Cell Automates Overmolding, Inspection of Hypodermic Needles
Moldworx designed a mold, end-of-arm-tooling and automation cell to automate production of hypodermic needles, replacing manual post-mold gluing.
Materials: Non-Silver Antimicrobial Technology for PP, ABS, PC
Lotte’s new Evermoin technology boasts safe, effective, fast-acting, and durable protection in fight against healthcare associated infections.
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Additives: High-Temperature Colorants for High-Temperature Resins in Healthcare Applications and More
PolyOne’s Colorant Chromatic colorant/additive masterbatches for polysulfone-based resins offered in custom and laser markable colors as well as pre-colored compounds.
Materials: Styrenic TPE for Medical Tubing Applications
Ineos Styrolution’s new Styroflex 4G80 comes with the company’s Essential HD Package (risk class 1 & 2).
Additives: Patented Anti-Counterfeit System for Plastics
Polyfil now offers Kafrit’s Tracer technology in the Americas.
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Extrusion Tooling: Reciprocating Head Allows Profile-Shape Changes 'On the Fly'
Device eliminates the need to change tools to accommodate different profile shapes, eliminates assembly of finished profile.
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Materials: Flame-Retardant, Impact-Modified PC/PBT
New additions to extensive portfolio of UL listed resins and blends for E/E/ from Polymer Resources.
Materials: Self-Bonding LSR Optimizes Overmolding with Specialty Copolyester
Momentive’s new LSR series enables overmolding with Eastman’s Tritan in a single-step process.
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Welding: Advanced Ultrasonic Servo Presses
MS Ultrasonic Group’s new family of welders features an integrated servo drive and patented technology.
Material Handling: New Loaders and Receivers Handle Smaller Throughputs for Medical Jobs
Cleanroom-ready design and construction make them well suited for medical processing applications on injection molding machines up to 400 tons.