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sustainability

Hexion Joins United Nations Global Compact

The UN Global Compact challenges companies to conduct business responsibly by aligning their operations and strategies with principles pertaining to human rights, labor, environmental practices, and anti-corruption.
Hexion Inc. recently announced that it has joined the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative.
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Strategic Solutions

Assembly with Adhesives

Three key steps must be undertaken when considering the use of adhesives in assembly operations.
George Ritter
George W. Ritter, Ph.D.

When manufacturers are looking to use adhesives in an assembly operation, three steps must enter into the decision process: suitability, compatibility, and capability.


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charity

MAPEI Donates to Haiti Relief Efforts

MAPEI made a donation to the Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund to help the country recover from damage caused by several natural disasters.
MAPEI Corp. and MAPEI Caribe Inc. have jointly donated $5,000 to the recovery effort in Haiti.
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LCY

Optimizing Hydrogenated Styrenic Block Copolymers for Adhesives and Sealants

Highly compatible with additives, specialty hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers enable product and process optimization for adhesives, sealants, and coatings formulators.
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Wayne Sheu
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Bear Wang

Hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers (HSBCs) are suitable for elastomeric adhesive applications. They are used in hot-melt adhesives (HMAs) and solvent-based adhesives, as well as in plastics modification for consumer and industrial applications


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Bostik’s Born2Bond anaerobic adhesives

BOSTIK: Anaerobic Engineering Adhesives

These adhesives offer a number of advantages over mechanical solutions, such as long-term reliability, increased versatility of application, and protection against corrosion.
Bostik, an Arkema company, has launched a new range of high-performance anaerobic adhesives to provide engineers with alternatives to commonly used mechanical fastening solutions such as washers, gaskets, pins, hemps, and tapes.
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Henkel optical adhesives

HENKEL: Dual-Cure Optical Adhesive

The adhesive allows precise positioning of optical lenses within a transceiver optical sub-assembly.
Henkel has developed LOCTITE® STYCAST® OS 5101, a dual-cure adhesive for optimal, precise optical lens and component alignment during the in-line assembly process for optical transceivers in next-generation cloud and hyperscale data centers.
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market trends

Ashland Provides Fiscal 2021 Financial Update

Due to supply chain and logistics factors, the company is adjusting its earnings outlook.
Ashland Global Holdings Inc. recently provided an update for its preliminary fiscal 2021 financial results.
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