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Nordel MG to "break new ground". (Products).(DuPont Dow Elastomers offers new grades of Nordel ethylene-propylene-diene-monomer)(Brief Article)

European Rubber Journal, June, 2002

* Following its acquisition of the former Union Carbide plant at Seadrift, Texas DuPont Dew Elastomers is now offering grades of its Nordel EPDM materials using a gas-phase production process and Dew Chemical's INSITE metallocene catalysis system. The grades made with the new process will be called Nordel MG, in contrast to the Nordel IP made in the company's more conventional metallocene plants.

Torkel Rhenman, global business director of DDE's Nordel business, said, "Initial Nordel MG grades will be aimed at roofing, hose and custom mixing applications and are expected to be introduced in the first half of 2002. Additional grades slated for the second half of 2002 will break new ground for EPDM with some very interesting unique characteristics and benefits."...

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