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Venezuela's First Ambient Yogurt Uses Barrier 750-Gram PET Container from Amcor Rigid Plastics

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Venezuela's First Ambient Yogurt Uses Barrier 750-Gram PET Container from Amcor Rigid Plastics

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MANCHESTER, Mich., October 29, 2013 – Empresas Polar, a leading Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer, has broken new ground with the commercial launch of the first ambient stored yogurt in Venezuela. The non-refrigerated pourable yogurt, called MiGurt, is packaged in an aseptically filled, 750-gram barrier polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle from Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s […]

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Flowplus16 pressure sensor from Intertronics for critical dosing and dispensing

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Flowplus16 pressure sensor from Intertronics for critical dosing and dispensing

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The flowplus16 pressure sensor from Intertronics offers high accuracy monitoring in an innovative design suited to critical dosing and dispensing applications. Accurate in-line pressure sensing can deliver important quality assurance in a whole range of automatic processes; for example, in medical, pharmaceutical and semi-conductor manufacturing, as well as the wider areas of process control. The […]

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Foster Offers Non-Migratory Antistatic Polymers for Medical Applications

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Foster Offers Non-Migratory Antistatic Polymers for Medical Applications

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PUTNAM, CT USA – (October 29, 2013) – Foster Corporation, a leader in custom polymers for medical devices, introduces static dissipative polymer blends specifically designed for medical devices and equipment. These blends use a non-migratory, polyether block amide (PEBA) polymer additive that retains continuous antistatic properties and cannot be wiped off with medical cleaning agents. […]

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Record visi-tor numbers for SIMONA at K 2013

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Discover Future Solutions –Record visi-tor numbers for SIMONA at K 2013

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Innovation topics proved highly successful – Significant pro-portion of international trade visitors Showcasing an extensive range of new products, SIMONA AG, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of thermoplastics, presented itself as an innovative supplier of polymer solutions at this year’s K 2013 trade fair. Incorporating multimedia pres-entation systems, the exhibition stand attracted significantly more […]

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Plastics Color Corp. Expands Antimicrobial Line

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Plastics Color Corp. Expands Antimicrobial Line

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Calumet City, Ill., October 15, 2013 – PCC (Plastics Color Corporation), a leading supplier of color concentrates, compounds, custom-functional masterbatches and other polymer technologies, today announced an expansion of its MicroBlok™ line of antimicrobials for polymers. The new formulation, labeled MicroBlok™ Z, contains zinc compounds instead of the silver ions in the original MicroBlok. Zinc’s […]

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Volkswagen leads project to develop laser cutting of carbon fibre components

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Volkswagen leads project to develop laser cutting of carbon fibre components

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Volkswagen AG is working with Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and other partners to develop a laser process for automated cutting of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) components for the automotive industry. If cars based on CFRP are to be mass produced, then automated production technologies for cutting the material must be developed. Conventional technologies […]

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