by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 18, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Medical, North America
NPE2018 brings together all industry sectors, including vertical and peripheral markets, end markets, brand owners and recyclers. Held every three years, it attracts more than 65,000 plastics professionals and features industry-focused education and leading suppliers...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 30, 2018 | Business, Consumer, Daily News, Injection Molding, Medical, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Tool & Die
El Cajon, California – March 23rd, 2018 – Westfall Technik has added a premier plastics processing business to its design, prototyping and toolmaking capabilities in the Southwest. AMS Plastics, Inc. has been acquired by Westfall Technik, Inc., a recently formed...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 26, 2018 | Daily News, Global, Medical, Polymer Science
An international research team led by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and IBM Research developed a synthetic molecule that can kill five deadly types of multidrug-resistant bacteria...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 16, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Global, Injection Molding, Medical
The global Molecular Diagnostics market is expected to reach High Billion by 2022, growing at a double digit CAGR between 2017 and 2022. The demand for Molecular Diagnostics is anticipated to grow exponentially during the forecasting period driven by advantages such...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Daily News, Global, Medical, Performance Plastics
Different materials behave differently, to state the obvious. Consequently, appropriate tools should be used to evaluate the behavior of materials in a potential application and, ideally, deliver insights on their performance over time. By evaluating polymer stents...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 27, 2018 | Daily News, Film Extrusion, Medical, North America, Packaging
At MD&M West 2018, Nelipak Healthcare Packaging showed how a collaborative robot could help medical device packaging professionals automate certain steps in the heat sealing process. In Nelipak’s booth, Rethink Robotics’s Sawyer robot loaded trays and lidding...
