NEWS
120-plus exhibitors signed up for compounding/recycling shows
More than 120 companies have now booked stands at the Compounding World Expo and the Plastics Recycling World Exhibition, which will take place in adjacent halls at Messe Essen in Germany on 27-28 June 2018. “We’ve seen a rush of bookings during October and November and now have more than 120 companies signed up for the exhibitions,” said Matt Wherlock, AMI’s Exhibition Sales Manager. “Places are continuing to fill up fast, with many stand sizes and key positions close to selling out,” he added. Companies that have booked stands in recent months include Biesterfeld, Buhler Sortex, Campine, Comac, Dow Corning, DuPont, Elix Polymers, Entex, Ettlinger, Gneuss, HPF/Quarzwerke, Interface Polymers, Kisuma, Lapp Engineering, Mitsui,
BD builds flagship US facility
Medical device company Becton Dickinson (BD) has broken ground on a $60m upgrade of its 15-year-old Columbus- East facility in Nebraska. This will add 6,400m2
of
space and turn the site into the company’s flagship plastic injection moulding manufacturing facility when the project is completed by 2021, said the company.
BD has two other sites
in Nebraska at Holdrege and Broken Bow and employs a total of 2,500 people across the state. �
www.bd.com
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Solvay, Starlinger, Vecoplan, Velox and many more suppliers of machinery, equipment, polymers, additives, compounds and related services. Admission to the Compounding
NGR, Tecnova, Unipetrol, Van Werven, Vertellus, WTH and Zeppelin. They join the fast-growing list of
exhibitors that includes Aquafil, Azo, Brabender, Buss, Coperion, Farrel Pomini, Imerys, IMI Fabi, Kaneka, KraussMaffei Berstorff, Leistritz, Maag, Mondo Minerals, MPI Chemie, Nord- son, Omya, Polyplastic Compounds,
World Expo and the Plastics Recycling World Exhibition plus their associated conferences and seminars will be free of charge. The events are organised by AMI, Compounding World and Plastics Recycling World. Exhibition packages start at €2,700 shell-scheme space plus
for a 9 m2
unlimited exhibitor passes and extensive marketing support. For details, contact Matt Wherlock at
matthew.wherlock@ami.international or on +44 117 314 8122. Alternatively, visit the exhibition websites at: �
www.compoundingworldexpo.com �
www.plasticsrecyclingworldexpo.com
Intelligent Fingerprinting partners with Europlaz
Intelligent Fingerprinting has signed a three-year deal with the medical device manufac- turing specialist Europlaz to produce critical components for the cartridge element of its Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System. Both companies are based in the UK. Europlaz specialises in injection moulded plastic components, sub-assemblies and finished medical devices. It has already worked with Intelligent Fingerprinting on its single-use cartridge for drug screening, including the use of precision moulding to create a ‘living hinge’ that supports the cartridge’s
INJECTION WORLD | November/December 2017
The deal covers components for a drug screening system
buffer clip, and other features for the secure sliding cover. The Intelligent Finger- printing system consists of single-use, tamper-evident cartridges for sample collection and a portable analysis unit. The cartridge uses lateral flow assay technology and fluores-
cence-labelled antibodies to detect specific drugs or their metabolites in eccrine sweat collected from a single fingerprint. It can test for cocaine, opiates, cannabis and ampheta- mines simultaneously. �
www.europlaz.co.uk �
www.intelligentfingerprinting.com
www.injectionworld.com
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