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DowDuPont Specialty Products Division is introducing its new DOW CORNING™ MG 7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive, the latest addition to a growing portfolio of solutions for skin-adhered medical devices. Based on advanced silicone technology, this unique product delivers strong adhesion and extended wear, as well as design and manufacturing flexibility – while avoiding the skin irritation and discomfort more common with the removal of acrylic adhesives. DOW CORNING MG 7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive can be used with fabric backing and addresses the health care industry’s growing focus on biologic drugs that call for innovative delivery mechanisms such as patch pumps. View more and related images

Solvay adds 10% carbon fiber filled KetaSpire® polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and neat Radel® polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) to e-Xstream engineering’s latest release (2019.0) of Digimat®-Additive Manufacturing (AM) software.These products complement the neat KetaSpire® PEEK AM filament already available for simulation on e-Xstream engineering’s Digimat®-AM platform. View more and related images

As part of its strategy to foster the additional growth of its Specialties business, and to provide outstanding service to its customers in North America, SABIC has named Chase Plastic Services, Inc. as a key distribution partner, serving SABIC customers for specialty engineering thermoplastics in the United States, Canada and Mexico. View more and related images

DowDuPont Specialty Products Division will showcase its recently combined portfolio of innovative, healthcare product technologies and solutions in booth #3001/3005 at MD&M West in Anaheim, California, Feb. 5-7, 2019. View more and related images

SABIC announced today that it has taken a majority stake in Black Diamond Structures (“BDS”), a nanotechnology company established in 2014. BDS produces and commercializes MOLECULAR REBAR®, a proprietary technology of modified carbon nanotubes that offers great potential for enhancing the performance of energy storage applications using lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. View more and related images

Solvay will present at MD&M West 2019 on the use of metal-to-plastic conversion to drive new medical device designs. Solvay’s Global Market Manager for Healthcare, Anna Maria Bertasa, will present the paper on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Titled, “How to Make Specialty Polymers as Strong as Metal,” Bertasa will discuss how specialty polymers can be used to replace even the strongest and stiffest steel devices by incorporating simple design modifications, and how advanced polymers are now being used to enable innovative hybrid polymer-metal solutions. Her presentation will include case studies to illustrate typical development cycles and highlight the performance advantages that can be achieved by replacing metal with polymer technologies to create next-generation devices. View more and related images

Solvay Performance Polyamides introduces an enhanced version of Technyl® One, the company’s range of halogen-free flame-retardant materials. The new generation of products meets the challenges of the digital transforming of cities by delivering more performance, safety and environmental protection. View more and related images

The energy-saving benefits of Milliken's Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifier for polypropylene (PP) have long been known and documented. But now downstream customers, particularly in Asia, are realizing the upside of this, and are beginning to leverage this to their manufacturing advantage and the resulting UL Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) label to their marketing advantage. View more and related images

SABIC is presenting an innovative new transparent high-heat LEXAN™ CXT film product at the IDTechEx show in California. The new polycarbonate (PC) based technology combines superior optical clarity and high design flexibility with excellent thermal and dimensional stability at elevated process temperatures. View more and related images

Dow Silicones Corporation (DowDuPont Specialty Products Division) is introducing its new DOW CORNING™ MG7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive, the latest addition to a growing portfolio of solutions for skin-adhered medical devices. Based on advanced silicone technology, this unique product delivers strong adhesion and extended wear, as well as design and manufacturing flexibility – while avoiding the skin irritation and discomfort more common with the removal of acrylic adhesives. DOW CORNING MG7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive can be used with fabric backing and addresses the healthcare industry’s growing focus on biologic drugs that call for innovative delivery mechanisms such as patch pumps. View more and related images