MARFRAN, manufacturer of TPE/TPO SBS and SEBS-based compounds, has appointed Sara Franciosi as its new sales and marketing manager, as part of its programme to strengthen its corporate organisation. With more than twenty years of experience, she has developed strategic and operational skills in foreign commercial management in various sectors, including automotive and industrial, which
Do you know that in addition to the traditional styrene based #TPE-S and #TPO, MARFRAN can offer many other types of TPE compounds? For example, let’s explore what acrylic TPE can offer. The acrylic-based TPEs are extremely interesting for many complementary characteristics to the traditional styrene-based TPE-S: ▪ Very high transparency ▪ High surface gloss
MARFRAN has established since 2024, in accordance with the core principles of Lean manufacturing, weekly Plant meetings directly at the production area with dedicated visual workstation, involving all the functions that govern and actively contribute to the management of the operations. This is a concrete example of Shopfloor Management, synthesis and evident application of the
Thermoset silicone has always been considered one of the materials of choice for the fabrication of medical devices and components for healthcare and personal care due to its undeniable qualities stemming from both its optical and haptic appearance as well as its high temperature resistance and elastic characteristics that result from being a vulcanized rubber.
Access to clean drinking water is a human right. The European Parliament adopted last December the revised Drinking Water Directive (DWD). The new Directive will guarantee safer access to water for all Europeans. At the same time, it will ensure the highest standards in the world for drinking water. It aims at improving consumers’ confidence
The smell is the third stage of our journey through the “5 senses of TPE”. It doesn’t happen rellay often, but sometimes we realize the importance of things only when we notice their absence. This is the case with smell. How should aTPE smell? Basically, it should have no smell. For this reason, the olfactory
The sight is the second stage of our journey through “The 5 senses of TPE”. In the sensory evaluation of a product, sight helps to identify different features that distinguish what we are seeing. Through this sense it is possible to perceive whether a surface is transparent, semi-transparent, translucent or opaque. MARFRAN offers
Is it possible to detect which kind of TPE we hold in our hands without a TDS or lab analysis? In this investigation our senses are our best ally. THE TOUCH The first sense we can rely on is the touch: it can help us feel a velvet or silky surface rather than a
A new partnership between Francesco Franceschetti Elastomeri and Clariant has led to five ski boot colours that will set the trend on the slopes in the coming season. The market research phase started in June 2019 and lasted more than six months. This involved 13 ski equipment retailers, whereby shop managers were interviewed to
We are pleased to invite you to the K 2019 fair, which will take place from the 16th to the 23rd of October at the Dusseldorf exhibition center.
