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The move to the last and largest of four new plants is now done Since 2018, KraussMaffei has invested around 200 million euros in four new plants in Germany and China The new factories are another milestone in modernizing the 185-year-old engineering group The modern sites enable greater efficiency and…

The development of safe and effective medical devices has been the industry’s top priority. According to the World Health Organization, there are over two million different types of medical devices on the global market, each of which belongs to a specific generic device group. These devices are used in therapeutic…

Teknor Apex is excited to announce the new Monprene® S3 CP-15170 BLK, an eco-conscious thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) made with 35% sustainable content that includes UBQ™ and post-consumer recycled material. UBQ™ is a sustainable plastic substitute converted entirely from organic and unrecyclable waste.  Biobased and highly recyclable, UBQ™ offers a climate-positive solution towards a…

(Trexel, Inc., Wilmington, MA July 25, 2022)…  MuCell Extrusion, LLC has granted Trexel rights to offer MuCell technology to the Extrusion Blow Molding market, effective immediately. Trexel has long offered solutions to applications in Automotive Blow Molding, but until now has been restricted from participating in the extrusion blow molding market beyond automotive…

ST BlowMoulding was established in 1980, and today, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, we are pleased to dedicate a thought to those who took part in its history. It has been 40 years of goals, choices and sometimes daring changes, constant commitment and a lot of satisfaction. One…

Visual defects on plastic pellets, like black specks or discolorations, do not affect the functionality of the final product itself but its optic. Ultimately, the size of a contamination determines if it is still visible after the melting of the material. Metallic contamination, however, always poses a risk for plastic…

Sky Plastic becomes PreZero Polymers. Welcoming the recycling specialist into the unified brand identity successfully completes their integration into the globally active waste disposal and recycling company PreZero. The Sky Plastic Group had already been taken over by the Schwarz Group’s environmental services provider with retroactive effect to 1 January…

In order to enhance its support for the medical industry, Wacker Chemical Corporation (WACKER) has extended its partnership with H.M. Royal to include SILPURAN®, WACKER’s exclusive line of liquid silicone rubber (LSR) and high consistency rubber (HCR) specifically dedicated to medical applications. H.M. Royal has been a distributor of other…

Materials supplier Sabic says it intends to boost production capacity for its specialty Noryl SA9000 resin to support rapid growth of high-performance printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in 5G base stations and high-speed servers. It is anticipated that this latest expansion, which builds on 2019 increases, will nearly double regional production in…

To support rapid growth in surface protection applications, US materials supplier Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, says it has made a variety of investments in its thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) business globally. These investments extend the company’s capabilities in surface protection and paint protection film (PPF). PPFs are used to maintain…