Trelleborg Sealing Solutions (Fort Wayne, IN) has finalized the acquisition of Sil-Pro LLC (Delano, MN), a privately owned contract manufacturer of high-tolerance silicone and thermoplastic components.
“ID Eco-Pro 360 is not only green but also more effective than traditional rust removers,” according to Nick Sotos, President of iD Additives (La Grange, IL).
MobileSpecs LLC (Laramie, WY) has released Mobile Specs for Injection Molding, which now includes complete supplier data sheets for more than 20,000 plastic materials.
Several injection molding machines will be running on the show floor of co-located PLASTEC West and MD&M West, North America’s largest annual medical manufacturing event, in Anaheim, CA, next month. Not surprisingly, many of them will be producing medical parts. Here is a preview.
As market-leading companies try to balance a diverse set of needs—responsiveness, quality and innovation as well as cost—they will engage in off-shoring, near-shoring and on-shoring strategies simultaneously.
A historic unemployment rate has a downside that will spill into 2019: Companies continue to have challenges finding skilled employees, as the economic expansion steams ahead and baby boomers retire en masse.
The company will construct a 100,000-tonnes/year ASA plant in Bayport, TX, and add 70,000 tonnes/year of ABS capacity at its ABS/ASA plant in Altamira, Mexico.
The 2019 edition of China’s leading plastics show plans to tap into emerging regions as the Chinese plastics industry and end user players expand overseas.
The Netflix documentary The Bleeding Edge and the Implant Files report landed a one-two punch on an industry that, historically, has been sheltered from public controversy.
