We have combined two amazing networking events – The Polymers Center Open House with The Carolinas Polymer Business Showcase. Note the new date for the Open House and mark your calendars to attend this dual event. You don't want to miss either of them.

Interested In Exhibiting At The Carolinas Polymer Business Showcase Hosted by SPE Carolinas Section?

The Polymers Center Hosts Maag’s Annual Sales Meeting

Sarah Kim - The First Recipient Of The Joe Bennett Leadership Award

NCEdge, a part of the NC Community College System is a state-sponsored program that provides technical training in production or production support to North Carolina manufacturing businesses. The Polymers Center and NCEdge work together to provide customized courses.

Plastics News Highlights The Polymers Center's Nesting Program  Check out our recent article in Plastics News about our new Nesting Program. We are excited to open our facility to companies interested in expanding into the US market. Our expansion, set to be complete in December, includes 12,000 sq/ft and six new offices - five of which are being set aside to home any company wishing to make our location their domestic office. Contact us to learn more.

New Strand Pelletizer Added To Our Lab

Sesotec is excited to announce their new office location within The Polymer Center in Charlotte, NC.

In May 1848, Henry Bewley, of the Gutta Percha Company of London, patented a process for making flexible syringes and tubes of gutta percha. He described the process as one that involved “filling a suitable mold with a substance in a granular state,” after which he would “subject these molds to a heat sufficient to liquefy the gutta percha, which on subsequent cooling will be found to retain the exact shape or figure of the molds.” [1] His company went on to make various molded and, later, extruded products, including wire coating for submarine cables. One example of his molding process is a coat of arms, pictured below, that resembled “the choicest carved or gilded oak, rosewood, or mahogany,” but was not fashioned by a skilled artist. Instead, it was manufactured “by merely pressing the ungainly lumps into a mold.” With such a mold, thousands of identical products could be manufactured “without the usual expense of artist work.” [2]