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in partnership with JEC Composites E-letter distributor, while bigger players are served directly by DSM Composite Resins. We are also more specific in the level of service we provide to customers. This may mean stepping up our efforts for some customers, while for others it means offering a simpler package. JCM: You have just signed two agreements with Büfa. How do they fit into your overall strategy? M. E.: At the core of all our strategic considerations lies our intention to better serve our customers. Büfa and DSM both focus on developing and marketing specialty products for the composite market. The core competencies of both companies are in innovation, research & development and production. Together, we have created two joint ventures. The first is Euroresins – our pan-European distribution network – and the second is Büfa Gelcoat Plus – a developer and manufacturer of gelcoats, adhesive pigment pastes and fire retardant products. By pooling our resources in these core areas and outsourcing distribution to Euroresins, we can better serve our direct European customers while offering a complete product and service portfolio to the market. JCM: Circumstances are leading Euroresins to play a greater role, so how are tasks distributed? M. E.: We formed the new Euroresins joint venture after we identified a problem in the market, i.e. that large customers are being directly served by principals. However, a significant number of customers (including larger ones) prefer to work with one supplier capable of delivering the complete product and service portfolio (one-stop-shop concept). On the other hand, it is simply not feasible for large principals to deliver their products and services directly to medium-and small-sized customers. Establishing Euroresins provided a solution to both issues. JCM: How would you compare the relative importance of thermoplastic and thermoset resins within Euroresins? M. E.: Euroresins will only focus on the thermoset composite market. We will offer a full range of premium products including fibres, resins, gelcoats, catalysts, tools and ancillaries, etc. Thermoplastics are not part of our plan today. JCM: China is a key market for DSM Composite Resins. What specific activities are you conducting there? M. E.: We continue to invest in Asia through our highly successful Chinese joint venture, Jinling DSM Resins Co. Last year, we massively increased the Nanjing plant output as we seek to refocus on specialty resins in China. Despite the fact that Asia is also feeling the recession, our outlook for the Chinese market remains very strong, and we are almost doubling our local production capacity. This project will be completed by the end of this year. Furthermore, DSM recently opened a new DSM Campus in Shanghai. This new facility will become our local innovation centre in Asia, bringing us closer to our customers and helping us to attract new top talents. Our Sizing and Binder business is also located in this centre. JCM: Are you focusing your efforts on certain specific markets? M. E.: In the field of direct compounding, for example, we have established a strategic cooperation with Dieffenbacher, one of the leading manufacturers of complete system solutions for forming, and with the Fraunhofer Institut Chemische Technologie (applied research and product development up to pilot plant level). This cooperation should enable us to provide the market with a complete technology as early as 2009, combining advanced resins, direct formulations, machine technology and know-how for the automotive industry – both passenger cars and trucks– and other fascinating applications. In general, DSM composite resins will continue to focus on its core competency and goal: to provide innovative and sustainable products to the market. DSM will also continue its efforts to provide high-performance specialty products for high-tech and niche applications. Our main focus will remain on the automotive, tanks, pipes & relining, and infrastructure markets. JCM: Crises can also be a time of opportunity. Do you think that you can use this situation to grow stronger? M. E.: Yes, I do. I believe our commitment to innovation is crucial in the face of the current difficult market conditions. Innovation in itself is a commitment to the industry: by striving to create innovative solutions to ethical and sustainability issues, we ensure the future of the industry and its growth as composites replace less sustainable materials. All the measures we are taking will make us one of the fittest when the global economic crisis comes to an end. JCM: As the head of a key company, do you have a message for the market? M. E.: This crisis can also be a positive period for the composite market. Together as an industry, we should use the obvious advantages of composites and gain market share from metals. Composites are lighter, consume less energy, have lower system costs at lower construction rates (e.g. in passenger cars, trucks), and show higher performance and durability. Our composites should see the crisis as an opportunity rather than a threat. FREE subscription form www.jeccomposites.com/magazine-subscription 26,583 copies total qualified circulation, BPA Worldwide, December issue 2008 No50 July-August 2009 / jec composites magazine 15
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Index
Contents
- NEWS WORLDWIDE -
Companies - Innovation: the guiding principe at Hunstman
Companies - More V: operating on a practically boundless market
Companies - IDI Composites buys former Menzolit facilities
Companies - Colan Australia, threads worth their weight in gold!
Companies - DSM Composite Resins and Büfa: they finalize european joint venture agreements
Agenda of events
Equipment - Custom-coated carbide tools for improved adaptability and lower costs
- BUSINESS -
Market Survey - US demand for decking to reach 1.1 billion lineal metrs in 2013
Trends - Wood-plastic composites: markets, applications and performance costs
Human capital - A PhD student rewarded for his environmental concerns
- FEATURE -
Software - On the way to a high-tech process for high-performance applications
Process - The latest innovations to the LRTM molding process
Application - Large truck mid-roof to be manufactured in Brazil
Application - RTM part for Franch high-speed train
Production - An RTM production line with environmental credentials
Innovations - Plascore PP honeycomb infusion grade for Light RTM
Innovations - RTM compression press for manufacturing body panels
Innovations - Institut fuer Verbundwekstoffe GmbH
- USERS' PLATFORM -
Composites in the world - The Aston Martin One-77
Composites in the world - Cavalier pot
Composites in the world - Carbon fish sculptures
Composites in the world - Glass-fibre-reinforced body camera
Successful partners - An innovative reinforced profile for window frames
Application - MFG: boosting the growth of the wind energy market
Application - Blue Hawaiian Fiberglass Pool: leader in Florida
- KNOW-HOW -
Ductile prepregs - Formable aligned-fibre composite materials
Compound - High-modulus carbon fibres in super-structural compounds
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Index
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Companies - Innovation: the guiding principe at Hunstman
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Companies - More V: operating on a practically boundless market
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Companies - IDI Composites buys former Menzolit facilities
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Companies - Colan Australia, threads worth their weight in gold!
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Companies - DSM Composite Resins and Büfa: they finalize european joint venture agreements
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Agenda of events
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Equipment - Custom-coated carbide tools for improved adaptability and lower costs
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - - BUSINESS -
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Market Survey - US demand for decking to reach 1.1 billion lineal metrs in 2013
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Trends - Wood-plastic composites: markets, applications and performance costs
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Human capital - A PhD student rewarded for his environmental concerns
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Asia Show
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - JCM
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - - FEATURE -
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Software - On the way to a high-tech process for high-performance applications
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Process - The latest innovations to the LRTM molding process
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Application - Large truck mid-roof to be manufactured in Brazil
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Application - RTM part for Franch high-speed train
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Production - An RTM production line with environmental credentials
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Innovations - Institut fuer Verbundwekstoffe GmbH
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - - USERS' PLATFORM -
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Composites in the world - Cavalier pot
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Composites in the world - Glass-fibre-reinforced body camera
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Successful partners - An innovative reinforced profile for window frames
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Application - MFG: boosting the growth of the wind energy market
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Application - Blue Hawaiian Fiberglass Pool: leader in Florida
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - - KNOW-HOW -
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Ductile prepregs - Formable aligned-fibre composite materials
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #50 - July/August 2009 - Compound - High-modulus carbon fibres in super-structural compounds
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