Medical

Minnesota Technical College Expands Its Academic, Equipment Offerings

A medical tubing extrusion line, all-electric injection molding machine, and medical extrusion certificate are the latest additions to Hennepin Technical College (HTC) Plastics Engineering Technology program.

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Medical

ASTM Launches New Plastic Film QA Testing Tool

  An innovative statistical qualitative assurance tool for plastic film testing has been just launched by ASTM International, W.

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Medical

PETG Foam-Core Sheet Cushions Thermoformed Medical Packaging

New option is lighter, cleaner, tougher than HIPS at a comparable price.

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Medical

Engel Shines Spotlight on Liquid Metal Molding

During its triennial symposium in Austria, the machine builder molded medical forceps parts from a novel liquid-metal alloy.

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Construction

Expect Graphene to Make its Mark in Multiple Markets

  There has been a lot of buzz about graphene in recent times and for good reason.  A material stronger and stiffer than carbon fiber, graphene is thought to have enormous commercial potential, but has been impractical to use on a large scale, with researchers limited to using small flakes of the material.

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Medical

COC Used in Unique Crystallization Microplate

Topas's cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) selected for the In-Situ-1, an unusual crystallization microplate by MiTeGen LLC, Ithaca, N.Y.

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Packaging

DuPont's Spin-Off Chemours Launched

As planned a year ago, DuPont has spun off its Performance Chemicals segment into the newly launched Chemours.

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Materials at NPE: New Solutions to Enhance Processing, Performance, Sustainability & Cost

There was no shortage of new thermoplastics and additives covering the full range of end-use applications.

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Medical

What It Takes (And Doesn’t Take) To Be a Medical Molder

Medical molders absolutely must have a clean room and be ISO certified, right? ‘Wrong,’ says Extreme Molding’s Joanne Moon.

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best practices

On-Site: A Big Molder’s Technical Engineering Plus a Small Company’s Customer Service

That’s the formula for rapid growth at a new/old firm serving medical, military, and aviation markets.

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Process Cooling