Tag: polymer

Festo Introduces Powerful, Lightweight, and Inexpensive Pneumatic Service Units – MS-Basic

Festo launches MS-Basic, a family of pneumatic service units in polymer housings that offer attractively priced components covering most application needs.

Challenges in Sustainable Polymer Solutions for Valve Sealing Elements

It is difficult or perhaps impossible to find an industry sector that has not yet increased focus and public promotion of its corporate targets related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs.

EnPro Divests Polymer Components Business

EnPro Industries, an industrial technology company, announced the sale of its polymer components business to Edgewater Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on performance materials, based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Fluoroloy® Polymer Compounds for high Pressure Field

Saint-Gobain Seals has been selected by a major U.S. oil and gas corporation to qualify its Fluoroloy® sealing solutions and polymer materials to enhance oil recovery for an ultra-high pressure field in the Gulf of Mexico, contributing chemical compatibility tests with requirements for 20,000 psi pressure (20K) valve qualification.

Scalable manifold adapts to any application

The Festo MPA-L valve manifold is scalable down to a single valve slice, so directional valves can be adapted to any application. The sub-base is made from a rugged polymer design that offers good corrosion resistance and light weight.

Akzo Nobel invests in polysulfide expansion

Akzo Nobel’s business unit Plastics and Processing Additives, operating under the name Akcros Chemicals, will invest in a major expansion at its Greiz facility in Germany.