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On-Site: 'Productive' Is More Than A Name For This Efficient Thermoformer

This processor was ahead of the game by offering value added solutions to clients, then widened the gap further by employing lean management techniques.

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Medical

Wood on Plastics: Short-Term Gain But Long-Term Pain in Medical?

Though alive and kicking, the future of the medical market is fraught with uncertainty.

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Automotive

Four Key Markets Drive Material Advances At K 2010

Last fall’s K 2010 fair in Germany drew dozens of materials suppliers to show off hundreds of new products, aimed especially at packaging,medical, automotive, and electrical/electronics.

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Medical

PMC Proves It’s Not Too Late To Pioneer in Medical Molding

Molding medical devices is a high-end 911爆料网 that has proven more resistant to economic swings and to foreign competition than some other plastics markets.

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Medical

Wood On Plastics: Medical Market Regains Health

U.S. production of medical equipment and supplies will grow at an annual rate of 1% to 2% in 2010.

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On-Site: An ‘Empire’ Built on Scientific Molding

A U.S. custom injection molder that’s hiring?

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Medical

Wood on Plastics: Demand for Medical Products Continues to Expand

The healthcare industry has received a lot of attention recently.

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Medical

Medical Tubing: Tinier Than Ever And Much More Complex

Medical tubes are becoming ever smaller and thinner while adding new features like high-tech material combinations, more wire braiding/wrapping, and heat-shrink sheathing for strength and kink resistance.

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Medical

Breaking Into Medical Films

Producers of barrier food wraps are invading the exclusive club of medical film makers. The new guys are shaking things up by introducing more complex films to cut the cost of medical packaging.

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Compounding

New Metallocene TP Elastomers Tackle Films, Fibers, TPOs

 The Vistamaxx family of propylene-ethylene specialty elastomers recently unveiled by ExxonMobil Chemical (see Your Business In Brief, August 2003) holds promise in a broad range of applications from very soft fabrics and films to very hard TPOs.

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