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Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) and DSM announced their alliance for Automotive Developments in India. DSM and ARAI hold leading positions in material sciences and automotive research respectively, allowing for both the organizations to synergize their strengths in supporting the automotive industry in India. This alliance will provide sustainable solutions for the automotive industry through the shared knowledge of both companies in understanding industry requirements and their interaction with applications and materials.
DSM Engineering Plastics is the global leader in various segments in the automotive, electronics and electrical, and general industries through its engineering plastics portfolio. In India, it produces and sells Stanyl® high heat polyamides (PA46), Akulon® 6 and 66 polyamides, Arnitel®, and Arnite® PBT and PET polyesters.
ARAI is a co-operative industrial research association established by the automotive industry and Ministry of Industries, Government of India. ARAI provides technical expertise in R&D, testing, certification, homologation and framing of vehicle regulations. In this way, ARAI has been playing a crucial role in assuring safe, less polluting and more efficient vehicles to the Indian market. ARAI is well equipped with state-of-art infrastructural facilities and highly qualified manpower.
DSM and ARAI share common objectives. "DSM plays a leading part in addressing some of the world's most pressing issues such as climate change and energy consumption. Our knowledge of the use of our materials in automotive applications and vast experience in integrating parts with engineering plastics has directly contributed in making components lighter - hence lower fuel consumption and reduced pollution. We will bring in our material science and application expertise to this alliance." - Roelof Westerbeek, President, DSM Engineering Plastics said.
Mr. Srikant Marathe, Director, ARAI, said - "ARAI will contribute through its expertise in automotive testing equipments, systems knowledge, and standards for four, three and two wheelers. For ARAI, vehicle weight reduction is a key focus area to address fuel consumption and emission concerns. This alliance will be extremely useful to achieve this objective.
This alliance will also go a long way in bringing in the advantages of engineering plastics in areas that were so far the domain of metals."
DSM Engineering Plastics in profile
DSM Engineering Plastics is one of the world's leading suppliers of quality engineering thermoplastics providing customer value through sustainable solutions that reflect the DSM People, Planet and Profit strategy. DSM Engineering Plastics delivers innovative opportunities for customers who design or produce electrical applications, electronic equipment, cars, barrier packaging films as well as many mechanical and extrusion applications. These markets are served with a broad portfolio of high performance materials including Akulon® and Novamid® 6 and 66 polyamides, Arnitel® TPC, Arnite® PBT and PET polyesters, Yparex® extrudable adhesive resins, and Stanyl® high heat 46 polyamides. Most recently, DSM Engineering Plastics has introduced the first new polymer of the 21st century: Stanyl® ForTii™ and has expanded her portfolio with two bio-based, high performance engineering plastics, EcoPaXX™ and Arnitel Eco. DSM Engineering Plastics had sales in 2009 of EUR 648 million and employs some 1600 people worldwide More on: www.dsmep.com.
DSM - the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences Company in profile
Royal DSM N.V. creates solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance. Its end markets include human and animal nutrition and health, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings and paint, electrical and electronics, life protection and housing. DSM manages its business with a focus on the triple bottom line of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, which it pursues simultaneously and in parallel. DSM has annual net sales of about € 8 billion and employs some 22,700 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands, with locations on five continents. DSM is listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
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GE Healthcare, a global leader in medical technology, has selected SABIC Innovative Plastics Valox* resin for the housing and Xylex* resin for the storage bins of its new Optima XR220amx1 mobile x-ray machine to meet the increasing demands being placed on medical equipment. These high-performance resins helped GE Healthcare address toughening requirements for enhanced patient safety and outcomes, more-efficient care delivery and cost-effectiveness with this innovative device, which brings diagnostic radiology to the patient's bedside. SABIC Innovative Plastics offers a broad and growing portfolio of healthcare materials that provide solutions to changing regulatory, design and performance requirements facing its customers in the medical equipment sector.
"Working with SABIC Innovative Plastics on this high-visibility project has been a great success for our customers - and ultimately their patients," said Guillermo Sander, global marketing manager, Mobile DXR, GE Healthcare. "Using Valox and Xylex resins, we created a portable, easy-to-clean and attractive 'radiographic room on wheels'. The wide portfolio of resins and extensive application development services provided by SABIC Innovative Plastics helped us optimize the design and improve the performance of this next-generation diagnostic device."
"SABIC Innovative Plastics is increasingly focused on helping healthcare OEMs worldwide diversify their device offerings with more advanced material technologies," said Tom O'Brien, global products marketing director, Healthcare, SABIC Innovative Plastics. "We're proud of our more than 15 year close collaboration with GE Healthcare, which has targeted today's most critical healthcare issues. For this new x-ray device, our materials provide light weight, chemical resistance, and durability.
Materials target top healthcare trends
GE Healthcare chose Valox V3900WX resin, a high-impact polyester/polycarbonate (PC) blend, to design for healthcare industry requirements for increased safety of patients and improved cost control. Valox resin provides the exceptional chemical resistance of polyester to withstand stronger disinfectants being adopted to combat hospital-borne infections. For portable equipment such as the GE Healthcare device, it offers the high impact resistance and dimensional stability of PC to withstand bumps and bangs during transport within the hospital. This flame-retardant (FR), ultraviolet (UV)-stabilized resin offers outstanding aesthetics and provides molded-in color as a cost-effective alternative to traditional painted metal. It also delivers enhanced processability needed for molding large, high-quality, precision parts.
Valox resin offers significantly greater design freedom than metal to create new ergonomic designs. Broad molded-in color capability allowed GE Healthcare to achieve a customized bright white color without the cost and environmental impact of secondary painting. Inherent color also avoids the problem of paint scratches and makes the parts easier to clean.
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Valox V3900WX resin is an Underwriters Laboratories (UL) global grade (GG) with a UL746C F1 all-color rating. The GG designation provides enhanced flexibility for global customers by allowing programs to move from one region of the world to another without the cost and complexity of material re-qualification. Its FR package provides a UL 94 V0 rating down to 1.5 mm wall thickness and a 5VA rating down to 3.0 mm wall thickness.
The Xylex X7519HP resin is a transparent blend of PC and amorphous polyester. Compared to PC alone, the addition of polyester provides enhanced chemical resistance, supporting efforts to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Polyester also enhances the resin's stress crack resistance and permits lower processing temperatures. High impact resistance and glasslike transparency make Xylex resin ideal for storage containers. Like the Valox resin, this material features molded-in color.
The SABIC Innovative Plastics healthcare advantage
SABIC Innovative Plastics offers a proactive healthcare product policy that covers more than 50 medical-grade materials and provides regulatory listings and pre-assessed biocompatibility to save manufacturers time and expense when developing a new product. SABIC Innovative Plastics offers amongst the broadest ranges of amorphous and crystalline materials for the healthcare industry. Materials included under the SABIC Innovative Plastics' policy are covered by a United States Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Drug or Device Master File and are subject to formula lock and a stringent change management process. Complementing its portfolio and healthcare policy, the company delivers knowledge and expertise that underscore its ongoing commitment to the market. SABIC Innovative Plastics continues to invest in and expand its portfolio of high-performance products to meet the latest requirements and stay ahead of important regulatory, scientific and consumer trends.
For further information on SABIC Innovative Plastics' products for the healthcare sector, view website: www.sabic-ip.com For technical product inquiries, view website: www.sabic-ip.com/prtechinquiry.
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Hella, a leading Tier 1 auto lighting supplier, has selected SABIC Innovative Plastics' Lexan* XHT resins to create a metallized headlamp bezel and a clear, ice blue-tinted bezel for two major European car manufacturers. The new high heat polycarbonate (PC) copolymers perform brilliantly in these high-heat headlamp applications, delivering outstanding thermal and color stability, excellent metallization performance and high gloss. Lexan XHT copolymers also provide easy processing and greater design flexibility, enabling Hella to create distinctive lighting and directly meet the need for ultra-high-performance materials to create colored/transparent and metallized headlamp bezels, as well as other cosmetic parts. SABIC Innovative Plastics' advanced materials technologies for the automotive industry continue to break new ground, helping OEMs and Tiers meet customer demands for exciting style and next-generation performance.
"Temperatures in automotive lighting applications keep climbing and many traditional materials simply can't handle the heat," said Hella company spokesman Dr. Markus Richter. "SABIC Innovative Plastics' Lexan XHT resins are a clear solution. They are ideal for bezels, reflectors and other cosmetic parts that must maintain their appearance and stability under harsh, high-temperature conditions and give us the choice of transparency for tinted components or direct metallization for a highly reflective look. In either case, the new Lexan XHT technology is essential to our success in creating new lighting designs.
"We have made a strategic investment in ultra-high-performance materials such as Lexan XHT copolymers in anticipation of increasing automotive application demands," said Jim Wilson, global product marketing director, SABIC Innovative Plastics. "These materials have thrown open the door to new lighting designs while reducing system costs through enhanced processing and higher quality vs. competitive products. Our collaboration with Hella is driving design innovation to new levels to meet the demands of today's savvy consumers."
Cool elegance under high-heat conditions
Lexan XHT copolymers provide dimensional stability under the high temperature demands of today's forward lighting designs and high-intensity halogen, xenon and light emitting diode (LED) bulbs. Compared to traditional PC and other materials, Lexan XHT copolymers can handle continuous use in temperatures over 170C in metallized applications.
These new transparent resins can be custom tinted for sophisticated looks, such as Hella's ice-blue transparent bezel, and retain their color stability over the lifetime of the vehicle.
Or, they can be metallized for a high-gloss, high-reflective appearance. Because of their excellent polymer-metal adhesion performance, Lexan XHT resins can be direct-metallized, avoiding the need for a coating application on the part. They have excellent resistance to humidity and deliver a high-quality metallized surface finish without bubbles or blisters. Lexan XHT materials also provide easy processing, including high flow for thin-wall parts. These copolymers can be dropped into existing PC molding tools with only minor modifications.
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