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BASF gets its foot in the door at the Beijing Olympics

Elastollan helps make athletic shoes flexible and light.
BEIJING (August 5, 2008) -- A range of BASF AG products and solutions will be used for a variety of purposes, including for athletic shoes, in this year´s summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the company announced. BASF touts subsidiary Elastogran GmbH’s Elastollan thermoplastic polyurethane as a “key component” in athletic shoes.

Bayer coating cushions Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’

Beijing National Stadium, or ‘Bird’s Nest’
BEIJING (January 22, 2008) -- Bayer MaterialScience AG’s coating systems will be used on a second high-profile Olympic games venue in Beijing: the immense tangle of steel popularly known as the “Bird’s Nest.” The system relies on water as a solvent to disperse coatings resin, which releases fewer volatile organic chemicals and fits with Beijing’s desire for a large “green” Olympics in August. The aim of Bayer’s coating systems includes providing cushioning and resistance to structural damage.

Water Cube structure features ETFE foil membranes

The Water Cube
BEIJING (March 29, 2007) – The organizers of the 2008 Olympic Games claim the city’s spectacular new National Aquatics Center, also dubbed the Water Cube, fully represents the concept of an environmentally friendly Olympics. Additionally, they assert that the building, which consists of more than 100,000 square meters (or 1.08 million square feet) of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene foils, is “the single largest, most complicated and most comprehensive ETFE structure in the world to date.”


  
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