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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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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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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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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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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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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Clariant and Floreon to Collaborate on 'Performance' Biopolymers
A collaboration between Clariant and Floreon aims at expanding high-performance biopolymer applications to more markets.
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No Major Production Cutbacks of Material or Downstream Products Yet
Production at resin suppliers and plastics processors still going strong in the first week of fast-paced coronavirus life disruptions.
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