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Automotive

Trinseo Expands into Soft-Touch Polymers Through Acquisition

Italy's API has a broad portfolio including TPEs, TPUs, EVA-based compounds, two component PU, as well as bioplastics.

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Packaging

NAFTA Modernization Supported by North American Plastics Industry

Three major trade groups announce list of priorities for plastics in upcoming negotiations.

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Automotive

Canadian, Mexican and U.S. Plastics Organizations Meet to Modernize NAFTA

The heads of PLASTICS, CPIA and ANIPAC met this week in Mexico City to reexamine the trade deal 24 years after it passed and before President Trump focuses on it.

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Construction

May’s Index: 56

Industry has grown steadily over last six months.

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Medical Molder Sweats the Small Stuff to Deliver Big Results

Embracing lean manufacturing and scientific molding keeps Freudenberg Medical on top of customer demands for defect-free deliveries as it expands into full device manufacturing, 100% automated inspection, and 3D-printed tooling for quicker product launches.

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Construction

Reports: U.S. Plastics Equipment Shipments Continue to Slip; Germany Forecasts Growth

Shipments of primary plastics equipment in the first quarter were 7.5% lower year over year, marking three straight quarters of contraction for the North American plastics machinery sector.

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Construction

VIDEO: Walk the Halls of Chinaplas 2017

Take a look inside the halls at the record-breaking Chinaplas 2017, held in May in Guangzhou.

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Medical

EXTRUSION: Planetary Cutter Offers More Precision for Medical Tubing

Secondary off-line finishing is said to be all but eliminated.

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Mold Maintenance

How Serious Is Freudenberg Medical About Lean Manufacturing?

One employee I met there helped his daughter undertake a Kaizen event on her closet.

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Aurora Plastics Acquires Canada's Reinier Plastics

U.S. PVC compounder expands custom PVC compounding capabilities via acquisition.

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