End Markets

Medical

TriMas Acquires Intertech

The global manufacturing company said the addition of the Denver-based customer injection molder will further TriMas Packaging Group’s push into the medical market.

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How to Know the True Value of Conformally Cooled Injection Molds

What’s the return on investing in a new mold with conformal cooling to boost productivity? Will it pay for itself? How soon? Here’s a case study on how to answer those questions.

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Novel LLDPEs Enable Films that Are 'Ahead of Their Time'

ExxonMobil’s new Exceed XP 7 series boasts remarkable mechanical performance combined with low density and fractional melt index.  

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Medical

Award-Winning Thermoformer: Ray Products Focuses on Pressure Forming for Crisp Aesthetics, Part-to-Part Repeatability

Ray Products’ pressure-forming expertise was recognized in the 2021 SPE Thermoforming Gold Award for its multi-part medical cart made with thermoplastics to replace cast urethane.

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Solvent-Based Inks Boost PET Recycling

Sun Chemical’s SunSpectro SolvaWash solvent-based inks allow higher quality and yield of recycled PET from bottles.  

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Medical

Trilogy Plastics Adds Dual-Mill Pulverizer

Company’s new pulverizer doubles powder output for molding operations.  

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sustainability

Coca-Cola Pledges to Use More Refillable Bottles

Coca-Cola says 25% of all its beverages globally will be delivered in returnable/refillable containers by 2030, up from 16% in 2020.

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Logitech Scales-Up Use of Recycled Plastic in Electronic Products

About 65% of mice & keyboards in the company’s largest product portfolio now use post-consumer recycled plastic

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Automotive

Celanese to Acquire DuPont’s Engineering Plastics

Celanese will acquire nearly all of DuPont’s engineering thermoplastics, except for its Delrin, Multibase and Tedlar products.

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Netstal to Offer Accredited Machine Calibrations

The ISO 17025 compliant documentation allows Netstal to perform injection machine calibrations for its customers and issue standard-compliant documentation—requisite for medical molding.

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Process Cooling