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Want to hire medical device experts? Better take a number—or learn how to jump the queue
By Paul Sturgeon
Published: February 17th, 2011
Published: February 17th, 2011
Don’t believe the unemployment statistics. To hire a medical device expert, you may need to invest a lot of time and effort . . . and you still might fail. But there are ways to improve your odds.
Specialty plastics help device makers get ahead of patient safety regulations, trends
By Tom O'Brien and...
Published: February 17th, 2011
Published: February 17th, 2011
The RoHS lead replacement exemption is likely to end soon. The public and insurers are focusing more on hospital-acquired infections. Can specialty plastics help device makers cope? In a word, yes.
Taking total control, achieving total success
By Tony Deligio
Published: March 3rd, 2011
Published: March 3rd, 2011
Founded by an entrepreneur so displeased with the quality of the fittings he was being supplied that he launched a business to make them himself, Value Plastics approaches its 45th year in business still believing that the best place to find great products and services is within its own walls.
Mr. Johnson, plastics processor, goes to Washington
By Clare Goldsberry
Published: March 3rd, 2011
Published: March 3rd, 2011
In the November 2010 midterm elections, Ron Johnson, owner and president of Pacur Inc. and a Republican politician, beat out Wisconsin’s three-term Democratic senator, Russ Feingold. Until he was elected, there were no manufacturers sitting in the Senate, but Sen. Johnson hopes to use his experience running a plastic sheet and roll stock extrusion business to drive change in the federal government.
MPW: What was the driving force behind your decision to run for the Senate against a seasoned and popular politician such as Russ Feingold?
Plastic bag backlash: Can recycling programs beat back anti-bag fervor?
By MPW Staff
Published: March 10th, 2011
Published: March 10th, 2011
North Carolinians are being encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle their plastics grocery bags, with the state becoming the fourth in the U.S. to join the "A Bag's Life" recycling education movement. The program helps consumers find the roughly 1200 grocery and retail store drop off sites for plastic bags across North Carolina.
Plastics packaging: Foaming process cut costs in rigid PS sheet
By Matt Defosse
Published: March 23rd, 2011
Published: March 23rd, 2011
Matt's take: Polystyrene supplier Styron introduced its CO2RE foaming technology to great fanfare last fall. The process uses carbon dioxide as a physical foaming agent during extrusion of rigid PS sheet, the kind of sheet that often is then thermoformed for dairy and food service applications. PlasticsToday caught up with John Case, Styron's global marketing manager for packaging and consumer goods, to get an update on the process and to add some detail to the original announcement so you can decide if this is a technology you might consider licensing.
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