Penn State Behrend engineering student Kaitlin Wolf aspires to design and develop medical plastic devices in the health-care industry. The 21-year-old senior from Buffalo will be among an inaugural class of six Behrend students scheduled to ...
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American and European plastics firms are stepping up their investments in medical manufacturing in China, as that country undertakes a major expansion of its health-care system. The investments are driven both by global medical-device ...
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Nanolayer extrusion technology is moving at breakneck speed. In blown film, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., recently discussed patent-pending technology for producing film structures with 100+ layers, while BBS Corp., Spartanburg, S. ...
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Italy's financial problems are having an impact on plastics machinery suppliers. Most of the large delegation of Italian plastics firms that had planned to attend Thailand's Tiprex trade show pulled out after Italy canceled government ...
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Use of commercial purging compounds (CPCs) has become an integral and even more vital part of thermoplastic processing. CPCs have proven to be invaluable tools for addressing market factors such as heavier reliance on just-in-time ...
Custom extrusion firm Pexco LLC has struck again in the mergers and acquisitions market, this time agreeing to buy custom profile extruder AllWest Plastics Inc. Of Huntington Beach, Calif., for an undisclosed sum. It the third deal in the ...
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Krauss Maffei Extrusion of Munich Germany, (a world leader in plastics machinery) new 36D single venting twin-screw extruder series developed in conjunction with Wavin N. V (one of Europe`s largest Pipe producers) has been enthusiastically ...
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A new device for compounders offers to boost the feed rate and throughput of low-bulk-density materials. Called Feed Enhancement Technology (FET) and developed by Coperion (U. S. Office in Ramsey, N. J. ), it was on display at last fall's K ...
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