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4 News News from the global injection moulding industry, including: Injection moulding expo to debut in Detroit in March 2022; Oerlikon to acquire INglass and HRSflow; Wirthwein builds new production hall; Polykemi invests in its first US facility
13 TPE development guided by Covid Thermoplastic elastomers are in big demand in medical products such as face masks. Peter Mapleston writes about new soft plastics, including some containing recycled and bio-based materials
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25 Plastics under the hood Using plastics to reduce weight and costs in vehicles is no longer enough. The automotive industry is looking for new materials to meet increasingly more demanding under- the-hood applications. Mark Holmes reports
37 What’s new in joining technologies A range of joining technologies are available to meet a variety of assembly requirements for plastic components in many key industries. Mark Holmes looks at some recent developments
50 Diary
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