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Engel’s Wintec Brand of Injection Molding Machines Starts Distribution in Europe
The line of Chinese-made dual-platen large-scale presses, which launched in 2014, will now be available globally.
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GPD Companies to Acquire European Materials Distributor Distrupol
Acquisition by affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners to form group of leading global value-added materials distributors.
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Barnes Group Names New Head for Molding Solutions Unit
Jessica Poliner has been named president of the unit, which includes Synventive, Thermoplay, männer, FOBOHA, Priamus, and Gammaflux, replacing Norbert Scheid who retired.
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Arkema and Polymer Engineering Develop Blending Technology for Kynar Flex PVDF and Rubber
The capability to blend Kynar Flex PVDF with various types of rubber developed by Arkema and Polymer Engineering results in products that have a range of properties offered by each respective component.
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Freudenberg Medical Adds Six Machines
The Arburg, Wittmann Battenfeld and Toyo machines installed in Baldwin Park, Calif. support component production for in-vitro diagnostic test kits.
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Diversified Plastics Installs Six Vertical Injection Molding Machines
The company added all-electric Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, Niigata and Nissei molding machines to its Minnesota facility in support of medical device customers and other manufacturers.
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New Technology Opens a Predictive Window Onto Screw Wear
Despite their integral role in transforming pellets fed through the hopper into parts ejected from the mold, visibility into the performance, health and efficiency of screws is difficult to discern for many reasons, not the least of which being the fact they’re located inside a barrel.
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Arburg Acquires Drive and Automation Company
The injection molding machine supplier has acquired its long-time development partner and supplier of electric drives, vertically integrating a key capacity.
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Thermoplastic Biomaterial ‘Fine-Tuned’ for Medical Applications
U.K. and U.S. university research team succeed in ‘fine-tuning a type of polyester biomaterial to enable the rate of degradation in the body.
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Braskem Expanding into the 3D Printing Market
In 2020, Braskem launched polypropylene for fused filament fabrication, SLS powder bed fusion, and industrial scale pellet extrusion.
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