End Markets

Postprocessing

Polymer Fusion Labeling with Antimicrobial Agent for Medical & HazMat Equipment

Mold In Graphics and its Polyfuze Graphics’ new proprietary line of antimicrobial containing products exceed labeling standards for Medical, Food Service, Reusable Packaging and Health Industries. 

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How One Machine Builder Helps Fight the Coronavirus

Sidel converted its main stretch-blow molding development center to a production of PET hand-sanitizer bottles.

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Thermoforming

Tessy Plastics Initiates Face Shield Manufacturing to Help Combat Covid-19

The New York based injection molder collaborated with Onondaga County, Syracuse University, Tool-All, Dynamic Pak, Protolabs and others to quickly ramp up production.  

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Testing

Extrusion: Measure Optical Distortion in Sheet in Real Time

Osprey 9 CW enables real-time, continuous inspection and measurement of continuous product, identifying and quantifying all types of optical distortion over the entire web of PC and acrylic sheet before cutting.

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polystyrene

Prices of Volume Resins Flat to Down

Key drivers for the trajectory of resin prices include supply outpacing demand, lower feedstock costs, and uncertainty about coronavirus effects.

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Medical

Solvay Partners with Boeing for Coronavirus Face Shields

Solvay’s Ajedium Films 大象传媒 to produce the medical-grade, sterilizable, transparent Radel PPSU or Udel PSU films. 

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Surging Demand for Hand-Sanitizer Dispensers Keeps Molding Machines Busy

Grab a squirt of hand sanitizer—who’s molding that dispenser?

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Biopolymers

Coronavirus Spurs Nonprofit Startup to Develop World's First Compostable N95 PLA Masks

THRIVE Masks aims to produce meltblown PLA masks in the U.S. through Kickstarter campaign.

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Medical

New Product ID Technologies For Industry, Retail & Recycling

Confirming material composition and manufacturing source, anti-counterfeiting, waste sorting, and retail check-out scanning may all get a boost from new ID technologies.

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Medical

Prent Designs, Forms, Delivers Face Shields to Medical Workers

And all this took just 48 hr. Company will continue making face shields into foreseeable future.

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Process Cooling