Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and its U.S. affiliate Toray Resin Co. (TREC; Troy, Michigan) have jointly established a company in Mexico to carry out compounding of engineering plastics. Toray Resin ...

Compounders and concentrate makers remain attractive merger and acquisition targets, even if the number of deals in that sector is down in recent months. Through August, 25 resin, color and ...

Lead's time in medical devices is quickly running out and opportunistic plastics suppliers are jumping into the void being left by out-of-favor toxic metal to offer polymer compounds that offer ...

Lanxess, a glass fiber manufacturers, is seeing a marked growth in demand for its milled short glass fibers (milled fiber) for plastic compounding, but not only. This is particularly true for the ...

Over the decades, ASTM shear test methods, from lamina-level to multidirectional laminate-level, have continued to evolve as composite applications require higher shear strengths.

Plastic Recycling Inc. (PRI), headquartered in Indianapolis, has invested $10 million to add two new state-of-the-art extruder systems and upgrade its laboratory equipment, allowing it to compound 200 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A unit of Lao family-led D&L Industries Inc. has launched a 100-percent abaca pellet product for plastics compounding, marking a major step in the company’s sustainability ...

Coolrec, an electronics recycling firm headquartered in the Netherlands, has opened its Coolrec Plastics Compounding plant in Emmen, Netherlands. The facility is expected to produce 10,000 tonnes of ...

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, has launched three new online courses, offered in streaming format, on compounding and advanced materials. This training, available on its Plastics Academy ...