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Highlighting the SPE Plastics Environmental Division's perennial Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC), to convene Feb. 18-19 in Detroit this year, will be an awards presentation honoring companies who have developed [...]

The National Plastics Hall of Fame will induct six new members at NPE in Chicago on June 26: Samuel L. Beicher, F. Reed Estabrook, Jr., Michael F.X. Gigliotti, John R. [...]

The Society of Plastics Engineers honored 18 SPE Senior Members during ANTEC 2002 by naming them Fellows of the Society. Nominated by an SPE Division, candidates for Fellow must be [...]

Minneapolis-based Forward Technology announces the opening of its new Automotive Engineering & Service Center in Auburn Hills, Mich. The 6500 ft facility will support the company's plastics-assembly equipment product [...]

Radical Elastomers, Inc. (Langley, British Columbia) formerly known as Botex Industries Corp., announces the official changeover to its new company name, logo, and trademark. The Canadian company's website can now [...]

Having signed an exclusive agreement with Graham Machinery Group (GMG) of York, Pa., Hollo Plastics Equipment, based in Cleveland, will sell and service GMG blow-molding machinery in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, [...]

A new business unit formed in Reading, Pa., by Applied Market Information (AMI), is called Applied Market Information, LLC, and incorporates the existing plastics, packaging, and chemicals business of PenResearch, [...]

Chemical Exchange Industries, Inc. (CMI), has built and is now operating a new high-pressure-hydrogenation facility at the company's Houston location. Featured is a newly designed, continuous, fixed-bed unit for production [...]

Former competitors Cinpres and Gas Injection Ltd. (GIL) have come together as Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd. (CGI) following the acquisition of Gas Injection by Cinpres's parent, U.K.-based BI Group, Plc. [...]

Plasticolors, Inc., of Ashtabula, Ohio, has selected Indiana Naval Stores Co., Inc., with locations in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio, to distribute its products for the cast-polymer industry in [...]

Charmilles Technologies Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., announces that Dorsey-Warford Machine Tool, Inc., of Anaheim, Calif., has become its new distributor in southern [...]

Pawcatuck, Conn.-based Davis-Standard Corp. has announced the consolidation of its manufacturing operation in Luton, U.K., into its manufacturing facility in Erkrath, Germany. It will retain a sales and technical-support office [...]

Ashland Specialty Chemical Co. (Dublin, Ohio) has purchased Polydyne, Inc.'s gel-coat business (and assets), which will operate within Ashland's Composite Polymers Division. The division plans to lease--and continue operations at--the [...]

ESI Group, a provider of virtual prototyping and manufacturing solutions with locations worldwide, has acquired the Montreal-based company L3P. ESI will now offer L3P's software product, LCMFLOT, which simulates the [...]

Stik-II Products, an Easthampton, Mass.-based manufacturer of pressure-sensitive foam tapes, has purchased Richards, Parents & Murray, Inc., of Mount Vernon, [...]

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.) has agreed to purchase the assets of the Celotex Corp.'s rigid-foam insulation business, including all Celotex brand polyisocyanurate insulation products for commercial and residential [...]

To replace an expensive plastic thrust washer in its Model 72C high-performance clutch for utility vehicles, Hoffco/Comet enlisted Mitsui Chemicals' Aurum thermoplastic polyimide, selecting the JCN 3030 resin. Made of [...]

Bayer Corp. has completed the addition of a fully automated Long Fiber Technology Lab at its Polyurethane Application Development Center in [...]

PolyOne Corp. (Cleveland) has signed a licensing agreement with Ciba Specialty Chemicals whereby PolyOne will market Ciba's Shelfplus UV filter as an additive concentrate for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle applications [...]

Becker Industrial Coatings (BIC), part of The Becker Group headquartered in Sweden, has established two new companies in North America: BIC Corp. in Edison, N.J., and BIC Mexicana, S de [...]

Through an exclusive global marketing agreement between EAS Mold & Die Change Systems and Walker Magnetics, EAS will market Walker Braillion's Pressmag magnetic systems in its electropermanent magnetic clamping [...]

SciTech Plastics Group, LLC, and Brookfield Group, Inc., have announced the completion of their merger. SciTech includes four companies in Constantine, Mich.; Sanger, Tex.; Marlborough, Mass.; and Sterling, Mass. Brookfield [...]

A site license agreement involving knovel Corp. and Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Cornell University will allow students, faculty, and researchers access to www.knovel.com and its [...]

Sentinel Products Corp. of Hyannis, Mass., and BC Foam, Srl., of Volpiano (Turin), Italy, have formed a joint marketing alliance to provide equipment for the manufacture of PET foam sheet [...]

The following have received ISO, QS, or other Certification: Synventive Molding Solutions (formerly Dynisco HotRunners), Gravendeel, The Netherlands (European headquarters), QS 9000, for its offices in Germany, The Netherlands, the [...]

Bohlin Instruments, of Cirencester, U.K., and East Brunswick, N.J., has expanded its German sales and service facility in Pforzheim by approximately 40% to 700 [m.sup.2], adding demonstration and applications testing [...]

Atofina Chemicals, Inc. (Philadelphia) is approaching the end of a series of enhancements and investments in PVdF (polyvinylidene fluoride) resin production at its Calvert City, Ky., facility. By early November, [...]

Rehau, Inc., has expanded its Leesburg, Va., corporate campus with the completion of a 76,000 [ft.sup.2] building called the Palladium, which will accommodate the company's growing staff and showcase its [...]

Leistritz has added a 20,000 [ft.sup.2] facility to its Somerville, N.J., operations to accommodate increased manufacturing and assembly capacities. The company will now offer machine refurbishment and gearbox rebuild [...]

CyTerra Corp. has opened a nanophase materials development laboratory at its Waltham, Mass., headquarters. Moreover, it has acquired two patents based on a spark-erosion process that uses a high-frequency, high-voltage [...]

Caco Pacific Corp. of Covina, Cal., announces that it will consolidate and modernize its European operations--closing its mold-making plant in Lyon, France, while retaining its sales and customer service office [...]

Tekra Corp. of New Berlin, Wis, announces the consolidation of its two divisions, Film and Adhesive Products (FAP) and Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), into a single company [...]

E&O Tool & Plastics, Inc., of Elk River, Minn., announced that it has completed the sale of the company to a management group consisting of Jason Caswell, Timothy Osterman, and [...]

Trend Technologies, Inc., has announced plans to consolidate its North San Jose (Calif.) injection molding facility into its metal-fabrication and paint facility in South San Jose by the end of [...]

Owens Coming's Automotive Solutions Business and Bayer--Corp.'s Polyurethanes Division have announced a strategic alliance to develop advanced long-glass-fiber-reinforced polyurethane composite technologies for the global automotive market. 'As environmental and economic [...]

LATI USA has expanded its line of nonhalogenated, antimony-free and phosphorus-free flame-retardant (F-R) nylons to meet international environmental standards, the company reports. The nonhalogenated Lati nylons use nitrogen-based compounds as [...]

Huntsman Polyurethanes has introduced Linestar engineered lumber adhesive (ELA) systems to the engineered-wood industry for I-beams, finger-jointed lumber, and laminated veneer lumber (LVL). Providing ASTM D2559-certified, urethane-based, single-component, cold-cure adhesives, [...]

Axel Plastics Research Laboratories has added three new products to its Xtend line of semi-permanent mold releases for RTM and closed molding applications: Xtend 19SAM, 19WAM, and 19HAM. All are [...]

Archer Rubber Co. reports that its series of nitrile and hydrin elastomers can be combined with various types of substrates to meet specific performance requirements for fabricating gaskets and diaphragms [...]

Engel reports that its new 'e-motion' is the first injection molding machine (IMM) that is both electric and tiebarless--marrying the two technologies to deliver high precision, molding economics, power efficiency, [...]

Rogers Corp. announces a new white epoxy molding material that enables the design of smaller next-generation optoelectronic packages. Called Reflecton, this specialty material is formulated to withstand high solder temperatures [...]

Cast platen heaters from Durex Industries promise a durable heat source for commercial applications including thermoforming. With platen thickness of 0.5 inch and greater, the product features a rugged tubular [...]

Used for injection molded components in the Pro Mag ignition coil from MSD Ignition, DuPont's Rynite PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is demonstrating that thermoplastics need not be limited to use in [...]

The AccuTrac resin-blending system--introduced by Foremost Machine Builders at Plastics USA in Chicago this month--is said to offer a low-cost solution to smaller batch-blending needs. According to the manufacturer, it [...]

The easy-to-install TwistPfit faucet system features BP Amoco Polymers' Udel polysulfone as the material for its hose assembly end connectors. The system is designed by Price Pfister to make installation [...]

Questra crystalline polymers from Dow Plastics are said to cost-effectively meet the needs of the electronic communications marketplace for high-flow materials to form the thinner and higher-density walls of today's [...]

New from Instron Corp. is the Dynatup 9250, designed to test impact properties of polymers, metals, composites, and full components for the automotive industry. The impact-testing machine reportedly offers impact [...]

Husky Injection Molding Systems has released two new products for enhancing the quality of injection molded parts. The Index Shuttletable is a post-molding device for high-volume Index systems, designed to [...]

Maac Machinery has developed a more compact three-station rotary thermoforming system for use in mass producing high-quality components from heavy-gauge cut sheets of HDPE (high-density polyethylene), ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), and a [...]

Technical Machine Products (TMP) has introduced a vacuum injection molding system for the rubber and plastics industries. According to TMP, the new VacuJet represents a 'revolutionary' development in rubber injection [...]