Conservative estimates indicate more than 3 million patients have been directly impacted by 3D printing. Meet just a few of those patients. Hear what it has meant to them and why what you do is so important. The stories will be presented at MD&M Minneapolis. Click here for more details. Facial Reconstruction: For John Roby, the road to recovery from injuries to his face has been paved with teamwork between…
Ferris State University’s plastics program may be in just the right place at the right time to play a big part in developing future electric vehicles.
Freudenberg Medical reports that it has expanded industrial design and human factors engineering through the launch of a Handle Design Center of Excellence (CoE) in Jeffersonville, IN. The expansion allows Freudenberg to centralize handle design and development efforts, accelerating prototyping and unifying handle learnings across the organization, said the company. A global developer and manufacturer of finished medical devices and components, Freudenberg Medical develops user interfaces for minimally invasive products…
With a packed personal agenda and the confidence that while the halls might be less full in terms of total attendees they will be more filled with more decision makers, Ulrich Reifenhäuser is confident K 2022 (Oct. 19-26; Düsseldorf, Germany) will be a commercial success and perhaps even more, once the event is looked back at in hindsight. “Since the last K show, the plastics industry has seen tremendous challenges,”…
An Alabama automotive plastics supplier is facing more than $47,000 in combined fines from state and federal Department of Labor for hiring a 13-year-old and two 15-year-olds to work at a plant in Alexander City, Ala.
A long-glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) compound from Borealis is a core component of an all-plastic tailgate tagged to the new Volkswagen Multivan. Molded of Fibremod PP compound, the tailgate is said to be the largest ever all-thermoplastic tailgate. The revolutionary tailgate of the new VW Multivan demonstrates how customer-centric innovation and collaboration can produce high-performance parts that lower the overall carbon footprint of vehicles, said Borealis. The Fibremod portfolio of…
If you are involved in extrusion processing of virtually any kind, you’ll want to check out the Extrusion 2022 Conference. It will be held Dec. 6-8 at the Omni Charlotte Hotel, Charlotte, N.C., and if you register before Nov. 5 you can save yourself a couple of hundred bucks. Now in its eight year, the Extrusion Conference is organized so that you can maximize the time the opportunity to learn…
Structural foam molding is more popular than ever. It saves raw material, energy, and weight, supporting the objective of producing and using plastic parts in a more sustainable way. At K 2022, Engel (hall 15, booth C58) is presenting a new technology for plastics processors who produce parts in parallel on several production cells using the structural foam molding process. Whereas each injection molding machine previously required its own gas supply,…
Younger workers also want different things from their careers than previous generations did, says John Beaumont. Millennials and members of Generation Z want remote work opportunities and they value continuous education.
Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages is a regional bottler that seeks to innovate with the help of others, one company official said.