Silicone & Medical

Using a delicious Oscar Mayer wiener as its muse, the Oscar Mayer Hot Dog Straw mirrors the same size and color of a delicious, cooked dog and is made using food safe soft silicone to replicate the feel of a real Oscar Mayer hot dog. The Hot Dog Straw is available for pre-order nationwide on oscarmayer.com/hotdogstraw while supplies last.

Trendco USA has committed to creating 292 jobs over five years at a facility in the new Regional East Alabama Logistics (REAL) Park off Interstate 85 in Macon County.
Trendco is an early-stage company that has been producing medical-grade examination gloves in Louisiana through a partnership with another company. For the Tuskegee operation, it plans up to install as many as 10 glove production lines at the REAL Park location.

Ashland has launched iSolve™ pharma, a pharmaceutical customer portal where customers can easily access robust information about the company’s pharmaceutical offerings and other important related business material such as our most recent innovations, literature, product, and regulatory data sheets and more.

Hydrogen chloride (HCl) has many different applications in the chemical industry. Use of this reaction gas allows manufacturers to turn low-energy raw materials into reactive intermediates for down-stream production steps. WACKER, for instance, uses HCl for manufacturing silicones, pyrogenic silica and polysilicon for the solar and semiconductor industries.

Shin-Etsu Chemical announced it would make a new ¥100 billion ($703 million) investment in its silicones portfolio, one of the core parts of its Functional Materials business segment.

Oldrati Group continues its expansion by inaugurating the second Turkish factory. 10 years after the opening of the first Oldrati Kauçuk plant in Bursa, Oldrati has completed the construction of the new plant in the city of Eskisehir.

Silicone and other siloxane-based polymers are in countless consumer products, but their popularity comes with a catch: Almost all of them are thrown into landfills after one use.

Pioneering research at Bowling Green State University, however, could help change that.

Dr. Joe Furgal, an associate professor in the BGSU Chemistry Department, is spearheading a research project studying the use of room-temperature depolymerization to recycle or upcycle silicone, thus keeping them out of landfills and saving massive amounts of energy required to create new polymers.

Bausch + Lomb Corp. announced the U.S. launch of Bausch + Lomb INFUSE Multifocal silicone hydrogel (SiHy) daily disposable contact lenses, which are being manufactured in the company’s Rochester facility.