Qualified and talented employees are essential to a company’s success. Every year companies are striving to keep these employees through innovative human resources practices. Those companies that do it the best have been named a National Best and Brightest Companies to Work For winner for 2013. This year, among 100 others, Kuraray America, Inc. was [...]
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National Association for Business Resources Names Kuraray America, Inc. one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For™ in the Country
November 26, 2013
Kuraray to Acquire DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls
November 21, 2013
Kuraray and DuPont today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for DuPont to sell Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls (GLS/Vinyls), a part of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, to Kuraray for US$543 million, plus the value of the inventories. The sale is expected to close during the first half of 2014 pending customary regulatory approvals. GLS/Vinyls [...]
Read More...Kuraray Announces Strategic Partnership with Vitriflex
October 29, 2013
Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Fumio Ito) has completed a strategic investment and launched a strategic alliance with Vitriflex, Inc. (Headquarters: San Jose, California, USA; President & CEO: David R. Parker). Vitriflex develops ultra-barrier films for use in solar and display applications. Kuraray selected Vitriflex for this joint venture due to the long-term [...]
Read More...Kuraray Kicks Off K Show with Innovative Products
October 17, 2013
Kuraray will showcase a variety of new and innovative projects at the K Show this week and next, from October 16-23. The K Show is the largest global gathering of plastics, elastomer and coating industries. Kuraray can be found in Hall 7, D06. Visitors will see the latest materials from Kuraray including bio-based polymers, barrier [...]
Read More...Kuraray TROSIFOL Obtains PPG Certifications for Sungate® and Solarband® Architectural Flat Laminated Glass
August 27, 2013
) Kuraray’s TROSIFOL PVB films have been approved by PPG Industries as a Certified Interlayer. This prominent designation recognizes TROSIFOL’s knowledge and product quality in architectural laminated glass constructions. PPG Industries offers accredited certifications to glass producers and laminators. In TD-512 and TD-514, PPG added seven TROSIFOL interlayers to their approved list. The new interlayers [...]
Read More...Kuraray to be honored as the La Porte-Bayshore Chamber of Commerce’s Salute to Industry Winner
August 19, 2013
La PORTE, Texas–Kuraray will be honored as the 2013 Salute to Industry honoree by the La Porte-Bayshore Chamber of Commerce in September. Kuraray’s two plants in the Bayshore area, SEPTON and EVAL, along with the under-construction Poval plant, have been active in the La Porte and Bayshore community. “We’re thrilled to have Kuraray as our [...]
Read More...Kuraray EH&S Specialist Wins Texas Chemical Council Award
July 9, 2013
With great excitement, Kuraray is pleased to announce that Sheryl Kuhfeldt was the winner of the 2013 EHS Seminar Committee Award winner of the year. Kuhfeldt was selected due to her long-standing commitment to the Occupational Safety Committee team, with membership for over thirteen years. The award was presented at the TCC/ACIT Annual Awards Banquet [...]
Read More...Kuraray to Expand Monosol, LLC Facilities
June 12, 2013
Kuraray Co. Ltd.announced today the expansion of its facilities in LaPorte, Indiana at the recently acquired Monosol, LLC facilities. This expansion is in response to the active demand for PVOH films for consumer goods and industrial applications like single-use pouches for detergents. Facility Expansion Background Kuraray has decided that facilities need to be expanded in [...]
Read More...Kuraray EVAL to Present at AMI Agricultural Film 2013 on September 16-18, 2013
May 29, 2013
Edgard Chow, Technical Service and Development Manager of Kuraray America, Inc. will present at the upcoming AMIAgricultural Film 2013 Conference. The conference will take place from the 16-18 September 2013 at the Hotel Meliá Castilla in Madrid, Spain. Agricultural Film 2013 discusses industry issues and presents research findings and possible solutions to the problems faced [...]
Read More...Kuraray EVAL will be presenting at the AMI Multilayer Packaging Film Conference in June
May 8, 2013
Kuraray’s EVAL group will attend and present at the AMI Multilayer Packaging Film Conference being held on June 5 and 6th. The conference focuses on solutions for current technical and commercial issues including new films and materials, interlayer adhesion, practical applications of nanotechnology, biodegradable barrier films, production technology (such as coextrusion and coating), applications and [...]
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