Americas
Duna-USA has added a low-density production line to its Texas facility. It has also purchased another six acres of land at the Baytown site.
Digital manufacturing specialist Carbon is launching a new rigid polyurethane for 3D printing.
The number of US building permits issued in the first nine months of 2019 was down by 1.24% at
Scott Bader has collaborated with Shape Corp to create a curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fibre bumper beam for the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.
World new car registrations in September 2019 were down 2.7% compared with the same month in 2018, at 7.51m units.
Chinese mattress exports to the US totalled 67,500 units in August. This is a fall of 93% compared to the same month in 2018.
Cannon's plant at Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania is operating at capacity, according to Cannon USA president Paolo Spinelli.
Hennecke is reorganising its business structure into four different centres.
Italian machinery maker Saip has recently installed two polyurethane sandwich panel lines in North America.
The North American Polyurethane industry produced over 9 bn lbs (4m t) of polyurethane in 2018, and the market is growing at over 3.9%/year.
