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Toyo Ink India, a member of the Japan-based chemicals manufacturer artience group (formerly Toyo Ink Group), announces plans to expand its production capacity for solvent-based adhesives at its manufacturing site in Gujarat, India. Meet Market Demands: A new production facility will be built on-site at the Gujarat plant as part of the expansion to meet rising local demand. The plant is slated to begin operations in April 2026 and will help to boost the Gujarat site’s adhesive capacity by 3.5 times its current output. In 2014, Toyo Ink India began importing adhesives from Japan and selling them to the local market for automotive interiors and has over the years expanded applications to home appliances and labels. In December 2021, a production operation was established in India, Gujarat, enabling the company to more promptly respond to customer needs and to further grow its business. As demand from these markets grew, the capacity for adhesive production became tight, leading to the dec

Orion broke ground on a plant in Texas that will be the only facility in the U.S. producing acetylene-based conductive additives. These additives will be for lithium-ion batteries and other applications vital for the global shift to electrification. Producing Additives having One-tenth of Carbon Footprint: The site in the city of La Porte, southeast of Houston, will create many high-skilled jobs, both in construction and technical fields and bring innovative technology to the American economy. The battery additives produced by Orion’s plant will be super clean, with only one-tenth of the carbon footprint of other commonly used materials. “Orion is already the sole producer of acetylene-based conductive additives in Europe,” Orion CEO Corning Painter said at the groundbreaking ceremony. “Our plant in La Porte will be a pivotal step toward strengthening the regional supply of conductive additives in the rapidly growing U.S. battery market.” Every battery requires conductive additives. Th

  India is consistently pushing the boundaries. Launching India’s first Hydrogen Fuel cell coach. BharatBenz & Reliance recently released the coach has a range of 400 km. Hydrogen fuel cells provide an inherently clean source of energy. This is an amazing first step to make hydrogen fuel from greener sources which paves way for a sustainable future! source:Brendan Rogers

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share Characterizing the excited states of individual atoms through the combination of tunneling microscopy and pulsed laser The characterization of the dynamics of the excited states of a single atom localized on a surface remains to this day an experimental challenge. By combining a tunable pulsed laser at the junction of a low-temperature tunneling microscope, researchers have highlighted rapid photocurrent signals that can be attributed to the dynamics of excited states of an individual erbium atom deposited on the silicon surface. In a vast majority of physico-chemical processes, the excited states of atoms are obtained either by absorbing light or by interacting with electrons. The most common method for measuring the characteristics of the quantum state of an excited atom is to analyze the light emitted during its relaxation to its ground state. In a gas, it is possible to observe many atoms relaxing simultaneously and thus collect enough light signal. Whe

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share Full carbon fiber composite fairing delivered for first flight of Tianbing Technology’s Tianlong 3  The large-diameter full carbon fiber composite fairing of Tianbing Technology’s Tianlong 3 (TL-3) launch vehicle rolled off the production line. “Tianbing Technology has fully mastered the development capabilities of large-scale composite cabin sections and achieves another major breakthrough in the development of high-quality, high-efficiency, low-cost products. The rocket fairing is located at the front end of the rocket and is an extremely important and complex section of the rocket. The TL-3 large fairing has a diameter of 4200 mm and a length of about 13 meters. It is made entirely of carbon fiber composite materials. It is the largest fairing in domestic commercial aerospace and the largest full carbon fiber fairing in China. It is also the first domestic fairing that is customized for satellite internet constellations. It can be called the most advanced

Avient Corporation, a provider of specialized and sustainable materials solutions and services, announces a successful collaboration with its long-standing and valued customer, Hager Group. Avient supported Hager to incorporate 27% recycled ocean-bound plastic into its new cubyko leaf waterproof outdoor sockets and switches, providing its customers with a more eco-conscious option. This success was achieved in further collaboration with Plastic Bank. It provides the recycled ocean-bound plastic waste that Avient formulates into high-performance polyolefin materials. Replaces Primary Materials by Meeting Technical Specifications Avient constributed to this success by developing customized versions of its Maxxam™ REC Recycled Polyolefin Formulations. It contains 50% recycled ocean-bound plastic content, using Social Plastic® feedstock from Plastic Bank. As a result, the final assembly of the Hager cubyko leaf includes 27% ocean-bound plastic content. These formulations effectively replac

A new composite material is finding its way into the construction industry. Made from natural stone, carbon fibers and biochar, it is an alternative to reinforced concrete. It is characterized by a particularly good CO2 balance. The DITF is leading the joint project “DACCUS-Pre*”. The basic idea of the project is to develop a new building material that stores carbon in the long term and removes more CO2 from the atmosphere than is emitted during its production.        In collaboration with the company TechnoCarbon Technologies, the project is now well advanced – a first demonstrator in the form of a house wall element has been realized. It consists of three materials: Natural stone, carbon fibers and biochar. Each component contributes in a different way to the negative CO2 balance of the material: Two slabs of natural stone form the exposed walls of the wall element. The mechanical processing of the material, i.e. sawing in stone cutting machines, produces significant quantities of st