Plastics Processing

Avantium announced its second major partnership for its YXY technology to produce PEF bottles. Danone Research and Avantium have entered into a Joint Development Agreement for the development of PEF bottles for Danone, number two worldwide in bottled water business. The agreement forms another cornerstone of Avantium’s commercialization strategy to further co-develop the YXY technology for producing PEF bottles.
Read more

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has introduced a new line of industrial-grade barrier films for use with products and applications that require a high level of moisture protection.
Read more

KYDEX, LLC today announced the launch of a new 64-color library intended to bring creative design concepts to life while maintaining brand consistency.
Read more

Officials from MuCell Extrusion LLC and Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) recently concluded an agreement for MuCell Extrusion LLC to acquire Dow Chemical’s patent portfolio for flat sheet extrusion of polyolefin resins, and gives MuCell Extrusion and its customers exclusive rights to the Dow patents related to flat sheet technology for a wide variety of applications.
Read more

For this year’s JEC, Dieffenbacher focuses on progressive line concepts for the production of lightweight car body parts for the automotive industry. From March 27^th to 29^th, 2012 at booth P32, Dieffenbacher the technological leader in the field of fiber reinforced plastics forming, presents the PreformCenter for fully-automated production of 3D preforms made of carbon fibers.
Read more

Kistler (www.kistler.com), a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque and acceleration, has announced a new firmware upgrade for its Type 2869B CoMo Injection process monitoring system, version 2.3. This new firmware upgrade now allows for automatic mold identification, in addition to cost-effective cavity pressure monitoring and 100% zero-defect parts quality, within plastics injection molding applications. 
Read more

Main Image: 

(PLA) bioplastic compounds to include impact modified grades suitable for select semi-durable and durable applications.  These new compounds deliver enhanced impact strength and higher heat deflection temperatures than are possible with unmodified PLA resin, providing performance that is equivalent to traditional thermoplastics.
Read more

Main Image: 

Axel Plastics Research Laboratories (Woodside, New York), reports the development of a new proprietary process aid additive targeted to those who process or mold PBT and PBT resin blends.

AXEL’s new additive was developed in response to increased use of high-performance polymer blends in the automotive, transportation and electronics markets. “AXEL’s goal has been to offer a process aid additive that will offer improved flow of PBT and PBT resin blends,” says Nancy Teufel, AXEL’s Product Manager. “We now have that with MoldWiz® INT-35PHT, which allows more flexibility in the incorporation of filler types and loading levels, as well as an easier cavity fill and release performance for those same resins.”
Read more

Foster Delivery Science, a business unit for Foster Corporation, has added comprehensive in-house laboratory services to expedite the screening of early stage formulations, process development, and post-extrusion studies of solid dose drug delivery forms using hot melt extrusion.  As a contract research and manufacturing company that specializes in hot melt extrusion, Foster Delivery Science analytical services includes thermal analysis, spectroscopy, and chromatography equipment specifically designed for solid oral doses produced from this processing method. 
Read more

The range of high performance polymers available from DuPont for use in medical devices, including the new DuPont™ Delrin® SC699 acetal resin  forms the focal point of the company’s exhibit at Pharmapack 2012 in Paris (stand 561). Their use enables the design and manufacture of highly-accurate, reliable, durable and convenient products, as illustrated by the launch last year of the UnoPen™, a disposable, variable-dose injector pen for insulin and other therapies by the company Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).
Read more

Main Image: