Roger Renstrom

Custom injection molder Jatco Inc. is moving its headquarters and California operations about 75 miles to the Modesto area from Union City. The new site in Stanislaus County is smaller, but more efficient.

Eastman Chemical Co. aims to develop an advanced circular recycling technology using the process of methanolysis.

Precision injection molder D&&M Plastics LLC of Burlington, Ill., takes safety seriously. Through Feb. 22, D&&M had logged 1,255 work days without a lost-time accident, and the count continues.

Westfall Technik Inc. acquired Precision Injection Molding Co. (Pimco) of Corona, Calif., on Feb. 22, marking Westfall Technik's12th acquisition of an injection molding or mold making business in the past 16 months.

Custom compression molder Jade Engineered Plastics Inc. is moving this year and leaving its four-decade location in Bristol, R.I.

Jeff Hrivnak made a rational case on utilizing specialty polymers instead of metal in a presentation at the UBM Advanced Manufacturing expo in Anaheim.

The In-Mold Decorating Association is accepting entries for its 13th annual competition for the best in-mold-labeled packaging, in-mold-decorated durable products and in-mold-electronics parts and products.

An injection molder says medical work accounts for 80 percent of its sales, so it spent more than $500,000 in improvement initiatives in 2018

St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M Co.'s healthcare segment won a 2019 materials and assembly Golden Mousetrap Award for its 4077 elastic polyurethane-blend nonwoven extended-wear medical tape.

Ray Products Co. Inc. displayed a business instrumentation drawer front with a deep-draw undercut at the UBM Advanced Manufacturing expo in Anaheim, Calif.

Internal testing by Herrmann Ultrasonics Inc. found that the forced cooling method can decrease sonotrode relative temperatures by as much as 79 percent.

The initial domestic center was set up at Borche NA's 26,000-square-foot facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., President Hans Chen said.

The In-Mold Decorating Association dealt with issues including disruption, product sustainability, workforce changes, best practices and technology advances during its annual symposium.

Tech II Inc. is pursuing research and development for the thermoforming of in-mold labels of PET and, separately, thermoforming of expanded polypropylene, said Eric Shiffer, CEO of the Springfield, Ohio-based firm.

For wound monitoring, inkjet-printed electrode arrays can map tissue impedance and detect wounds such as pressure ulcers before they become visible, Karthik Gopalan said.