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At The Battery Show North America, Ascend Performance Materials will feature its new flame-retardant nylons for EV safety applications and its Trinohex® Ultra electrolyte additive, which improves lithium-ion battery safety, extends cycle life and boosts performance. Safer, higher-performance battery chemistry Ascend, a fully integrated producer of performance materials, will showcase its Trinohex Ultra electrolyte additive; now REACH-registered…

Ascend Performance Materials’ Trinohex® Ultra is now the first and only high-purity 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile to be China REACH-registered, making the performance-boosting lithium-ion battery electrolyte additive available for use in the world’s largest battery market. “China is at the forefront of lithium-ion battery production and we look forward to helping produce safer, longer-lasting and better-performing…

Ascend Performance Materials is showcasing its latest materials for e-mobility at the Battery Show Europe this week. Among the products Ascend is exhibiting are a new color-stable grade of its Starflam® flame-retardant polyamides; its new Vydyne® AVS for damping noise, vibration and harshness; and Trinohex® Ultra, its REACH-registered electrolyte additive. Ascend has developed a color-stable orange grade of […]

Ascend Performance Materials has completed its purchase of Formulated Polymers Limited, an engineered materials producer based in Chennai, India. The acquisition establishes Ascend’s first production facility in South Asia. “The team at FPL has a 30-year track record of serving customers throughout the subcontinent with high-performance compounds,” said Dharm Vahalia, Ascend’s managing director for India. […]

Ascend Performance Materials’ Trinohex® Ultra is now REACH-registered and available across the European Union. “The demand for safe, reliable and longer-lasting batteries will only increase as we continue to shift toward e-mobility and renewable energy,” said Dave McNeece, sustainable specialties senior business manager at Ascend. “In many ways, Europe is at the forefront of adopting these technologies […]

New Peloton technology to support Chevron in the automation of data management to optimize the visualization of vital well geometry and operational data Peloton, the global leader in software solutions for the E&P industry, announced today that Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the U.S., has licensed Peloton’s cloud-based Peloton Platform solution for Well Data Management. […]

Ascend Performance Materials has reached an agreement to acquire the compounding division of Formulated Polymers Limited, a leading engineered materials manufacturer in Chennai, India. This acquisition will establish Ascend’s first manufacturing base in the subcontinent and strengthen Ascend’s global reach in the electrical and e-mobility application space. The deal includes a world-scale manufacturing facility in […]