Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fibre combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), the world leader in the development and marketing of flame retardants and other innovative polymer additives and catalysts, will join plastics makers, compounders and molders from around the globe at the world's largest plastics technology exhibition, K 2007, the International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, in Dusseldorf, Germany this October.
DAYTON, OH, U.S.A., September 21, 2007: In the intensely competitive sport of paintball, where players take practice very seriously, the idea of paintless paintballs is no contradiction. Being paintless, they are reusable, enabling players to practice as much as they wish without the higher cost¡ªand obvious mess¡ªthat comes with using regular paintballs. The challenge is to design a reusable ball that performs just like the real thing, minus the paint mark.
Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fibre combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings.
DAYTON, OH, U.S.A., September 21, 2007: In the intensely competitive sport of paintball, where players take practice very seriously, the idea of paintless paintballs is no contradiction. Being paintless, they are reusable, enabling players to practice as much as they wish without the higher cost¡ªand obvious mess¡ªthat comes with using regular paintballs. The challenge is to design a reusable ball that performs just like the real thing, minus the paint mark.
EuPC, the Brussels based trade body for plastics converters, is warning that high oil prices are threatening the recovery of the industry.