SABIC Innovative Plastics - SABIC Innovative Plastics Begins Producing Long Glass Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Korea

CHUNG-JU, Korea — March 31, 2008 — To accommodate added account and abutment for barter in Korea and Asia – the fastest-growing bazaar in the apple – SABIC Innovative Plastics today appear the aperture of a above assembly band at its Chung-Ju, Korea facility. The new band will aftermath LNP* Verton* continued bottle fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites, which are broadly acclimated above the beginning automotive, telecommunications, and apparatus industries in Asia. The company’s connected investment in new assembly accessories such as the LNP Verton blended band is advised to accommodate barter with a bounded antecedent of avant-garde artefact solutions and abstruse expertise.

By accouterment barter with bounded assembly and resources, SABIC Innovative Plastics aims to carve accumulation times for LNP Verton blended grades. Local actual assembly can advice barter abate time to bazaar for a aggressive advantage, abnormally in the fast-moving telecommunications and electronics sectors.

“We are demonstrating our advancing charge to faster and added acknowledging chump account by advance in this new assembly line,” said Alan Leung, Pacific admiral for SABIC Innovative Plastics. “It will accredit us to bound accumulation manufacturers and molders in Korea and Asia with our accepted LNP Verton composites. These high-performance abstracts are in abundant appeal as above replacements for metal and short-fiber-reinforced plastics. We accept easier acceptance can advice barter advance and bazaar avant-garde applications for greater business success.”

SABIC Innovative Plastics continues to aggrandize its Korean attendance to accommodated the assorted needs of manufacturers and molders. The LNP Verton assembly line, which will activate operating this month, will run 20 grades of the composites in a array of adhesive systems including Polypropylene, Poly Amide and PPA. The new band decidedly expands the Chung-Ju facility, which was opened in 1989. The Chung-Ju bulb houses a 40,000-ton high-tech accomplishment system, actual backdrop testing equipment, and color-matching accessories to accommodated chump requirements. The bulb develops colors and abstracts through Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma; the closing is a business advance alignment that combines accoutrement from Lean Manufacturing for acceleration and Six Sigma for quality. The aftereffect is the highest-quality account with austere above administration (ISO 9002, ISO 14001).

Cost accumulation and college achievement with LNP Verton composites

LNP Verton thermoplastic bang abstraction compounds action top backbone and are an accomplished metal-replacement option. They affection continued glass-fiber accretion produced by a different pultrusion process. Molded Verton apparatus action aberrant automated performance, accumulation acerbity and outstanding attrition to appulse failure. Widely activated above all industries, long-fiber compounds accompany cogent amount accumulation to abounding actual backup projects.

For metal replacement, Verton can advice barter to save on absolute amount and access productivity. For example, according to testing done by SABIC Innovative Plastics’ technology team, adaptable buzz makers could accomplish up to a 30 percent amount accumulation and a 30 percent access in abundance by replacing the magnesium or added metal acclimated for centralized locations of sliding-type adaptable phones with LNP Verton composite. Other allowances cover weight abridgement and architecture flexibility.

As a backup for short-fiber-reinforced plastics, LNP Verton grades accommodate college appulse and dimensional stability, greater backbone and bend resistance, and bigger apparent finish.

For added advice on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ LNP Verton composites, amuse appointment the company’s website at www.sabic-ip.com.

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
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Europe
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The Netherlands
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Japan
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China
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Korea
Sumi Kim
Newscommunications, Seoul, Korea
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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.

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