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Fast-growing plastics firm Westfall Technik Inc. picked up another company, announcing Oct. 19 that it bought bought mold maker Extreme Tool && Engineering in Michigan.
Called MedTech Launch by Genesis Plastics Welding, the division offers services in design, prototyping, quality and risk management, regulatory support and manufacturing.
Proto Labs Inc. has continued its trajectory of positive growth, continuing work recently on a building it purchased in Brooklyn Park, Minn., to expand its CNC business.
Illinois mold maker Big 3 Precision is partnering with design firm Fuseneo Inc. to blend design and manufacturability in the development of injection blow and injection stretch blow molded products.
A new company will build a new blown film plant in central Ohio, a project that will eventually create an estimated 66 jobs.
Plastic welding equipment producer Forward Technology completed an expansion it predicts will help customers become more efficient and cut costs.
Whether it was making molds, turning around companies or playing golf, Alan B. Hall wanted to be perfect. Hall, who was in the plastics industry for 42 years, died Dec. 15 from cancer.
Germany's TecPart association honored ten different parts during the 2013 K Fair in Düsseldorf, used in everything from consumer products to high-end cars like the Mercedes-Benz SLK.
CHICAGO — The folks at MRC Polymers Inc. need the folks at Spectrum Vocational Training Agency. And the folks at Spectrum need the folks at MRC. And at the end of the workday, hard-to-recycle plastics get diverted from landfills.