by plastics editor | Sep 19, 2017 | Automotive, Daily News, Injection Molding, Medical, Packaging
At Fakuma’s 25th anniversary trade show and exhibition, held October 17 to 21 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Milacron Holdings Corp. (Cincinnati, OH) will pull out all the stops to display what it calls the most comprehensive global product offering in the plastics...
by plastics editor | Sep 18, 2017 | Business, Daily News, Medical
Do you care about healthcare? You bet you do. A Gallup poll from July 2017 asked a cross-section of the U.S. population to name the most important problem facing the United States today. Number one was dissatisfaction with government, at just under 20% of responses....
by plastics editor | Sep 14, 2017 | Daily News, Medical, Packaging, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials
Growth in flexible packaging continues, with one of the more intriguing subsegments the development of a type of packaging that a few years ago didn’t seem possible: child-resistant pouches and bags. There are now CR options applicable for medical, chemical and other...
by plastics editor | Sep 14, 2017 | Automotive, Daily News, Medical, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials
Among the technologies to be presented by Hexpol TPE at the upcoming Fakuma show in Germany will be Dryflex Thermoplastic Elastomers for automotive interior applications such as floor mats, cup holder liners, fascia mats and HVAC components. These compounds are...
by plastics editor | Sep 12, 2017 | Daily News, Extrusion, Injection Molding, Medical, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials
Antimicrobial polymer additive technology Nouvex received approval this week from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Antimicrobial Division, as a material preservative. Clinically proven to be effective against bacteria as well as...
by plastics editor | Sep 8, 2017 | Daily News, Medical, Plastics Materials
If you start your workday, as I do, by checking your “plastics” newsfeed, you would have been bombarded the last couple of mornings with articles about a study showing that plastic particles are in our tap water. A global study carried out by Orb Media , an...
