The new compounds are primarily intended for automotive applications such as window trims and sealing profiles made of EPDM with molded corner joints and end elements made of TPE.
First, Wilmington designed a plastic pallet to customer requirements that was cost effective to produce and then it built the appropriate molding system.
Large hybrid machines with clamping forces ranging from 560 to 1,300 tons will be manufactured at the Japanese injection machine builder’s third overseas manufacturing site.
“We had what you might call a banner year in 2017,” said Diversified Plastics’ Joni Davis, and the company forecasts “healthy growth” going forward. It will do so without the leadership of CEO Jim Dow, however, who retired earlier this year at age 81.
By putting the needs of customers, employees and the community first, company founders Bob and Helen Hoffer believed that successful business and financial results would follow. They were right.
Pete O’Neill, Executive Director at Cleveland Clinic Innovations and acting CEO of Custom Orthopaedic Solutions (Cleveland, OH), explains how 3D printing is helping his company develop and manufacture patient-specific stents that improve on existing designs.
