End Markets
Dow to Throttle Back PE Production in the Americas
Dow is idling three PE plants and two elastomer plants to address supply/demand imbalance, exacerbated by the coronavirus impact/
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Tooling Tech Supplied Thermoform Tooling for Hospital Bed Production in Support of Coronavirus Relief
Tooling Tech was able to go from design to finished tool in less that the two-week delivery requested by Kruger for Emergency & Disaster Relief Beds in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
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Lubrizol Materials and Expertise in Healthcare Support Coronavirus Needs
Specialty TPU manufacturer Lubrizol is helping improve patient outcomes with its materials and expertise in medical equipment and drug products.
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Ohio Molder Joins Statewide Consortium to Combat Covid-19
Pragmatic Manufacturing put its new Wittmann Battenfeld molding cells to work as part of an effort to produce and deliver more than 1 million face shields for front-line health care workers in Ohio in just five weeks.
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Bockatech and Westfall Technik Solidify EcoCore Foam Core Technology License Deal
Westfall Technik to promote use of EcoCore PP foam core technology in the U.S. to create new opportunities for more sustainable lightweight single-use and reusable packaging.
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Metro Mold & Design Fast Tracks Face Shield Tool
The new mold was fabricated in just nine days compressing what’s normally a 6- to 8-week process.
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Additives: Flow Enhancer for Nylons, PPA, PBT and PLA
CAI Performance Additives’ ST-PA9 flow enhancer shown to dramatically increase MFI of nylon, PBT, PPA compounds and looks promising for PLA formulations.
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Additives: VOC Extraction Additive Masterbatch for PP, TPO
CAI Performance Additives LDV-1035T boasts ‘permanent’ removal of VOCs during compounding eliminating odors in filled PP and TPO compounds.
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Mack Helps Convert Snorkeling Mask into Much-Needed PPE
A former employee connection, the need for a tight turnaround and a desire to use existing filtration—how Mack Molding’s Synectic redesigned a snorkeling mask into Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
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Inhance Technologies’ Barrier Packaging Recognized as Fully Recyclable by APR and PRE
The Enkase technology imparts a permanent barrier that can be applied to HDPE containers and reportedly protects the product integrity by reducing ingredient loss and increasing shelf life and quality, while maintaining recyclability.
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