Chemical industry starts to pay attention to
BASF's applications of ionic liquids for engineering process.
| The technology developed by BASF to apply ionic liquids to engineering processes has started to draw attention worldwide. See the image on the right for an example of application presentation. |
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TES number increases, 4,000 have been TES-qualified.
300 are expected to pass this year.
The number of applicants for the qualification of textile evaluation specialist (TES), established and operated by Nihon Iryo Kanri Kyokai (Japan Textile Advisors' Association), has increased annually, and about 4,000 have been TES-qualified to date in Japan. Concerned parties see it is as quite likely that approximately 300 will be passed this year.
Acrylic binder is getting popular for pigment printing in Bangladesh.
According to trading company sources, the use of Japanese acrylic binder for special pigment printing is conspicuous in Bangladesh. CMC is popular as a thickener for normal printing. Because of the hot weather, the emphasis is on CMC which is nonperishable.
Trading companies give notice to clients of price revision of CMC for overseas.
Since CMC manufacturers including Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku have started to raise the prices of CMC one after the other because of the high cost of raw materials, trading companies have announced a price rise to overseas clients.
Egyptian contract for black deepening agent for cotton.
A business firm from Kansai has recently concluded a sales agreement for black deepening agent for cotton with an Egyptian firm. Another contract has been completed with textile firms in certain areas of the US which carry out dyeing processing for exhibiting at Premiere Vision Paris.
Service activities put apparels in perspective
by dyestuffs sales companies targeting Japanese market.
Japanese dyestuffs sales companies are intensifying their service activities with implications for apparel companies. It is not that they will start direct selling to apparels, but responding to the fact that an increasing number of people in apparels, department stores and cleaning industries study dyeing technology and obtain the qualification of textile evaluation specialist, they have started to reinforce a new communication system which provides information on dyestuffs and dyeing technology through the employment of IT.
Kuraray, Tekken and Public Works Research Institute
have developed construction method for strengthening tunnels
using high-strength fiber reinforced mortar.
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Tekken Corporation and Kuraray Co., Ltd. in collaboration with the Public Works Research Institute have developed a "Highly intensive thin-wall-reinforcing construction method" for strengthening the inner walls of tunnels using high-strength fiber-reinforced mortar.
The method uses mortar mixed with short-fiber content with superior compressive strength and toughness as the inner tunnel strengthening material and combining it with continuous fiber reinforced mesh as tensile reinforcing material, and has been developed for the functional restoration and reinforcement of lining concrete damaged by age-related degradation and earth pressure caused by the mountainous terrain. They have established this designing and construction method after verifying enough reinforcing effect by carrying out the loading test with an actual-size test specimen at the Public Works Research Institute.
Toyobo and RIKEN jointly developed low-molecular microarray which does not rely on functional groups.
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Toyobo and chief scientist Mr. Osada from RIKEN's Discovery Research Institute have developed a low-molecular microarray "Photo-linker Chip," and started its promotion.
Since it can fix any compound not relying on functional groups of low molecular weight compounds, it makes it possible to produce low-molecular microarrays more easily and in less time than ever before.
Through using "Photo-linker Chip" and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) imaging "MultiSPRinter" for analysis of low-molecular microarrays in combination, coherence between the candidate substance for new drugs and the targeted protein can be observed in far less time than in the conventional way, which enables the screening of new drugs binding to proteins.
Japan Exlan develops amino-acid constituent retaining acrylate fiber.
Japan Exlan has developed “SUPLI” acrylate fiber which retains arginine (an amino-acid constituent).According to Japan Exlan, amino-acid has a property to hold moisture, and in particular arginine has a high moisture-retaining property with excellent dermal transfer.
Mitsubishi Rayon’s production equipment
for wider artificial leather
Mitsubishi Rayon will employ new production equipment (high-pressure water jet equipment, capable of wider fabrics) for the suede-style artificial leather “Glore” in its Otake factory (Otake, Hiroshima). Production capacity is 2.65 million m2 /year, and operation is scheduled to start from January 2007.
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