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Connections, Solutions Take Center Stage at Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show

The Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show will feature more than 165 exhibitors, 39 Exhibitor Showcases, and a series of educational sessions focusing on pressing issues that manufacturers are facing both inside and outside their fence lines.
Jenny Gaines of SOCMA
Jenny Gaines
February 15, 2022
With business booming and companies reaching capacity limits, customers and suppliers throughout the specialty chemical value chain are looking to make business-critical connections in 2022. SOCMA offers that opportunity and more at the Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show, which will be held February 28-March 2, at the Omni in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Performance Elastomers from Renewable Resources

Elastomers produced with a new renewable monomer are helping create new market value while offering sustainability benefits.
Shinya Oshita Yoshikazu Ueno Yosuke Uehara Daisuke Konishi Hiromitsu Sasaki
February 14, 2022

Elastomer products are commonly produced using isoprene, butadiene, and styrene. A new renewable monomer has been used to develop unique polymers, such as liquid farnesene rubber (LFR) and a proprietary bio-based styrenic elastomer.


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3M to Expand Operations in Tennessee

The additional investments and jobs will help increase capacity and reduce manufacturing cycle time.
February 14, 2022

3M is investing approximately $470 million and adding around 600 new jobs by 2025 at its plant in Clinton, Tenn.


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Electric Vehicle Market Advances Generate Adhesive Technology Innovations

As the electric vehicle market evolves and develops, adhesive manufacturers create new technologies to meet these needs.
Dave Czaplewski Manny Dias Giorgio Zaffaroni Laurie Gibbons
February 11, 2022
The use of adhesives in electric vehicles (EVs) is even more widespread than in conventional automobiles. In both types of vehicles, adhesives offer many advantages, including ease of use compared to welding, environmental resistance, sealing, distributing stress, and joining dissimilar materials.
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Electronics Manufacturing Industry Reconnects at IPC APEX EXPO 2022

The event featured a technical conference, professional development courses, standards development committee meetings, and a show floor that included 282 exhibitors.
February 10, 2022

Organizers of IPC APEX EXPO 2022 report that the event provided the education and networking connections that helped 3,647 visitors address today’s business challenges and prepare for their factories of the future.


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