Bluestar Silicones is one of the foremost fully integrated silicone manufacturers in the world. With over 50 years silicones expertise, Bluestar Silicones offers a comprehensive range of silicones products in the sectors of release coatings, engineering elastomers, healthcare products, specialty fluids, emulsions and resins. Bluestar Silicones is committed to a sustainable development policy based on health, safety, the environment, transport, substances and regulations related to manufactured products.
With a range of over 3,000 silicone products, WACKER SILICONES ranks among the world’s largest manufacturers of silanes and silicones. We are also the market leader in key subsegments. Our product portfolio ranges from silanes through silicone fluids, emulsions, elastomers, sealants and resins to pyrogenic silicas. WACKER SILICONES’ wealth of products, experience and expertise enables offering complete, customized solutions. Cooperating closely with customers, we develop new products and innovative production processes to help cut costs and optimize business. To this end, we provide lab support for product formulation and approval, and for scale-up to full production. We also assist our clients with the development of supply-chain and packaging strategies.
Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, designs, manufactures and distributes building and high-performance materials, providing innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection. Our ambitions are a strategic focus on sustainable habitat solutions within an innovation-driven Group. Saint-Gobain is the European or worldwide leader in all of its businesses: innovative materials, construction products, building distribution and packaging (Verallia). Saint-Gobain is also a worldwide leader in the sustainable habitat and construction markets, with operations in 64 countries and a total of 190,000 employees.
Gelest, Inc. is an innovator, manufacturer, and supplier of commercial and research quantities of over 3,000 organosilicon compounds, silicones, and metal-organic compounds and is committed to being a leader in the materials science marketplace, serving advanced technology markets through a customer-driven approach. The company encourages close relationships with its customers to develop application specific materials to meet the end user’s specifications for performance and purity.
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (MPM), is a global leader in silicones and quartz and ceramics, with a 70-year heritage of being first to market with performance applications for major industries that support and improve everyday life. In particular, the Silicones business is a global business engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of unique silanes, elastomers, sealants, adhesives, fluids, urethane additives for automotive, electronics, building and construction, cosmetic, aerospace and medical industries. These enabling technologies are at the frontline of innovation.
Throughout the world, Springer provide scientific and professional communities with superior specialist information – produced by authors and colleagues across cultures in a nurtured collegial atmosphere of which we are justifiably proud.
We in Springer foster communication among our customers – researchers, students and professionals – enabling them to work more efficiently, thereby advancing knowledge and learning. We also think ahead, move fast and promote change: creative business models, inventive products, and mutually beneficial international partnerships have established us as a trusted supplier and pioneer in the information age.
The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). Leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future. The CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research.
Siltech has two modern plants equipped with efficient, large-scale, high-temperature and pressure reactors, thin film evaporators and other modern equipment required in such unit processes as equilibration, hydrosylilation, quaternization, amidation, phosphation, esterification, etc. We at Siltech also pay special attention to the changing technological requirements of the industries we serve. Our R&D and technical service laboratories are modernly equipped and staffed by chemists with many years of experience in diverse segments of the chemical processing industry. In addition, we have efficient pilot plant facilities available to produce special products for your experimental needs.
Hutchinson, a French company from the Chemical Branch of the Total group is one of the world’s leaders in elastomer transformation. Hutchinson is established the world over. Hutchinson provides its clients with its strong capacity for innovation, its understanding of complex phenomena as well as a wealth of knowledge from vast scientific pursuits. Hutchinson teams rally around three fundamental values: a will to overcome even the greatest challenges, an open mind and trust. Hutchinson is the preferred partner of the major air, land and marine transport groups.
Protex International is a medium-sized independent company that develop, produce and market chemical and biochemical specialties for various industries. Originally dedicated to textile auxiliaries, Protex International has spread its expertise to a wide variety of markets: Agriculture, Food, Fine Chemical, Specialty chemical, Electronics, Paper, Perfumes, Paints & Coatings, Textile, Water treatment. Thanks to its constant innovation and its broad spectrum of know-how, from chemical synthesis to polymerization and formulation, Protex International meets its customers’ expectations in their strategy of development of high performance products from a technological as well as an ecological stand point.
INSA Lyon is ranked among the top universities of Science and Technology in Europe, pluridisciplinary and international, at the heart of the European Higher Education Area. Over a 5 year curriculum it trains humanist multi-competent engineers who are both innovative and entrepreneurial. INSA Lyon applies a policy of excellence implemented at all levels. It graduates over 950 engineers each year in 12 fields of specialisation. International perspective has always been a priority for the establishment which has progressively set up international options such as EURINSA, ASINSA, AMERINSA and SCAN.
Rubber & Plastics News is a bi-monthly tabloid newspaper reaching 12,000+ rubber product manufacturers and others allied to the rubber industry. It provides news, features, commentary, technical and marketing information in print and daily on the Internet to rubber product manufacturers, suppliers, consultants and laboratories worldwide. Rubber & Plastics News also organizes several technical conferences in North America, plus the International Tire Exhibition & Conference. In addition, Rubber & Plastics News offers niche email newsletters for the latex, silicone and global tire industries.
The "Groupe Français d’Études et d’Applications des Polymères" is a French association aiming at organizing the french polymer network and proposing new thoughts and a technological survey platform. Its mission, which is publicly recognized since 1990, is to promote the development of polymers in the research and education academic institutions in France, but also throughout the french industrial network.
The National Center for Scientific Research is a public organization under the
responsibility of the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research. This pluridisciplinary institution covers all scientific disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, biological sciences, nuclear and particle physics, information sciences, engineering and systems, physics, mathematical
sciences, chemistry, Earth sciences and astronomy, ecology and the environment.
It also promotes interaction between disciplines. With nearly 33,000 researchers, engineers and technicians, the CNRS is organized around 10 Institutes which orchestrate its scientific policy, while its 19 divisions represent it in the regions. Its more than 1,100 research and service units, including some 95% in partnership with universities, higher education institutions and other research organizations, are present
throughout France.
ABCR GmbH with its headquarters in Germany has been a competent partner for the procurement, production, research and development of specialty chemicals since 25 years. With ABCR you have access to over 100,000 products from the organic, organometallic and inorganic specialty chemicals area. In our Si-catalogue we offer: 3,500 silicone compounds, polymers, organic and inorganic compounds, more than 1,000 Si building blocks, some of which are unique worldwide.
Through active research on development processes in our production and labs in Europe, we ensure a consistently high quality level. As individual as your processes - the tailor-made custom synthesis with a scale-up possibility from laboratory scale, up to production scale in bulk quantities can fulfil your needs. In our logistic centre in Germany we keep a large proportion of products on stock which enables us to provide you with our steady and reliable deliveries worldwide.
