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Europe's first plastics road bridge is ready for use! The plastics bridge comes without nails and screws. Instead, the bridge's carriageway slab is made of fibreglass-reinforced polymer (FRP) glued onto two steel bearers. The bridge is 27 metres long by five metres wide and weighs 80 tonnes and can be used as any traditional bridge.
The first ever Soudal plant in Poland is being constructed in Pionki, in the mazowieckie voivodship. The Belgian company is to invest 35 million PLN and intends to hire 100 persons.
SABIC Innovative Plastics` Lexan Thermoclear Glazing Is Being Used for UEFA Euro 2008 Stadiums and Arenas.
BASF is expanding its production capacities for the innovative insulation product Neopor in Ludwigshafen and will start producing the material for the first time in South Korea. Neopor needs less material to achieve the same insulation quality as Styropor, thus making a key contribution to energy efficiency and climate protection.
In the plastics segment, BASF intends to focus on specialties and products with a high potential for differentiation in the market. The target is to increase the sales share of these products by 2010 from roughly 25 to 40%. At The International Construction Fair Budma 2008 in Poznań, Poland, the company showed its new methylstyrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (AMSAN). AMSAN are the group of polymers which are highly compatible with PVC and have a high glass transition temperature.