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COMPANY NEWS
Henkel India expands capabilities of its Innovation Centre at Pune
Henkel Adhesives Technologies India Private Limited
(Henkel India), a fully owned subsidiary of Henkel AG
& Co. KGaA, the leading solution provider for adhesives,
sealants and functional coatings, has expanded the
capabilities of its Pune Innovation Center with two
dedicated laboratories, one for Maintenance Repair and
Overhaul (MRO) and the other for Acoustic and NVH. These
laboratories will facilitate development of products that
can meet the unique needs of customers to save costs,
reduce downtime and improve performance; test products
in simulated conditions in-house before they are used
in actual conditions; and train customers on product
selection, application, and best practices. Jerry Perkins,
Global Head of
General Industry is able to offer full capabilities including Computer
Adhesives,
Henkel Group
said, “At
Henkel, we
partner with our partnerships with them to achieve success. The MRO and
customers across Acoustic Centers will go a long way in working with our
diverse industry customers to work on ?nding complete solutions to their
segments to help them achieve business success. We
offer end-to-end solutions to our customers right
from developing and selecting right solutions, testing
and validation to on-the-line implementation. We are
committed to further deepen our partnership with our
customers in India, Middle East and Africa with the new
investments in Innovation Center at Pune." The new MRO
Application Development Centre at Pune is fully equipped
to develop and offer Loctite® Polymer Composite
solutions to rebuild, repair and protect industrial
equipment. With extremely hard reinforcement ?llers,
Loctite® Polymer Composite products have excellent
wear resistance and superior adhesion. They are designed
for speci?c service conditions to protect and extend the
service life of a wide range of plant and equipment. The
advantage of using these products is that they act as a
sacri?cial and renewable working surface, protecting the
structural integrity of the original substrate. The Center
has full capability to apply and test the performance of
these innovative solutions in typical industrial operating
environments. The Acoustic Engineering Center provides
comprehensive testing of Henkel's individual and
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combined parts and pumpable acoustic solutions, offering
customers performance and economical expertise in
acoustics, along with detailed analytical results of their
?ndings to offer optimum NVH solutions. In addition to
panel vibration and sound propagation of a typical body
structure, the facility conducts evaluations for vibration
damping or stiffening body panels using materials
loss factor. Additionally, sound transmission loss and
absorption is used to measure and optimize body-in-
white or component treatments. At the Center, Henkel’s
trained team of engineers analyze acoustic material
properties of structures and panels to determine their
effectiveness in automotive, off-road equipment and
appliance applications. With the latest equipment and
software, to perform measurements and analysis, Henkel
Aided Engineering (CAE), Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
and lab testing. Pradhyumna Ingle, Business Director,
General Industry, Henkel India, said: "Henkel anticipates,
responds to and meets customers’ expectations, building
design, ef?ciency and reliability challenges."
Reliance set to start new 2.2
mln mtpa paraxylene plant in
Jamnagar
Reliance Industries
Ltd plans to start
its new 2.2 mln mtpa
paraxylene plant at
Jamnagar in October,
on schedule as
announced earlier this
year. RIL has been
buying PX for its new PTA plants at Dahej, which have
a combined capacity of 2.24 mln mt/year, but with
the new PX plant starting up, the company is likely to
turn into an exporter. It is expected to ship out up to
1 million mt/year of PX.