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As a former race car driver, Massimo Raffaele was certainly used to making bold moves. Once he traded in his race car for a delivery truck, Raffaele began learning about the printing industry through his work transporting and delivering packaging materials throughout his native Italy.

At the UV Days, which took place from 4 to 6 July in Nürtingen, Germany, organiser IST METZ welcomed around 1000 guests and 40 exhibitors from a total of 32 countries.

To drive the global chemical industry on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050, the Low-Carbon Emitting Technologies (LCET) initiative, incubated and hosted by the World Economic Forum for more than three years, has now officially launched as the independent Global Impact Coalition.

a global manufacturer of custom-engineered TPEs, announces the launch of its latest product line. These solutions expand the group of THERMOLAST® R compounds and make it possible to use a high percentage of recycled materials. In comparison to the already established products, up to 70% can be achieved even in materials with low Shore A hardness.

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) and Perovskite-based systems are creating radically new applications in consumer electronics. They include indoor light harvesting to extend battery life of wearables, and outdoor energy generation with performance in regard of their flexibility previously unimaginable from conventional photovoltaics.

As a regular exhibitor at the annual in-cosmetics Asia trade show held in Thailand, a global leading specialty chemical company Clariant will return this year with a brand new concept based on the Thai beauty by offering solutions leveraging natural ingredients through the power of science. The show will be staged on 7-9 November 2023 at the BITEC in Bangkok.

Clariant has unveiled its latest innovation for laundry liquid applications, TexCare Gemini SG Terra, which provides formulators with “one product, double function”, offering a high-performing soil release polymer that keeps the rheology of the detergent under control.

RadTech Europe, the European association for energy curing technology, has themed its biennial conference around the technologies power to save and is targeting formulators with its conference programme.