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NEWS:
2009
European Food Safety Authority Issues Favorable Opinion on Key Monomer Used in Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (August 18, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Union’s agency responsible for food and feed safety, has issued a favorable opinion that supports the safety of Eastman Tritan™ copolyester. The opinion paves the way for the European Commission to amend Directive 2002/72/EC to add a key monomer used in Tritan to its list of acceptable monomers for the production of plastics intended for use in food packaging.
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Eastman Chemical Company Applications Win Three Awards At International Plastics Design Competition (July 29, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced that two product applications made with Eastman™ copolyesters picked up three awards at the 2009 International Plastics Design Competition held June 24 during NPE2009 in Chicago. The awards, sponsored by the Alliance of Plastics Processors, allowed designers and manufacturers of components and finished products to display their most innovative achievements before tens of thousands of plastics professionals.
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Eastman Chemical Company Provides Customers With Competitive Advantage Through Ingredient Branding Program (June 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company today announced that its customers Key Baby, LLC and Lock&Lock have joined the company’s Ingredient Branding Program. The program, launched in August 2008, helps its customers showcase the competitive advantage of using Eastman Tritan™ copolyester in their products.
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Eastman Chemical Company Announces Blends Based on Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (June 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company, together with PolyOne Specialty Engineered Materials (PolyOne SEM), announced today the launch of a new family of opaque blends based on Eastman Tritan™ copolyester at NPE2009, June 22 to 26, 2009, in Chicago.
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Key Baby Introduces New Infant Care Line Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (June 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that its customer Key Baby, LLC, a manufacturer of infant care products, has introduced a new line of baby bottles and sippy cups approved by world-renowned leader and pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil.
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Eastman Chemical Company Launches Family of Blends Based on Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester for Medical-Housing Market (June 9, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company, together with PolyOne, announced today that it will launch a new family of blends based on Eastman Tritan™ copolyester at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East (MD&M East) trade show June 9 to 11, 2009, in New York.
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Penguin Brands Inc. Introduces New Flip Straw Water Bottle Line Made with Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (May 19, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Penguin Brands Inc. is introducing Nathan Performance Gear™ Flip Straw Pure Bottles, a line of premium reusable water bottles made with Eastman Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester that balances the properties of easy processing, clarity, toughness, and heat and chemical resistance.
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Light My Fire Introduces New Spork Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (April 29, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Light My Fire, a Sweden-based maker of outdoor accessories, has introduced a new Spork product line in its U.S. and Canadian markets.The product line is made with Eastman Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester that balances the properties of easy processing, clarity, dishwasher durability, toughness, and heat and chemical resistance.
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Blackwell Plastics Creates Innovative Frozen Drink Dispenser Part with Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (April 1, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Blackwell Plastics, an injection molding company, has utilized Eastman Tritan™ copolyester to create an innovative frozen drink dispenser faceplate. The new part, used to dispense refreshing, flavored frozen beverages while displaying the product to consumers, is utilized by major restaurant chains nationwide.
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Eastman Chemical Company Announces New Housewares Applications Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (March 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that three of its customers, Hourglass Coffee, Polar Plastech, Inc., and Cox Culinary Emporium (CCE), will introduce new products at the 2009 International Home and Housewares Show (IHHS) from March 22 to 24 in Chicago.
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Cox Culinary Emporium Introduces Line of Serving Products Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (March 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Cox Culinary Emporium (CCE) is introducing a line of serving ware made with Eastman Tritan™ copolyester. Tritan, a new-generation copolyester, balances the properties of clarity, toughness, and heat and chemical resistance.
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Polar Plastech Introduces Beverage Pitcher Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (March 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Polar Plastech, Inc., a high-end plastic technology company, has introduced an innovative plastic beverage system, Polar Pitcher®, made with Eastman Tritan™ copolyester.
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Hourglass Coffee Introduces Brewing System Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (March 23, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Hourglass Coffee, based in Portland, Ore., will use Eastman Tritan™ copolyester in its Hourglass® Cold Brew Coffee System. Eastman Tritan™ offers toughness, dishwasher durability, high-heat and chemical resistance and ease of processing.
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Eastman Chemical Company Launches New Family of Medical-Grade Polymers for the Medical-Device Industry (February 11, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that it will launch a new family of medical-grade polymers at the Medical Design & Manufacturing West trade show Feb. 9 to 12, 2009, in Anaheim, Calif.
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Hawaii Medical Introduces Gumdrop™ Pacifier Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (January 28, 2009)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that its customer, Hawaii Medical, LLC, in Pembroke, Mass., will use Eastman Tritan™ in its GumDrop™ pacifiers.
2008
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Gamila Products Introduces New Teastick Gems Made With Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (December 17, 2008)
Gamila Products chose Eastman Tritan™ for its toughness and because it offered an alternative to bisphenol-A. Additionally, its design team valued the suppleness and innovative properties of the new copolyester.
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Plaskolite to Manufacture Mustang™ Sheet Using Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (November 4, 2008)
Eastman Chemical Company has signed an agreement with Plaskolite Inc. to exclusively cooperate in the pursuit of new markets in North America for extruded plastic sheet using new Eastman Tritan™ copolyester.
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Thermos Introduces New Hydration Bottle Made with Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (October 21, 2008)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that its customer Thermos L.L.C., a global manufacturer of innovative food and beverage containers, has introduced a new type of hydration bottle as part of its Thermos® Intāk™ product line.
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Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester Helps Meet Infant Care Product Demands (October 2, 2008)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that brand owners, product designers and molders in the infant care market can now achieve greater design flexibility and provide consumers with enhanced product performance by using Eastman Tritan™ copolyester for products like baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups.
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Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester Receives Favorable Opinion from Health Canada (August 7, 2008)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Eastman Tritan™ copolyester received a favorable opinion for use in contact with food from the Food Directorate of Canada’s federal health department, Health Canada.
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Cool Gear Introduces New EZ Freeze Free™ Water Bottle Line Made with Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (June 26, 2008)
Cool Gear recently partnered with Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.) to introduce the EZ FREEZE FREE™ premium product line of beverage bottles manufactured using Eastman Tritan™ copolyester.
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New Aladdin Water Bottle Offers Improved Quality and Performance with Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (March 27, 2008)
Aladdin®, a division of Pacific Market International (Seattle, WA) and maker of a wide range of popular insulated food and beverage storage products, recently partnered with Eastman Chemical Company to develop and manufacture the CLEAN & CLEVER WATER BOTTLE™ product line using new Eastman Tritan™ copolyester.
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Eastman Expanding Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester Capacity (March 13, 2008)
Eastman Chemical Company announced today it is investing in commercial scale operations that will expand production capacity for Eastman Tritan copolyester products at its facility in Kingsport, Tenn. The expansion project, expected to be completed by late 2009, includes both the construction of new manufacturing facilities as well as conversion of some existing operations.
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Eastman To Showcase New Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester At 2008 International Home & Housewares Show (February 14, 2008)
Visitors to the show will learn how major brand owners in the appliance and consumer/commercial housewares sectors have begun to utilize Tritan to improve their product lines. Attracted by the material’s durability and design versatility, showcased brands include: CamelBak, a leading provider of hydration systems; Vita-Mix, a top producer of high-end blending equipment; and Carlisle Food Service Products, a leading provider of food service supplies for the restaurant and hospitality industries.
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Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester Delivers a New Level of Product Performance for Appliance Market (December 12, 2007)
Eastman Tritan combines the clarity, toughness and chemical resistance advantages of traditional copolyesters with higher heat resistance, improved design flexibility and ease of processing. By enabling unique product designs and performance advantages, this optimal balance of properties can allow appliance brands to better differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
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Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester Provides Differentiated Performance for Commercial and Consumer Housewares (November 28, 2007)
Ideal for a range of molded housewares applications, including food storage containers, plastic utensils and barware, and sports bottles, Tritan combines the clarity, toughness and chemical resistance of traditional copolyesters with higher heat resistance and faster processing.
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Eastman Chemical Company Launches New Polymer (October 24, 2007)
Eastman Chemical Company announces the launch of Eastman Tritan copolyester, a new-generation copolyester that is ideal for a broad range of applications, including housewares, appliances and sheet applications.
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All About Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (October 24, 2007)
Dr. Gregory O. Nelson, Executive Vice President and Polymers Business Group Head at Eastman Chemical Company, discusses the company’s latest material development.
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Vita-Mix Enhances Blender Container Performance With New Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (October 24, 2007)
Vita-Mix Corporation, a top producer of high-end kitchenware blending equipment for household and commercial use, has partnered with Eastman Chemical Company to manufacture blender containers for the newly developed Vita-Mix 5200 using Eastman Tritan copolyester.
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Camelbak Improves Water Bottle Convenience and Performance Using New Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (October 24, 2007)
CamelBak Products, LLC (Petaluma, CA), the leading provider of hydration systems for consumer, government and industrial applications, recently partnered with Eastman Chemical Company to manufacture the CamelBak® Better Bottle product line using new Eastman Tritan copolyester.
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Carlisle Enhances Performance and Production Efficiency of Commercial Soup Bowls Using New Eastman Tritan™ Copolyester (October 24, 2007)
Carlisle Food Service Products, a leading provider of food service supplies for the restaurant and hospitality industries, has partnered with Eastman Chemical Company to manufacture its line of commercial soup bowls using new Eastman Tritan copolyester. |
