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Many NACD members rely heavily on railroads to ensure the timely shipment of products used in nearly every industry in the United States. NACD says the railroads’ use of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) in recent years has led to a significant decline in service and an insufficient workforce.

Atlas Copco is constructing an Electronics Competence Center at its Scheugenpflug GmbH headquarters in Neustadt an der Donau, Germany, to handle the technologies involved in electronics manufacturing. By 2024, the company says it will have three-times more space at the location.

He takes over the global responsibility for the technology area, and with it, the strategic focus on products, their applications, and the process technology necessary for them. The group says a future expansion of the laboratory infrastructure in China and the United States is part of the newly created position.

In the first step, a new silicone coater will be installed at the Pulaski, New York, site in mid-2023. The Felix Schoeller Group says this will enable the company to supply the North American market with domestically produced siliconized papers and films.

A new, multifunctional polymer additive for powder coating formulations makes the formulation easier to disperse during extrusion by promoting pigment wetting and effectively reducing melt viscosity.

This expansion of Henkel’s existing site brings a new 10,000-square-foot production area for UV-curable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA), helping the company provide more sustainable and innovative PSA solutions to the tape, label, medical, and graphics films markets.

The new CFO will oversee finance, accounting, treasury, information technology, and business intelligence for the enterprise, including providing guidance to, and ensuring alignment between, FLEXcon’s executive leadership team, board members, and family shareholders.

Manufacturers are beginning to appreciate how much mixing nozzles cost their operations. Accounting for both purged and retained adhesive volumes, conventional helical and square mixers waste as much as 20 mL of adhesive with every nozzle

CDP uses a detailed and independent methodology to assess these companies, allocating a score of A to D, based on the comprehensiveness of disclosure, awareness, and management of environmental risks, and demonstration of best practices associated with environmental leadership, such as setting ambitious and meaningful targets.