Allegheny Launches into Healthcare Sector
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by Anna Stubna
3w ago
Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, March 2024: To meet the growing needs of the healthcare industry, Allegheny Performance Plastics is proud to announce the addition of clean and white room environments, including a dedicated automated work cell to be completed later this year. The healthcare industry, with services spanning preventative care, diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation and support, encompasses many applications that are a natural fit for injection molding high-performance materials. The unique customer experience delivered by Allegheny guarantees the precision, reliability, and performance ..read more
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Allegheny Forms Strategic Alliance with Alpine
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by Anna Stubna
1M ago
Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, February 2023: Allegheny Performance Plastics is proud to announce a strategic alliance with Alpine Advanced Materials, a leading expert in the design, prototype and supply of custom-engineered parts. This announcement formalizes the work we have been doing in conjunction with Alpine on their flagship multi-scale reinforced polymer HX5®. Both companies are jointly pursuing opportunities with customers to leverage HX5 and Alpine’s design and prototype expertise with Allegheny’s manufacturing excellence. “We work with a lot of materials, and HX5 is unique in how it comb ..read more
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Allegheny Supports Space Applications
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by Anna Stubna
11M ago
We’re focusing on helping our space customers improve and resolve the unique challenges they face, including: improving payload efficiency via light-weighting, component and material reliability in a harsh environment, and the need for an enabling, rapid, iterative part development process. There are many potential space applications for our high-performance polymer parts including: structural components to replace aluminum, lens holders, actuators, waveguides, randomes and heat sinks. As an injection molder, we’re uniquely positioned to support our customers with our tool manufacturing, autom ..read more
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Auto Epcon Conference
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by Anna Stubna
11M ago
This month Tanner Alauzen, our Prelaunch and External Tooling Engineer here at Allegheny, had the opportunity to present at the 2023 SPE Auto Epcon Conference in Troy, Michigan. The conference, which includes a number of speakers on emerging topics in the automotive industry, is held annually for SPE members. You can learn more about Tanner’s presentation on Thermoplastic Composite Injection Overmolding, or TPC-IOM, on our website here. Allegheny’s work in exploring this new technology is just a part of what makes us unique. We were grateful for the chance to present our information, as well a ..read more
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Allegheny in Space
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by Anna Stubna
1y ago
We’re celebrating a milestone this month – we have manufactured more than 40,000 critical to function parts that are now in space! Our high-performance thermoplastic parts are used in applications requiring maintenance of properties at an extreme temperature range, extremely low outgassing, high levels of cleanliness, and are lightweight. We have developed manufacturing capabilities and processes that are tailored to the requirements of space – such as certified secondary cleaning processes. Thank you to our valued customers for entrusting us to supply these critical performance part ..read more
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2022 Year in Review
Allegheny Performance Plastics Blog
by Anna Stubna
1y ago
Happy New Year! We enjoyed putting together this year in review video, and we’re grateful to our customers, partners and entire team for making it such a memorable one. We’re looking forward to seeing what 2023 has to bring, together. The post 2022 Year in Review appeared first on Allegheny Performance Plastics ..read more
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Thermoplastic Composite Injection Overmolding in the News
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by Anna Stubna
1y ago
This month AMI’s magazine, Injection World, featured our Thermoplastic Composite Injection Overmolding (TPC-IOM) process, and the demonstrator part we developed in partnership with Solvay. The Injection World article is included below. You can also read the article on their free digital copy online, here. What is TPC-IOM technology? In short, it’s an innovative concept to combine two different material technologies into one hybrid component. The resulting parts would combine the high-strength and stiffness of thermoplastic composites with the high design flexibility and cost-effectiveness of i ..read more
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Ten Tips for Choosing a Plastics Partner
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by Anna Stubna
1y ago
Is it time to start the search for a new injection molder? Everyone knows about the necessity of performing a quality audit. But there are a few other things we’ve learned over the years that have helped us identify a good fit between us and a customer, none of which are covered in the scope of a standard quality audit. Maybe this part is problematic, and you could use some support from a molder on designing for plastic. It could be that your deadline is looming, but you’re still stuck in development. At Allegheny we have a long history of working with our customers to overcome these types of ..read more
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Choosing a Plastics Partner: Tips 8 & 9
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by Anna Stubna
1y ago
For our second to last post of the Top 10 Tips to Consider When Selecting Your Injection Molding Partner, we’re covering tips 8 and 9. Tip 8: Assessing Your Potential Partner’s Creative Problem-Solving Skills This is a good way to determine how much your partner will bring to the table in terms of solving your problem – not just molding a part. Regarding lead times on time critical projects, is the potential supplier considering expediting, providing alternative, custom or creative proposals? While most situations could be solved with an impossible 1-week lead time production tool, this d ..read more
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2022 Holiday Party: Thanks for a great year!
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by Anna Stubna
1y ago
Allegheny employees, with a record number in attendance, gathered for our annual holiday party in early December. We celebrated the changes and the wins this year, and we’re looking forward to what 2023 has to bring! The post 2022 Holiday Party: Thanks for a great year! appeared first on Allegheny Performance Plastics ..read more
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