Industry News - 2014

Aimplas, the Technological Institute of Plastics located in Valencia, Spain, has collaborated with the company Solarays to create a new system which generates electricity from solar panels.  

Launched in April 2013, Madison, Wis.-based WFI Global LLC is making a name in the fenestration market with what it says is a distinct product development: the first polyurethane window foam made with renewable agricultural materials, in this case soybean oil.

CHICAGO — Ron Puvak and the folks over at Plastic Technologies Inc. see big things coming from some very tiny bubbles.

Bio-based composite material made from wood fibres, fillers such as marble-based calcium carbonate, and an animal bone meal-based binder, have been developed in a Swiss project. The IWK institute of materials technology and plastics processing at the HSR University in Rapperswil worked with FluidSolids in Zurich in the project.

Suez Environnement hopes to double its production of recycled plastics in Europe within five years, the company said.

RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Custom injection molder Trademark Plastics Inc. is experiencing significant growth in demands from its medical customers.

Packaging thermoformer EasyPak LLC plans to expand its Leominster, Mass., operation to the tune of $7.5 million.

CHICAGO — Bob Kleckauskas had a front-row seat at the dawn of blow molded plastic shampoo bottles, mouthwash bottles and other consumer products, as a young engineer at Walgreen Laboratories in Chicago.

New Balance, the running shoe maker, uses MuCell technology in the molding of its mid sole and heel components, used in more than one million pairs of shoes a year.