European Industry Group promotes engineering thermoplastics.
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Formed within PlasticsEurope, Engineering Thermoplastics Working Group supports and promotes benefits of the engineering thermoplastics class of polymeric materials and their responsible use in industry. Group's mission is to serve as focal point for issues related to ETP resins in EU, endorse attractiveness of ETP industry in terms of career potential, and support content, priorities, and implementation of general work of PlasticsEurope.
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European Industry Group Forms to Support Communication & Education About Engineering Thermoplastics
A new Engineering Thermoplastics (ETP) Working Group has been formed within PlasticsEurope, the European trade association for plastics producers, to support and
promote the benefits of the engineering thermoplastics (ETP) class of polymeric materials and their responsible use in industry. The group will hold a short press briefing on Monday, 1 November 2010 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) at PlasticsEurope's booth (#C40 in Hall 6) during the triennial K 2010 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany being held this year from 27 October to 3 November. At the briefing, media will be able to meet with ETP Working Group members and to network during the reception that immediately follows.
According to Michael M. Koch, business unit director-Engineering Plastics Europe at DSM
Plastics B.V. and the newly elected chair of PlasticsEurope's ETP Working Group, "People have asked why we are doing this, why we thought industry needed another group representing yet another category of plastics. The answer is simple: engineering thermoplastics are a highly technical class of polymers that make very-significant contributions to weight and energy reduction, environmental protection, safety, aesthetics, manufacturing efficiency, cost savings, recyclability, and performance improvements in virtually all areas of industry. From safer, more aerodynamic cars to medical equipment with new diagnostic capabilities, to more energyefficient buildings, and more compact and feature-rich consumer electronics, engineering thermoplastics are enhancing the quality of life around the world. The ETP Working Group has been formed to provide the technical support necessary for PlasticsEurope to be able to optimise communication of those benefits through all of its activities."
Maria Ciliberti, commercial director-Europe, Ticona Engineering Polymers and the
communications chair of the ETP Working Group added "We see our mission as taking an
early role, alongside the other material groups within PlasticsEurope, in highlighting
innovations that engineering thermoplastics are delivering. We also want to have more
involvement in tackling the tough questions regarding the use of plastics in society and the principles that should be adopted when making risk assessments and full life-cycle analysis."
Formed in March, 2010 by representatives of Europe's leading plastics manufacturers, the Engineering Thermoplastics Working Group's multifold mission is to:
employability;
materials, particularly with regard to finding a common approach to making
environmental-impact assessments; and
PlasticsEurope.
Founding member companies include Arkema SA, BASF SE, Bayer MaterialScience AG, Dow
Europe GmbH, DSM Engineering Plastics BV, DuPont de Nemours International SA, Evonik
Röhm GmbH, LANXESS Deutschland GmbH, Rhodia SA, Solvay SA, Ticona GmbH, and
Zaklady Azotowe & Ternowie Mosciskach SA.
Engineering thermoplastics are a group of plastic materials with superior mechanical and thermal properties and as such are typically used in more demanding technical / engineering applications. Examples of engineering thermoplastic materials include: polyamide (PA, commonly called "nylon"), high-temperature polyamide (HTPA), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polysulfone (PSO), liquid-crystal polymers (LCPs), polycarbonate (PC), polycyclohexanedimethylene terephthalate (PCT), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyoxymethylene (POM, commonly known as "acetal"), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), as well as blends and alloys within this group of materials.
PlasticsEurope is a pan-European trade association headquartered in Brussels with five
regional centres: Central (including Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia); Iberia (including Spain and Portugal); Mediterranean (supporting Italy, Cyprus, and Greece); North (comprised of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway); and West (whose focus is France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and The Netherlands).
PlasticsEurope has more than 100 member companies, which, combined, produce over 90%
of all polymers across the 27 EU member states, plus Norway, Switzerland, Croatia and
Turkey. As the official voice of Europe's plastics manufacturers, the trade association develops and provides legislative, environmental, technical, and communications programmes that promote the positive contributions of plastics by:
misconceptions;
quality of life; and
In addition, PlasticsEurope works in close partnership with sister associations representing the entire European plastics manufacturing chain, including converters (moulders / processors) and machinery manufacturers. PlasticsEurope is recognised as a key ally of the European Commission and is an official partner of the Sustainable Energy Campaign. For further information on the plastics value chain, see the web links: www.plasticseurope.org, www.plasticsconverters.eu, www.euromap.org.
For more information about the Engineering Thermoplastics Working Group, please contact
Michael Koch at Michael-M.koch@dsm.com or write to PlasticsEurope:
Avenue E. Van Nieuwenhuyse 4, Box 3,
B - 1160 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 (2) 675 32 97
+32 (2) 675 39 35
www.plasticseurope.org
