Manufacturing Industry
DuPont Dow adds Engage grades.(News)
Plastics News, May, 2004 by Esposito, Frank
Byline: Frank Esposito DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC has commercialized six new grades of its Engage-brand polyolefin elastomers since late 2003, and may have a seventh in place by the end of 2004. The Wilmington, Del.-based joint venture between DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co. fired up a 300 million-pound-per-year Engage expansion at its Plaquemine, La., site in July.
The expansion already is running at nameplate capacity, according to Americas marketing manager Randy Stone. One of the new Engage grades is moving the material into the blow molding realm, Stone said in a recent phone interview. The grade has 25 percent better melt strength than previous Engage materials, allowing it to be blended with polypropylene in blow molded parts for the automotive,...
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