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Registration is open now for Plastics Technology’s Extrusion 2022 Conference. And you save yourself and your company a couple of hundred bucks if your take advantage of early-bird pricing and sign up before Nov. 5. Extrusion 2022, now in its eighth year, is an education-focused, two-and-a-half-day event that will feature sessions from industry leaders and networking opportunities. The conference will take place on December 6-8, 2022 at the Omni Charlotte…

Extruder of oriented PVC piping Molecor plans to bring the largest diameter PVC-O pipe in the world to K 2022. Following in the footsteps of the company’s 630-, 800-, and 1,000-mm-diameter pipes, the new 1,200 mm pipe opens up new possibilities for supplying population centers and reservoir pumping applications. Like the other pipes in Spain-based Molecor’s portfolio, the 1,200-mm model is manufactured in compliance with the Spanish version of EN…

A joint project to optimize injection molding using flow simulation data has produced actual process performance nearly identical to the modeled performance, according to Oerlikon HRSflow. The collaboration evaluated a three-cavity mold on an Engel machine with a servo-driven eight-cavity hot-runner system from Oerlikon and used Borealis Daplen EE001AI polypropylene. Weight difference for the mold components was 1:11 from smallest to largest. The simulation was conducted with Autodesk’s Moldflow software.…

Digital health company Epicore Biosystems, which has developed sweat-sensing wearables that monitor hydration in real time, has entered into a partnership with with 3M’s Health Care Business and medtech manufacturer Innovize Inc. By leveraging 3M’s skin-interfacing materials and Innovize’s manufacturing capabilities, Epicore said it will further scale its portfolio of advanced wearable hydration solutions. Epicore cited global supply-chain disruptions as a reason for pursuing the collaboration. “It is critical for companies…