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- ESSENTIAL November 2019
12.11.2019 ESSENTIAL Magazine
Plastics – Burden and Breakthrough at Once
Plastics are everywhere today. The benefits that they offer are extremely diverse – in industry, of course, although they make a special contribution to performance sports as well. That’s something that Thomas Schmidt, the winner in the kayak slalom in the 2000 Olympics, can highlight from his personal experience. After all, he has designed and built his own kayaks during his career. He says it’s only the use of plastics that has made competitive kayaking what it is today: a highly dynamic sport. He explains all this in detail in the new edition of ESSENTIAL.
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) is turning to plastics for the products it manufactures and is benefiting from their characteristics in important ways. Dr. Ernst Osen, who is in charge of global materials technology at FST, sees plastics as the material for the 21st-century. In an interview, he describes how plastics can be based on renewable materials and recounts the experience that FST has had with them. In addition, other articles in ESSENTIAL describe the responses to the world of plastics in Southeast Asia and Africa, and how researchers are tackling related problems in the United States.
You can read these and other interesting articles about these ubiquitous materials in the latest edition of ESSENTIAL from Freudenberg Sealing Technologies.
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Further Articles With These Taggings
Corteco Strengthens Ambitions in Southeast Europe
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies’ aftermarket unit opens a warehouse in Turkey and a sales office in Serbia.
Insects: Food for the Future
The trade in edible insects is booming. They are easy to raise and are a sustainable alternative to meat and fish.
Running On 100 Percent Green Power
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is inaugurating a new green plant in Parets del Vallès, Spain.
The Foods of Southeast Asia
Climate change, a growing population and rising incomes: All three factors are changing diets in Southeast Asia. This is also having an impact on the food industry.
Brunei’s Ambitious Plans For Hydrogen
Brunei’s ecological footprint can be expanded. The sultanate’s prosperity relies on fossil fuels. But natural gas offers this Southeast Asian country a path to the future: hydrogen.
A Photovoltaic-Hydropower Hybrid
Thailand is known for its turquoise waters and the allure of its tropical sun. But the combination of sun and sea is capable of much more. It is producing renewable energy at the world’s largest hydro-solar park.
Hydrogen: Setting Benchmarks Again
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies develops new sealing solution for use in the production of hydrogen.
Entry Into the Southeast Asian Market
A growing middle class, growing markets: Bernard Low, General Manager of the Regional Office in Malaysia, on how to develop a market like Southeast Asia – and how easy it is to underestimate its size.
“Integrity is the Key to Trust”
Singaporean management professor Tan Hwee Hoon describes why trust is built differently in Asia than in Europe. And what the global commonalities are.
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