SABIC Innovative Plastics - Potable Water Certifications for SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Hydrostable Noryl* Resins Speed Time to Market

Six Team Electric Pump Using SABIC Innovative Plastics Noryl* ResinStore this angel in big sizeBERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands — March 27, 2008 — Manufacturers of articles that appear in acquaintance with cooler baptize have to cross through a aggregation of regulations, which can adjournment time to market. SABIC Innovative Plastics has proactively and voluntarily acquired cooler baptize certifications for its hydrostable Noryl* resins to advice manufacturers abridge and acceleration up the approval process. By certifying Noryl resins for cooler baptize applications globally, SABIC Innovative Plastics is abacus amount to its abstracts for OEMs authoritative such articles as pumps, baptize analysis housings, and impellers. Noryl hydrostable grades are a allotment of actual few abstracts with an all-encompassing account of common certifications.

For bloom and assurance reasons, articles that accommodate or appear in acquaintance with bubbler baptize have to be certified in the countries area they are sold. Each arena has altered regulations. Regulatory agencies about appeal the actinic agreement of anniversary allotment in a product; accepting alone abstracts already certified simplifies and accelerates final approval and absolution to the market.

“Increasing regulations are important for chump protection, but they can crop up to six months, decidedly slowing down the accomplishment cycle,” said Danillo Boccardo, Noryl adhesive artefact manager, SABIC Innovative Plastics. “We accept a vested absorption in our customers’ business success, and so SABIC Innovative Plastics has proactively acquired cooler baptize certifications for Noryl resins. We’re one of the few companies to do this. Our efforts will advice manufacturers complete the acceptance action faster so they can activate breeding revenues from these new products.”

Noryl hydrostable resins accept been certified for use with cooler baptize systems beneath a ample amount of regulations in the United States, Europe, and Asia, such as NSF61, ACS, WRAS, KTW, and DM 174/04. This ample ambit of certifications allows manufacturers to rapidly accommodated requirements above geographies.

Best-in-Class Performance and Compliance

The SABIC Innovative Plastics ancestors of Noryl hydrostable resins, which are billowing blends of PPO* polyphenylene ether adhesive and polystyrene, action best-in-class assimilation of backdrop if apparent to water. These resins accommodate top access strength, and accomplished chemical, fatigue, and bend resistance. They are acclimated broadly as replacements for acceptable metals and added plastics, including acetal and polyamide. These resins are accessible in a array of able and bare grades.

For added advice on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Noryl resins, amuse appointment the company’s website at www.sabic-ip.com or alarm Danillo Boccardo, pole artefact administrator in Europe at +31 164 29 2480; Tom Hartle, Noryl artefact bazaar baton in the United States at +1 515 476 5038; or Robert Lin, pole artefact administrator in the Pacific at +86 2 2183 7199.

SABIC Innovative Plastics Media Contacts
The Americas
Christopher Tessier
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 448 6926
E-Mail: christopher.tessier@sabic-ip.com

Europe
Helen Vandebovenkamp
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 292 097
E-Mail: helen.vandebovenkamp@sabic-ip.com

Asia
Cecilia Siu
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 213 222 4500 Ext. 216
E-Mail: cecilia.siu@sabic-ip.com

Agency Media Contacts
The Americas
Jim Allison
AH&M Marketing Communications,
Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 448 2260, Ext. 25
E-Mail: jallison@ahminc.com

Europe
Tessa Vroegop
Marketing Solutions, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 317 013
E-Mail: tvroegop@marketingsolutions.be

Japan
Mitsu Sugino
Tokyo PR Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81 332 732 731
E-Mail: sugino@tokyopr.co.jp

China
Shona Liu
Edelman, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 21 6289 2929 x470
E-Mail: shona.liu@edelman.com

About SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics is a all-around supplier of artificial resins broadly acclimated in automotive, healthcare, chump electronics, transportation, achievement packaging, architecture and construction, telecommunications and optical media applications. The aggregation articles and compounds polycarbonate, ABS, ASA, PPE, PC/ABS, PBT and PEI resins, as able-bodied as the LNP* band of high-performance specialty compounds, beneath such able-bodied accepted casting names as Lexan*, Cycolac*, Geloy*, Noryl, Cycoloy*, Valox* and Ultem*.

The Specialty Film and Sheet analysis of SABIC Innovative Plastics articles high-performance Lexan area and blur articles acclimated in bags of ambitious applications worldwide. The committed automotive alignment is an experienced, common supplier, alms arch plastics solutions for 5 key automotive segments: anatomy panels and glazing; beneath the awning applications; component; structures and interiors; and lighting.

SABIC Innovative Plastics is allotment of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the 10 better petrochemicals manufacturers in the world.

* Trademarks of SABIC Innovative Plastics IP BV.

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