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At the Materialica 2011 fair in Munich in October, Germany-based LED Linear won the silver product award category for its Venus Led light strips. 7 December 2011

Italian home appliance manufacturer Indesit has recently unveiled plans to set up a new plastic components plant in Lodz, Poland. The company aims to invest at least €30m and create over 250 new jobs at the factory. 1 December 2011

Polycarbonate producers Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics (DSM's former PC business) and Styron are both supplying polycarbonate for the housings of domestic smart meters. The electricity meters have been, or are being, installed in various roll-out programmes by utility companies in many parts of the world, substituting conventional meters 9 November 2011

Sabic Innovative Plastics says its Lexan and Cycoloy materials are used in the award-winning ResMed S9 series of sleep apnea devices 8 November 2011

BASF is supplying a special hydrolysis resistant grade of its Ultradur PBT resin for the control housing of the Bosch ESP9 electronic stability programme (ESP) system. The Ultradur B4333G6 HR grade of 30% glass fibre reinforced PBT can be laser marked and welded, says BASF, which has not revealed the moulder of the housing 8 November 2011

Dow is adding capacity for its Enlight-brand polyolefin encapsulant films in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, and Schkopau, Germany. 4 August 2011

Chinese refrigerator maker Haier will take delivery of 20 Kiefel thermoforming machines this year to support market growth and new model introductions. 6 September 2010

Polymer materials giant Bayer MaterialScience has joined the Holst Centre to develop smart polymer-based flexible electronics. 13 July 2010

US company has agreed to buy the German photovoltaics encapsulants manufacturer to extend its position in the high potential growth renewable energy sector 1 March 2010

Bayer MaterialScience has launched two nano-particulate inks for printing electronic circuits onto flexible or rigid plastics substrates 18 February 2010

Japanese moulder is producing 0.4mm high reflector cups used in what are claimed to be the slimmest commercially-available side view LEDs 18 February 2010

Italian compound maker says the new PLA compounds meet UL94-V0 requirements at 0.8mm thickness, providing a renewable alternative to PP, PBT or PA 10 November 2009

A new line of melt processable fluoropolymer (MPFP) colour masterbatches are suitable for wire and cable applications, says developer RTP 21 October 2009

Computer manufacturer Lenovo has won the first TCO Certified Edge award for 'green' IT design with its recycled ABS computer 21 October 2009

The US moulding group has invested in Morgan Solar through its newly established New Ventures Group 15 October 2009

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