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Center for the Polyurethanes Industry Announces Innovation Award Finalists

Since its inception in 2005, the Polyurethane Innovation Award has highlighted the role that innovation plays in the polyurethanes industry.

August 19, 2015

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry recently announced the finalists for the 2015 Polyurethane Innovation Award.

Dow Automotive Collaborates with Clemson Students to Support Lightweighting Goals

August 5, 2015

Dow Automotive Systems reportedly is again collaborating with students at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

2015 ASI Top 25: Leading Worldwide Manufacturers of Adhesives and Sealants

August 3, 2015

This issue of Adhesives & Sealants Industry magazine brings the ASI Top 25, our exclusive ranking of the top 25 worldwide manufacturers of adhesives and sealants.

Editor's Memo: ASI Top 25

Teresa McPherson

August 3, 2015

Welcome to the annual ASI Top 25 issue! The ASI Top 25 ranks the leading worldwide manufacturers of adhesives and sealants by revenue to provide readers with an overview of the top players in the industry.

2015 Adhesives and Sealants Industry Distributor Roundtable

What benefits can distributors of raw materials/chemicals offer for adhesives and sealants manufacturers?

Susan Sutton

July 1, 2015

Manufacturers of adhesives and sealants face an increasingly complicated world, where innovation is essential to survival and ever-expanding regulations threaten their profitability (and sanity!).

Advancing Adhesives: Non-Toxic Solvents

Can "green" solvents be on a par with their conventional toxic counterparts?

July 1, 2015

The average person comes into contact with solvents - toxic substances that dissolve other substances - thousands of times each day without even thinking about them.

Handle with Care: Personnel Protection in the Adhesives and Sealants Industry

The personal protective equipment industry is staying ahead of worker safety and comfort with innovative new tools.

Srin Kuchibotla

July 1, 2015

Compliance in a chemical environment not only requires selecting the right personal protective equipment (PPE) for a variety of chemicals, but also must ensure that workers wear the equipment.

Silane and Catalyst Effects on Silylated Polymer Elastomers

The choice of crosslinking silanes and curing catalysts has a significant impact on the properties of silyl polymer-based formulations.

Christopher Ross

July 1, 2015

Silane-modified organic polymers have been around for more than 40 years, and have proliferated in the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) industry over the past 20 years.

How Can Structural Adhesives Help Automakers Tackle a Weighty Issue?

A materials supplier explores how structural adhesives can help automakers to achieve their lightweighting goals.

Danielle Hunter

July 1, 2015

Automakers' search for lighter materials and more fuel-efficient vehicles is a well-covered topic. But there are more layers to the story than the headlines suggest.

Novel Amorphous Polyolefins for Adhesive Applications

A new technology has been developed to produce innovative olefin polymers with a broad robust operating window for hot-melt adhesives applications.

P. Rajesh Raja, Ph.D.

July 1, 2015

Polyolefin polymers have been an important part of daily life for variety of applications since the reported lab-scale process by Carothers in the 1930s1 and commercial process introduction by ICI in the 1940s.