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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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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 & 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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Collaboration in Catheters

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

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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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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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Medical

Novel Class of Super-High-Elongation Silicones for Molding

Gelest's "revolutionary" two-component silicone elastomer is aimed at microfluidics and implantable medical devices, with LSR versions underway.

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Construction

Novel Process Opens Up Vast Landscapes for Biobased Materials

DuPont and ADM develop new process to make high-purity fructose derivative for conversion to biobased chemicals and materials.

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Thermoforming

U.S. High-Melt-Strength PP Tackles Wide Range of Applications

Total’s new HMS-PP signals both increased interest in the material and a source of domestic production.

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