Looks like the future is wide-open for plastic caps and closures in the US the next four years! The numbers don’t lie: the United States caps and closures market was almost $12.5 billion in 2019, and it’s expected to reach over $15 billion by 2025. For the numbers crunchers out there, that’s a Compound Annual…
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You usually don’t think of “plastic” when you think of electrical equipment. Copper, brass, steel, even rubber comes to mind, but plastic? Wouldn’t it be likely to break, melt or stop the current in some way? The answer to the first two concerns is an emphatic “no.” High-temperature precision thermoplastics, as their name implies, have…
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Quick — what material comes to mind when you think of medical parts? If you’re like most people, the answer is bright and shiny stainless steel. From scalpels to needles, trays to operating tables, stainless steel just seems so, so medical, right? The operative term here is “seems”. Because when it comes to medical devices and…
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Not many people are thrilled about a trip to the dentist. It depends on the procedure, of course. A simple cleaning is tolerable, but a root canal? Well, let’s just say it’s not something most people can sink their teeth into. But, as unappealing as it is, a trip to the dentist the last decade…
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Although it’s an out-dated term, “plastic surgery” is still commonly used by the public to describe common procedures in “cosmetic surgery” (the correct, modern term): rhinoplasty, liposuction and the like. But while plastic surgery may no longer be an operative term (pun intended), it may have acquired a completely new meaning because of the prevalence…
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It’s a familiar, if unfortunate, scene that is burned on the retinas of millions around the world: hazmat-suited medical personnel inserting nasal swabs into the noses of drivers or pedestrians, collecting specimens to be tested for COVID-19. These nasopharyngeal swabs/syringes, which have been used in hospitals for more than 50 years consist of two pieces:…
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Sometimes two-steps are better than one. Take medical device plastic injection molding, for example: sometimes you need both strength and ergonomics, as you do with surgical instruments which might a need a super-hard plastic “business end,” and a more “soft touch” plastic handle for the surgeon’s sensitive hands. The answer for manufacturing such medical instruments…
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Car manufacturers making ICU ventilators. E-commerce giants delivering testing kits. And plastic injection molding companies in Illinois and elsewhere making a variety of items to aid in the battle against COVID-19. Wherever you look, American industry is rolling up its sleeves to do its part in fighting this pandemic. AdvanTech Plastics is part of that…
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PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING INVENTED IN 19TH CENTURY? YEP! 1868, to be precise. American inventor John W. Hyatt patented a process that produced a product he called “celluloid” (not what later would eventually become movie film) which he used as a replacement for ivory in billiard balls and piano keys, among other things. Although an Englishman…
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Time was when the word “plastics” conjured up images of islands of floating polyurethane plastic bottles in an otherwise beautiful blue placid sea. Worse yet, were actual photographs of bird and sea life chocking to death from plastic ring carriers. That was then. Today, many industry resin producers, as well as plastic injection molders, are…
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