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Celanese takes over FACT Future Advanced Composites Technology GmbH

Kelsterbach, Germany / Florence, Kentucky – December 21, 2009 – Ticona’s parent company, the Celanese Corporation, announced today the acquisition of FACT Future Advanced Composites Technology GmbH (FACT). With its main office in Kaiserslautern and a workforce of about 60 employees, the company is a leading producer of long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) for injection molding, extrusion, compression molding and blow molding applications. Prior to its acquisition by Celanese, FACT was a subsidiary of the Ravago Group of Belgium. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Your contact:

Henning Küll

Phone: +49 (0) 6107 772 17 97

Fax: +49 (0) 6107 772 72 31

E-mail:  kuell(at)ticona.de

Internet: http://www.ticona.com

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How time flies: Next year there will be the 10th jubilee of the EATC-Group.

The first meeting started at the 14th of March 2000 in Frankfurt/Main. In the meantime there have been a lot of discussions, meetings, ideas and activities.

We are looking forward for the next 10 years and will summerize some activities, which we will show up in March next year.

We wish everybody a mery christmas and a good start in 2010!

After two successful years Mr. Dr. Egon Moos (Röchling Automotive AG) retires from his position as the chairman of the EATC-Group. The whole groups thanks Dr. Moos for his engagement.

As his successor Mr. Jochen Reichhold (Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH) was elected with one voice. He will chair the group from now on.

PPG introduces TUFROV 4575 LFT fiber glass roving

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 9, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) is now offering TUFROV 4575 long-fiber thermoplastic (LFT) fiber glass roving to customers worldwide. TUFROV fiber glass is designed for the automotive industry and other applications requiring a high-performance LFT product.

TUFROV 4575 fiber glass has demonstrated 20-percent tensile strength improvement and 40-percent impact performance improvement over current LFT products. It achieves maximum adhesion with polypropylene resins and offers improved hydrolytic stability.

“Customers are experiencing improved throughput and physical properties using this new PPG product,” according to Curt Thielker, PPG global market manager, LFT. “In numerous applications, the new TUFROV fiber glass has demonstrated excellent surface characteristics in ’show surfaces’ because of its exceptional glass dispersion.”

This new TUFROV fiber glass expands the global footprint of PPG’s LFT product line. LFT fiber glass products by PPG support a variety of resin systems, helping customers to reduce costs and improve component performance. According to PPG, they are “greener” alternatives to traditional thermoset composite materials and also offer superior performance.

About PPG
Pittsburgh-based PPG is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass and fiber glass. The company has more than 140 manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates and operates in more than 60 countries. Sales in 2008 were $15.8 billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: PPG). For more information, visit www.ppg.com.

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TUFROV is a trademark of PPG Industries.

The EATC-Showcar is on the Road since 2007 and has attended various events. From today on you can see in the followoing list, where it has already been and where it stays today. Its current position is at the BASt (The Bundesanstalt für Straßenverkehrswesen in Bergisch-Gladbach)

Next time that it will be on the road again is the Composites Europe 2010 in Essen.

Looking forward meeting you there!

Esprit, a new project with partners drawn from across Europe, is developing Self Reinforced Plastics to allow radical new methods of manufacture and processing. Also the EATC-Group is a member in this project. This year the ESPRIT Q 4 Meeting took place at AIMPLAS in Valencia from the 6-7 October.

For detailed Information please see the press release enclosed.

From the 27th to the 29th of october the EATC show-car was present at the Composites Europe.  The 4th European Trade Fair & Forum for Composites, Technology and Applications.

The car could be seen in Hal 2 and was very well visited as you see at the little impression below.

We are looking foward meeting you the next time!

The EATC show car was shown at the “aerospace day” of the DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) on September, 20th, 2009. More than 100.000 visitors in total were at the show in Cologne (for details see http://www.dlr.de/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-1/86_read-19885/). Even the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia took the chance to inform himself of the activities of the AVK and the EATC.

3B is a leading developer and supplier of fibreglass products and technologies for the reinforcement of thermoplastics and thermosets. This young and dynamic company has two state-of-the-art fibreglass manufacturing facilities in Battice, Belgium and Birkeland, Norway formerly owned by Owens Corning. 3B has its own manufacturing, sales, marketing and R&D organization and is committed to technological innovation and excellence with an emphasis on environmental responsibility. Read the rest of this entry »

The next AVK Conference will take place from 26-27 October in Stuttgart (in conjunction with the COMPOSITES EUROPE trade fair).

The EATC will have an own session within the Conference on 27 October. Moderated by Prof. Henning, Fraunhofer ICT, there will speeches from the EATC member companies SABIC Europe, Ticona GmbH and Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH.