Qinchuan-Future Plastic mulls initial public offering
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International Plastics Design award winners announced
 Hospira's award-winning iSecure syringe
China’s manufacturers mull ways to boost industry
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Nypro boosts medical capacity in China and France
NEW YORK (June 23, 2009) -- Nypro Inc. is expanding its medical operations in China and Europe as part of its strategy to increase the percentage of its sales from medical from 30 percent to 40
percent over the next two years. “Asia continues to be where we put a lot of our energies because our customers are manufacturing there,” Brian Payson, vice president of business development for
Nypro Healthcare, told Plastics News at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East show in New York.
Arburg launches new hybrid injection machines
LOSSBURG, GERMANY (June 22, 2009) -- German injection machinery maker Arburg GmbH + Co. KG used its annual Technology Days open house event at its headquarters in Lossburg to launch its energy-saving
Hidrive hybrid machine line and to invite customers into its newly completed customer center.
Natural fibers, shiny surfaces to grace future car interiors
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN (June 25, 2009) -- The next generation of car interiors are likely to have a completely different look from today. Whether it’s a stripped-down or glossed-up look is yet unclear,
but either direction it takes will involve plastics. Traditionally, interior plastics have been disguised as something else, such as PVC or urethane given a grained texture to mimic leather. “If
you look into product design, there is a move to use plastic that’s happy to be plastic,” said Dave Lyon with General Motors, at Ward’s Auto Interiors Conference in Dearborn.
Fathead wall graphics’ popularity a slam dunk
 Fathead graphic of U.S. basketball player LeBron James
Joyatech benefits from China’s design push
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DuPont pushing for global sustainability standards
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (June 23, 2009) -- DuPont Co. is throwing its weight behind a push to have global sustainability standards. The company revealed its support for the standards as part of its
recent 2009 DuPont Packaging Awards event.
Sabic slates Shanghai tech center for 2010
GUANGZHOU (June 2, 2009) -- Sabic Innovative Plastics LP is moving ahead with its plans to establish a new technology center in Shanghai, expected to be ready by the end of next year. The new facility
also will serve as the Asia-Pacific headquarters for U.S.-based Sabic Innovative Plastics.
Nanocyl technology helps make plastics electric
GUANGZHOU (May 26, 2009) -- Displayed inside a glass case at the Nanocyl SA’s booth at Chinaplas was a large-scale model of the company’s product -- a bunch of white tubes connected at the tips to
form a web. It could have been an anonymous model inside a high school science lab, but for Nanocyle, the potential of its product depends entirely on its shape.
PTI develops system for making foamed PET bottles
 oPTI bottle technology
DuPont opens Shanghai technical center for solar energy
SHANGHAI (May 12, 2009) -- DuPont Co. has opened a technical center for the solar energy market at its Shanghai research and development center, and said it expects growth in China’s crystalline
silicone photovoltaic solar power system manufacturers. “China is a key market for DuPont and will remain so, in spite of the global recession,” said Douglas Muzyka, president of DuPont Greater
China.
Quadrant deal to help Mitsubishi boost business globally
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (May 12, 2009) -- Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. and executives of Swiss engineering plastics parts maker Quadrant AG have launched a joint 14.6 billion yen buyout of Quadrant and plan
to use it as a platform to expand their businesses internationally.
Press makers gung-ho about energy-efficient machines
 Plastics News' pre-NPE2009 coverage
Honda looks to aluminum molds for cost savings
MARYSVILLE, OHIO (May 5, 2009) -- Four years ago, executives with Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. asked a simple business question: How should the global automaker change to reflect an expected
decrease in production volume? Aluminum alloy molds for injection molding held promise, and thanks to an extensive network of molders, mold makers and material supplier partnerships Honda has
created, the company was in the right place to see just what aluminum tooling could do.
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