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From Printer to High-End Extruder: Colormasters Sets Sights on Collation Film

When long-established printing and converting company Colormasters was putting together a strategic plan for growth, it added blown film processing to the mix.

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Medical

Slower Growth for Medical Market

If there were ever a recession-proof industry, it would be medical.

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Automotive

APPLICATIONS: Ultra-High-Flow TPV Enables Thinner Instrument Panels

TPV with an exceptional high melt flow rate simplified the deployment of soft, injection moldable instrument panel skins across global platforms for the 2014 Nissan Sentra.

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Drying

Automotive molder seeks flexible solution for diverse drying needs

Clear, amber or red; headlights, taillights and turn signals: those are just some of the constantly changing jobs that custom automotive molder TASUS pulls in and out of its presses, requiring a flexible drying system to handle the ever-changing run list.

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Plastics Color Expands

Plastics Color is expanding its headquarters plant by 40% which will boost capacity for color concentrates, compounds, and functional masterbatches before year's end.

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Automotive

Ultra-High-Flow TPV Enables Thinner Instrument Panels

Asahi Kasei's ultra-high-flow TPV simplified the deployment of soft, injection moldable instrument panel skins across global platforms for the 2014 Nissan Sentra.

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Packaging

ADDITIVES: A.Schulman Acquires Prime Colorants

To grow its custom color capabilities, A.Schulman, Akron, Ohio, has made yet another acquisition, of color and additive concentrates maker Prime Colorants, Franklin, Tenn.

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ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: Slew of New Developments in Materials, Equipment

Three companies unveiled new developments in additive manufacturing and prototyping as 2013 came to a close, a testament to this technology's vibrant growth.

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Biopolymers

APPLICATIONS: High-Heat PLA in World's First Bioplastic Touchscreen Computer

The high-heat-resistant PLA compound used for the housing of the first bioplastic touchscreen computer is based on lactides from Corbion Purac.

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Medical

Coming Up: LSR That Sticks to More Thermoplastics

A next-generation self-adhesive LSR will bond to additional engineering thermoplastics.

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Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction