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Hospira's award-winning iSecure syringe

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (June 30, 2009) -- Pharmaceutical and medical delivery company Hospira Inc. used multishot molding and in-mold assembly to create the iSecure Syringe with four different pieces and three materials. The product, designed by Hospira and molded by MGS Manufacturing Group, won the Industrial Designers Society of America/Plastics News Design Award at the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.’s 2009 International Plastics Design Competition. The design is simple and straightforward at first glance -- with the different parts labeled in the mold to designate the first, second and third steps for the nurse administering the drug -- but integrating that into a complex manufacturing piece in a clean room environment was very impressive, said one of the judges.

Husky reroutes spending into packaging, medical

CHICAGO (June 24, 2009) -- John Galt, top executive at Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., said a more-focused Husky is well-positioned to withstand a tough market for new-press sales. Husky is demonstrating at NPE2009 high-speed closure molding on a new HyCAP machine and its offerings in hot runners, production monitoring and preventative maintenance.

Silcotech targets India's domestic market with new JV

CHICAGO (June 23, 2009) -- Canadian liquid silicone molder Silcotech North America Inc. and India’s Bonny Products Pvt. Ltd. have formed a joint venture aimed at tapping India’s domestic market, the latest step in Silcotech’s push into developing economies, following startups in China and Bulgaria.

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China’s manufacturers mull ways to boost industry

Chan

HONG KONG (June 30, 2009) -- Stung by the collapse of their export markets, Chinese manufacturers should not look for that big volume business to return and instead ought to explore new areas such as manufacturing products targeted at niche markets, using better industrial design and looking inward at Chinese culture for inspiration. That, at least, was some of the advice coming from manufacturers and industrial designers -- like Eric Chan, a native of Guangdong province and now president of industrial design firm Ecco Design Inc. in New York -- at a Hong Kong forum on reinvigorating the sagging manufacturing industries in the Pearl River Delta.

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.

China’s TK is ready to take on global medical market

TK Medical's Charlie Yu, left, and Xing Zhou in their Guangzhou office

GUANGZHOU (June 23, 2009) -- Those wondering how long it will take China to make the leap from churning out cheap, low-end goods to higher-tech stuff might want to pay attention to Guangzhou TK Medical Instrument Co. Ltd. The company, with a heavy focus on plastic medical products, wants to become one of China’s first globally recognized medical device makers. Plastics News caught up with Charlie Yu, who became TK’s chief executive officer in September, to talk about how the 5-year-old company hopes to transform itself, and whether China can duplicate in medical devices -- where manufacturing mistakes can hurt or kill people -- what it has done in industries like toys and consumer electronics.

PTI to introduce Globaline extrusion system at NPE
CHICAGO (June 16, 2009) -- Processing Technologies International LLC (PTI) is unveiling its new Globaline extrusion system that allows efficient short-run production of sheet at NPE2009. The system is especially designed for PTI’s strategy of expanding into areas such as Russia, Eastern Europe, South America, China and India where an extrusion line needs to handle a variety of jobs.

Resin makers realizing China’s import potential

Hanck

GUANGZHOU (June 2, 2009) -- Just a few years ago, China was mainly a cheap export base, where products were made and sent elsewhere around the world. These days, the reverse is increasingly true: China’s growing domestic market is attracting more attention, particularly from global resin makers. “There is real demand in the domestic China market,” said Hong Kong-based Philippe Hanck of DuPont’s engineering polymers unit. He said DuPont has seen a tangible effect from China’s government stimulus spending in automotive, rail, mobile phones and renewable energy.

GLS Corp. targets safety with new products

Noller

GUANGZHOU (June 2, 2009) -- In response to growing concerns about the quality and safety of goods manufactured in China, GLS Corp. said that the company’s plant in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, has achieved a new level of ISO certification for its medical-grade thermoplastic elastomers. “In this market you have to differentiate yourself,” said Rick Noller, GLS’ director of global marketing. “We’ve already differentiated ourselves with our products, but it’s not enough.”

Ashland Distribution continues to grow in China
GUANGZHOU (May 26, 2009) -- After weathering a difficult first year in China, Ashland Distribution arrived at Chinaplas 2009 last week with a growing list of distribution agreements in the region. In an economic downturn, a company official said, there are some advantages to being a new arrival.

Japan’s Teijin to restructure some plastics businesses
TOKYO, JAPAN (May 5, 2009) -- Hit by what it calls sharply deteriorating performance in recent months, diversified Japanese chemical firm Teijin Group said it wants to “drastically restructure” some plastics businesses, including PET film and fibers and polycarbonate resin. Teijin said it wants to make a long-term shift away from those commodity materials, which now are 50 percent of sales, and seek to boost business with high-performance materials, pharmaceuticals, home health care and “green chemistry.”

California molder recovers offshore work
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA (April 28, 2009) -- Custom injection molder Wright Engineered Plastics Inc. of Santa Rosa is adding business due to a customer returning some work from China to the United States. CP Lab Safety of Novato, California, relocated work after manufacturing goods in Dongguan, Guangdong province. CP Lab said it will continue manufacturing its tools in China.

Exports slow, but Chinese medical firms still growing

Atkinson

SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG (April 28, 2009) -- Making medical products is supposed to be a vaccine against typical recessions for companies. For the moment, it may also offer China at least a partial inoculation against the world economy’s steepest slowdown in 60 years. Plastics firms in the country’s medical sector are pushing ahead with investments, judging by recent interviews at China International Medical Equipment Fair. Exhibitors said they expect China’s new health-care reform plan to boost spending. “It appears to be a pretty substantial opportunity for medical device makers,” said David Atkinson, senior director of a medical business unit for American manufacturer Jabil Circuit Inc. Jabil has plastics operations at five China plants, including one dedicated medical facility.

Underwriters Laboratories buys Bayer plastics testing lab
NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS (April 28, 2009) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has purchased a plastics testing lab in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, from Bayer MaterialScience AG. The deal will allow Northbrook-based Underwriters Laboratories -- an independent organization that tests more than 19,000 products, components, materials and systems each year -- to expand its services in the plastics market.

Package thermoformer Prent expands in China, Denmark

Pregont

JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN (April 21, 2009) -- Packaging thermoformer Prent Corp. is expanding its plant in Shanghai and is building a plant in Holbaek, Denmark. Both projects are scheduled to be finished within nine months. “We have outgrown our space in China,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Pregont. The expansion into Europe was driven by market conditions, he said. Medical packaging accounts for more than 50 percent of the company’s sales, followed by electronics packaging. Prent designs and manufacturers blister packs, pressure-formed trays and clamshells.

Danish health-care firm shifts work to E. Europe, China
HUMLEBAEK, DENMARK (March 31, 2009) -- Danish health-care products manufacturer Coloplast A/S is laying off 173 employees, most of them at its plants in Denmark, as part of the major restructuring program announced last year. The reorganization involves a gradual switch of production from Western Europe to operations in Hungary and China.

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