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NUK Soarnol price increase announcement

At Nippon Gohsei, we take pride in providing our customers with highly advanced Soarnol along with intensive technical support in order to meet expanding R&D requirements. Innovation is our priority and this has continued with the recent introduction of our new generation of products.

Although Soarnol is a speciality chemical, the production cost in recent years has been destabilised by the intense fluctuation of raw material and utility prices.

Consequently, we must proceed with a price increase of EURO/kg 0.30 for all Soarnol products with effect from April 15 2010.

NUK PVOH price increase announcement

As a result of the recent increases in raw material, transport and utility costs, Nippon Gohsei is obliged to announce a price increase for all Gohsenol polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) resins in the European and African markets.

This unavoidable adjustment of 150 Euro per metric ton (or other currency equivalent) will take place with effect from 15th April 2010 or where contracts allow.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact your regular Nippon Gohsei representative.

New technically advanced Polyvinyl Alcohol resin developed for PVAc Adhesive Emulsions now launched!

Nippon Gohsei Central Laboratory in Osaka, Japan has now confirmed commercial status of *Gohsefimer WR – 14* for adhesive polymerisation applications.
*Gohsefimer WR – 14* is a highly modified functional PVOH resin aimed at the PVAc emulsion market for adhesive manufacturers in the woodworking, paper and laminating industries.
	*Gohsefimer WR-14* based emulsions can noticeably observe significant improvements in many characteristics and properties, such as improved water resistance to D3 specification and above, excellent product stability – pre, during and post polymerisation and with a very low acidity level, any wood discoloration is reduced considerably.
Any customer using this grade is no longer required to use a cross – linking agent, as *Gohsefimer WR – 14* can be used as a one component system.
Nippon Gohsei are also proud to confirm *Gohsefimer WR – 14* as a certified raw material for BS EN 204 2001 for D3 adhesion compliance under Sequence 1, 3 and 4 with a superior Pass result in all Sequences.
The compliance testing was recently undertaken by the U.K. industry organisation, FIRA (Furniture Institute Research Association) and their test certificate and result can be viewed hereunder. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader available here)
Click here to view the Test Certificate Click here to view the Test Results
For any additional information and further assistance regarding *Gohsefimer WR – 14* or any of our other PVOH materials, please kindly refer to our dedicated technical website www.gohsenol.com.
We look forward to receiving your enquiries with great interest via the website or via your existing Nippon Gohsei representative. Alternatively, please contact us directly at our European Sales & Marketing Centre;
Email: eurosales@nippon-gohsei.com Tel: Freephone 00800 3854 8800 (from U.K., Ireland and Germany) Tel: 0049 (0)211 3854 880 (from all other countries)

Nippon Gohsei is a RoSPA award winner 2009!

2009 has seen Nippon Gohsei UK Ltd celebrate one of the prestigious RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety awards.
The Silver award was presented at a ceremony at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel to Steve Brook, on behalf of everyone working at Nippon Gohsei UK Ltd.

The ceremony took place alongside of the Safety and Health Expo 2009, Europe’s leading annual health and safety exhibition.

David Rawlins, RoSPA awards manager said: “Nippon Gohsei UK Ltd, have shown a commitment to protecting the health and well being of its employees and others. Entering the RoSPA awards reinforces the message that good health and safety is good for business, and clearly demonstrates an organisations dedication to improving performance in this crucial area.

Steve Brook said he was delighted that Nippon Gohsei had achieved a Silver Award at the company’s very first attempt. “The RoSPA awards are not just about reducing the number of accidents and cases of ill health at work; they help to ensure that organisations have good health and safety management systems in place”. The award also underlines everyone’s safety efforts and the way in which we are all trying to form a safer environment.

In the current economic climate this sort of award is as important as ever because it demonstrates that employers care about their employees and will not let slip the standards of health and safety.

Nippon Gohsei launch unique and innovative new Polymer!

The European Coatings Show (ECS) in Nuremberg, Germany was the event chosen by Nippon Gohsei to introduce to the market their latest new development.

Nichigo G-Polymer is an amorphous vinyl alcohol polymer specifically designed for several application sectors.

Nippon Gohsei are targeting the emulsion, coatings and moulding markets with this newest material and ECS proved to be the perfect platform to do this.
Enhanced properties of Nichigo G-Polymer include excellent water-solubility, dispersability and protective colloid ability. Nichigo G-Polymer also delivers exceptional gas barrier properties and is also classified as biodegradable.
During the 3 day ECS event, Nippon Gohsei were pleased to participate in the Technical Congress associated with the show and an introductory presentation was given by Mr. Shusaku Mandai, a leading technical member of Nippon Gohsei’s highly knowledgeable and experienced Central Research Laboratory, who attended the Congress from Japan to give this key note speech.
To learn more about this technically advanced new material, please kindly refer to our dedicated website: www.g-polymer.com
	In addition to Mr Mandai, a further number of representatives from Nippon Gohsei’s Technical Departments joined the exhibition itself to assist the European Sales, Marketing and Technical teams who attended the Nippon Gohsei stand at ECS.

Visitors to the stand were several hundred over the duration of the show, confirming the ever growing interest in Nippon Gohsei and its’ extensive range of speciality polymers, resins and additives.

NIPPON GOHSEI has studied new functional EVOH for various applications

In this presentation, we are going to introduce high performance EVOH
for stretch film application which we have developed.

The multilayer film with this EVOH shows excellent stretchability and
shrinkability.

This EVOH is especially applicable to stretch films or shrink films.

Nippon Gohsei First to Achieve Global Conformity

Nippon Gohsei has successfully completed what is believed to be the first Global Conformity Assessment, under the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), of a Polymer Manufacturing Plant built in Europe. The Directive (PED) has been adopted since 1997, but became mandatory on 29th May, 2002. The Directive helps to remove technical trade barriers by harmonising standards within Europe. Click here for more details.

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