Medical

Automotive

Clariant Now Offers Custom-Colored Engineering Resins In Smaller Quantities

Company aims to fill the gap as resin companies rationalize product lines.

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Film Extrusion

Cyclic Olefin Copolymer: Alternative Resin For Medical Packaging

With Barex production winding down, processors serving the medical market are eyeing replacements. Some have already commercialized new packages with COC.

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Medical

Thermally-Conductive Thermoplastics to Grow Substantially

Research and Markets' new study analyzes this market by type of plastic, end-use market, and global region.

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Automotive

Savvy Molder Willing To Share Its Smarts

OCTEX adds advanced metrology technology to brand-new lab, and will make it available to other molders.

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Packaging

How to Select and Process High-Density Thermoplastic Materials

Choosing and working with high-density materials requires special knowledge in the areas of applications, mold design, and processing. Here are best practices that should increase your understanding.

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Medical

Medical & Auto Molder Explores New Tech for Tooling & Cooling

Additive manufacturing and liquid-CO2 spot cooling are the firm’s newest tools for boosting productivity and quality.

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Multicomponent

Collaboration in Catheters

Medical Murray has developed innovative catheter technologies by working with its customers and down its supply chain.

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Medical

Advanced Tri-Layer Tubing for Balloon Catheters

Putnam Plastics’ proprietary extrusion process produces tri-layer tubing with improved tensile, burst and elongation properties.

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Medical

PolyOne Acquires Certain TPE Technologies from Kraton

A broader offering of SBC-based TPEs will now be available from PolyOne.

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High-Tech Implant for Leg-Lengthening Treatment by PEEK

Evonik has invested in a start-up company that has developed a high-tech leg-lengthening implant that uses Vestakeep PEEK.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Blending & Dosing