Dear Customers, Suppliers & Friends: Today is the 2012 Chinese New Year Eve, we wish all a prosperous new year of 2012 coming soon. Thank you for all of your supports of understanding throughout the year of 2011. Good business again in injection molding and plastic parts making industry. Good Luck 2012. Thank you
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German groups are making headway in developing processes to injection mold plastics with glass. Kunststoff Institut Lüdenscheid (KIMW) is progressing in its KuGlas (Kunststoff-Glas) project, which it first discussed at its September 2010 innovative surfaces conference. KIMW sees great potential for avoiding separate joining techniques when producing instrument panel displays for premium cars. In August
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SES Foam and Imperial Sugar Co. are introducing SucraSeal, which they claim is an environmentally friendly, open-cell, Class 1 sucrose-based spray foam insulation. SucraSeal products meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s BioPreferred program qualifications and their green content has been determined by ASTM D-6886. The developers say SucraSeal offers an “energy-efficient and sustainable solution for
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The Russian polymers market is on the verge of big changes, due to the long-awaited accession of Russia into the World Trade Organization (WTO). As part of the agreement, within two to three years of accession Russia will reduce import duties on basic polymers from the existing 10 percent to 6.5 percent. However, duties on
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Reichhold Industries Inc. opened its new manufacturing facility in Tianjin in northern China in December 2011, setting a foothold in the rapidly growing market. The facility currently has a planned annual production capacity of 38,000 metric tons, with a potential expansion to 60,000 metric tons. It will produce a full Reichhold composites product line,
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A Chinese manufacturer of model cars is acquiring the majority share of a local polystyrene plant owned by South Korea’s SK Networks, a move that the company said will help achieve upstream vertical integration. Xinghui Auto Model Co. Ltd. of Shantou, Guangdong province aims to obtain a 67.4 percent stake in SK Networks PS (Shantou)
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Chinese injection press maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd. has canceled plans for a factory in the northern Chinese city of Dalian, saying the Chinese government’s austerity measures have slowed down the market. Haitian had announced in 2010 that it planned to build the factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, to focus on selling into northern China.
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HONG KONG (Jan. 10, 2012) — One of Hong Kong’s largest plastic injection molding companies, Vigor Precision Ltd., is leading an effort with the Hong Kong government to develop what they say will be China’s first locally-owned airline seat manufacturing business. The project recently unveiled its first seat, for the Airbus A340, and hopes to
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An environmental body hopes that plastic packaging used at the London Olympics that is not recyclable is made from compostable materials. The United Kingdom’s National Center for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials (NNFCC) has signed up to advise the Olympics Delivery Authority and London Organizing Committee for the games on using renewable packaging throughout the
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Teknor Apex Co. has developed three technologies to bond its Medalist thermoplastic elastomers to traditional connectors. The new systems make the Medalist MD-500 series a practical alternative to PVC in medical tubing, according to Ellott Pritikin, senior medical market manager. They allow common-size TPE infusion tubing to achieve bonds with a retention force greater than
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