New Mobil/Kobe process key to producing low-cost high performance plastic for film and food packaging.FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1996--Mobil Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MOB) announced today that Mobil Technology Company and Kobe Steel Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所 , Ltd. are jointly developing a new process that promises to lower the cost of producing 2,6 dimethylnaphthalene (2,6 DMN DMN Dimension DMN Dimethylnitrosamine (carcinogen) DMN Data Multiplexing Network DMN Defective Material Notice DMN Discrete Memoryless Network DMN Document Management Number DMN Dynamic Mesh Network DMN Digital Milti-Network ). The 2,6 DMN is a precursor for polyethylene-naphthalate (PEN), a high performance polymer that is finding growing use in film and food packaging applications. Lowering the cost of PEN could also open up new applications for PEN such as returnable plastic bottles. The new Mobil/KOBE process combines Mobil's zeolite zeolite Any member of a family of hydrated aluminosilicate minerals that have a framework structure enclosing interconnected cavities occupied by large metal cations (positively charged ions)—generally sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and barium—and water catalyst technology and a unique Kobe purification technology to produce high purity 2,6 DMN. Economic analyses based on pilot unit studies show that the process is more cost effective than other methods of manufacturing 2,6 DMN. Mobil Technology Company provides leading edge technical expertise and know-how to affiliates of Mobil Corporation as well as third-party licensees. Kobe Steel, Ltd is one of Japan's leading steelmakers and a major supplier of aluminum and copper products, industrial and construction machinery, and plant engineering services. Kobe also has businesses in high technology areas such as electronics, information systems, factory automation and robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions . Contacts: Mobil Corp., Fairfax Mike Kimmit, 703/846-2387 Christopher Springham, 703/846-2500 |
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