Growing demand for lightweight composite materials in China has prompted global engineered foams manufacturer Armacell International SA to launch a new PET foam production line in the country. The ...

Armacell Canada Inc. has installed a new extrusion line that will convert recycled PET resin into PET foam. The company spent about 6 million euros (US$6.42 million) on the project, which was ...

John Ross Turner appointed Vice President AMERICAS Role drives value creation across Advanced Insulation and Component Foams through growth, performance, innovation, teamwork and the acceleration of ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Armacell, a provider of flexible foam for the equipment insulation market and a provider of engineered foams, announced the commercial market release of ArmaFlex Ultra with ...

The LapSeal™ closed-cell elastomeric foam pipe insulation has a patent-pending dual closure system. In addition to a moisture seal, the tubing has a reinforced elastic foam lap seal. This dual system ...

NEW YORK—Two private equity firms, the Blackstone Group L.P. and Kirkbi a.s., plan to purchase Armacell L.L.C. from Charterhouse, which, officials at the companies said, should expand Armacell's ...

Armacell (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) offers a wide range of innovative, eco-friendly PET foam solutions for structural and insulation applications based on 100% recycled PET (rPET). Specifically, the ...

Photo courtesy of the Roane County Economic Development Authority Flexible foam manufacturer Armacell is moving its Spencer operations into the 103,000-square-foot former Mustang Survival facility, ...

Despite significant recycling initiatives, it is currently estimated that only 9% of plastics are recycled. This is harmful to the environment in two ways. The first is that the production of plastic ...

Armacell (Münster, Germany), a manufacturer of engineered foams for composite cores, reported on Sept. 14 that it has begun construction of two additional PET production lines at its PET foams ...

Worldwide, a million plastic drinking bottles are bought every minute. Most are probably thrown away or end up in landfill. Although awareness of the plastic waste issue has been growing in recent ...