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2 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal |Interplas Insights
TekniPlex Healthcare has announced that production activities have started at its new 200,000-square-foot facility in Madison, Wisconsin. Serving as the advanced materials science experts’ flagship location for its Barrier Protection Systems business, the facility combines innovative manufacturing technologies with materials science experts. The company is aiming to expand capabilities and access to crucial protective solutions throughout North America and the world.
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3 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Fictiv has announced that it has joined the leading global supplier of mechanical components for the manufacturing industry, MISUMI Group Inc. The move should help provide improvements to product development, manufacturing, and supply chain teams all over the world, providing access to custom and standard mechanical components, faster lead times, and AI-powered technology throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.
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4 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
In Lavera, Southern France, INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe received the first deliveries of a feedstock made from recycling plastic waste. This pyrolysis oil will be used to manufacture recycled polymers, helping customers to meet EU requirements for food contact, medical, and sensitive plastic packaging, ensuring they have a minimum of 10% recycled content by 2030.
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4 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Sanner has launched its manufacturing operations in Greensboro, North Carolina. The new facility will produce injection-moulded components that can be used in medical devices and pharmaceutical packaging, as well as desiccant solutions. This move aligns with Sanner’s long-term growth strategy, enabling the company to provide its customers with efficient and scalable manufacturing solutions.
Production has already commenced in Greensboro.
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5 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Encyclis and Biffa have reached an agreement that sees Encyclis acquire Biffa’s shares in two UK energy-from-waste assets that Encyclis operate. As a result of the move, Encyclis will acquire Biffa’s 50% stake in the Newhurst Energy Recovery facility in Leicestershire as well as its 25% stake in the under-construction Protos Energy Recovery facility in Cheshire. Following these acquisitions, Encyclis will have full ownership of both facilities.
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5 days ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Europlaz has invested £200,000 in a 200m2 expansion of its Essex-based site. The new area will help the company fulfil its recently won medical contract, while also having additional capacity for future business. Now, the facility will be able to house four additional moulding machines and dedicated assembly lines, all of which are ISO 7 cleanroom compliant.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Prism Worldwide has announced its trio of innovations set to transform the recycling and sustainable materials industries. Improvements in odour reduction, sustainable thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV) development, and high-content Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) reuse have been made. These three challenges are barriers to the wide adoption of recycled materials in consumer and industrial products.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
Syensqo has unveiled “the market’s first” peroxide-curable FFKM polymers, made without fluorosurfactants from the PFAs family of chemicals, using proprietary Non-Fluorosurfactant (NFS) technology. The new solution joins the advanced performance materials and chemical solutions specialist’s growing NFS FFKM portfolio, joining the nitrile-curable FFKM grades for semiconductor dry and plasma applications.
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1 week ago | 
interplasinsights.com | Rhiannon Temporal
CJ Biomaterials has announced the appointment of Allan (Hyuk Sung) Chung as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Chung will help direct the polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers producer as it enters its next growth phase, which will see further innovation and commercialisation of its sustainable PHACT PHA technology.
“I feel very fortunate to be leading CJ Biomaterials and believe they have built a strong foundation of innovation, product quality, and customer trust,” said Chung.
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1 week ago | 
tctmagazine.com | Rhiannon Temporal
The Sempre Group has announced its investment in a Hurco VM10i vertical machining centre (VMC). With manufacturers growing demand for bespoke automation solutions that provide quality control, metrology, and inspection processes, the Sempre Group is bringing the production of its systems in-house.
The importance of providing high-quality fixturing of components under test is crucial when ensuring customers can produce traceable, reproducible, and repeatable measurements on the shop floor.
