Medical
Materials: TPEs for Skin and Mouth Contact Safety and Comfort
Kraiburg TPE adds new compounds for the dental and oral hygiene market.
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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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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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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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Solvay Partners with Boeing for Coronavirus Face Shields
Solvay’s Ajedium Films ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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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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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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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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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Industrial-Scale Renewable PP Underway at Borealis' Belgium Plants
While new developments in biobased plastics continue, might the effort to combat Covid-19 lead to some delays and a temporary suspension of bans of single-use ‘virgin’ plastic items?
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