Items Tagged with 'thermoplastics'

GRECIA, Costa Rica— Trelleborg Medical Solutions has opened a 107,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Costa Rica’s Evolution Free Zone Industrial Park, expanding its global production footprint and adding centralized manufacturing capabilities for medical devices. 

Rinco Ultrasonics is a world leader in ultrasonic plastic welding, cutting, and punching. Our technology is “Around You Every Day” from automotive interiors to medical devices, as well as the cutting of cakes.

ROYALTON, VT— GW Plastics Inc. has completed a 30,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing and technology center here to accommodate the growth in thermoplastic injection molding and medical device contract assembly business.

Medical devices represent both a challenge and an opportunity for plastics manufacturers.

Comfort food can do more than just make a person feel good after a rough day. It can also be used, believe it or not, to help someone better understand a complex assembly technology.

For the past decade, carbon-fiber composites have been the darling of the aerospace sector, receiving countless praise and widespread attention. Reinforced polymers have dramatically changed the way that many types of airframes are designed and built.

With 40+ thermoplastic polymers in general use, one could expect there is an existing material capable of meeting any performance criteria. After all, plastics span a performance spectrum from inexpensive commodity resins to high performance engineering resins.

This process can be pressed into service for forming several different materials.