Medical

Thermoforming

Tessy Plastics Initiates Face Shield Manufacturing to Help Combat Covid-19

The New York based injection molder collaborated with Onondaga County, Syracuse University, Tool-All, Dynamic Pak, Protolabs and others to quickly ramp up production.  

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Construction

Prices of Volume Resins Flat to Down

Key drivers for the trajectory of resin prices include supply outpacing demand, lower feedstock costs, and uncertainty about coronavirus effects.

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Medical

Solvay Partners with Boeing for Coronavirus Face Shields

Solvay’s Ajedium Films business to produce the medical-grade, sterilizable, transparent Radel PPSU or Udel PSU films. 

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Surging Demand for Hand-Sanitizer Dispensers Keeps Molding Machines Busy

Grab a squirt of hand sanitizer—who’s molding that dispenser?

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Biopolymers

Coronavirus Spurs Nonprofit Startup to Develop World's First Compostable N95 PLA Masks

THRIVE Masks aims to produce meltblown PLA masks in the U.S. through Kickstarter campaign.

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Additives

New Product ID Technologies For Industry, Retail & Recycling

Confirming material composition and manufacturing source, anti-counterfeiting, waste sorting, and retail check-out scanning may all get a boost from new ID technologies.

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Thermoforming

Prent Designs, Forms, Delivers Face Shields to Medical Workers

And all this took just 48 hr. Company will continue making face shields into foreseeable future.

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polyolefins

Industrial-Scale Renewable PP Underway at Borealis' Belgium Plants

While new developments in biobased plastics continue, might the effort to combat Covid-19 lead to some delays and a temporary suspension of bans of single-use ‘virgin’ plastic items?

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Medical

Wittmann Battenfeld to Remain Operational During Covid-19 Crisis

Initially facing a forced shutdown, Wittmann Battenfeld—and many of the plastics manufacturers it supplies—were deemed essential and allowed to remain open.

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Facing Partial Shutdown, Tessy Plastics Pays Out $2000 Per Employee

As operations in New York and Pennsylvania are impacted by government enforcement of shutdowns, Tessy issued the checks to nearly 1100 employees.

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