, which can capture light and convey the energy to a…
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Color-Stable Polyamide Shines in Electromobility Applications
IRANPOLYMER/ BASPAR The new flame-retardant PA66 is colored bright orange, a hue in high demand in the auto industry. High-voltage components are usually exposed to significant and repetitive temperature fluctuations, which normally lead to strong discoloration in conventional polyamides (PAs).…
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Turkey: Wind turbine construction increases by 7 percent
Baspar / Iranpolymer The share of renewable energy sources in Turkey’s energy mix is expected to increase by 5 percentage points to 40 percent this year. At just over 10,000 MW, wind energy accounts for around a tenth of the…
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Russia sanctions hit Plastic Industry with varying degrees of severity
Baspar / Iranpolymer Good news has been in short supply since Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began. After the atrocities in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, the EU has now decided on further sanctions against the aggressor. The extent…
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Composites: Further price increases for resins towards the end of the year
Baspar / Iranpolymer The resin producers are turning the price screw every month. Polynt (Italy) wants to make unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins more expensive at the turn of the year due to higher costs for energy and CO2…
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Borealis buys minority stake in Bockatech
Baspar / Iranpolymer For an unspecified amount, the polyolefin group Borealis (Vienna / Austria) bought a minority stake in Bockatech (Wyton / Great Britain), a technology provider for the production of sustainable packaging solutions. The investment is intended to deepen…
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South Korea: The explosion in Yeosu killed three people
Baspar / Iranpolymer An explosion at the South Korean chemical and petrochemical site in Yeosu killed at least three people. The incident occurred on December 13, 2021, shortly after midnight, while welding work on the pipelines of a naphtha tank. The…
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