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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,”…

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,…

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to a report on the petrochemicals industry released today by the Minderoo Foundation. It is reprinted below. Every day plastics help protect people and keep us healthy in countless ways. Plastics make modern medicine possible. Syringes, IV bags, N95 masks, and almost all sterile medical instruments rely on plastics. Outside of hospitals, plastics help prevent everyday exposures to pathogens, through…