East Longmeadow, MA: Toner Plastics, Inc, a manufacturer of extruded plastic materials announces their partnership with TCPoly, which has developed proprietary materials that enable 3D printing of value-add parts with enhanced functionalities.  TCPoly’s Ice9™ Flex thermally conductive filament is the world’s highest thermal conductivity 3D printing plastic and can conduct heat 50x higher than traditional […]

Original article by BusinessWest Magazine About Toner Plastics: While we have many of our own proprietary products, our focus is helping our customers to make their products in the U.S. We service several industries, such as point-of-purchase display, children’s crafts, 3D printing, industrial safety, medical, and wire and cable. Toll/contract manufacturing is our specialty. President […]

Original article by BusinessWest Adam Rodrigues, manufacturing fellow with Greentown labs, says his job description can be smashed down to two words: Making matches. That would be matches between startups across the state, and especially those within the 413, and manufacturers in Western Mass. that can help bring a concept to the marketplace. He’s already […]

Anthony Tackett from Tackett Design reviews Toner Plastics filament, offering an interesting perspective on the importance of high-quality filament, optimizing printer settings, and working through a new slicing software.  

Original article by Frank Esposito at Plastics News Aurora Plastics LLC has made its second acquisition of the year, this time buying compounder S&E Specialty Polymers of Lunenburg, Mass., for an undisclosed price. Streetsboro, Ohio-based Aurora – a unit of Chicago private equity firm Wind Point Partners – is moving further into PVC compounding and […]

Original article by Michael Lauzon of Plastics News The Beadery has expanded its product line by acquiring assets of competitor Quality Bead Craft Inc. of Bloomfield, Conn. Beadery is moving acquired molds, processing equipment and inventory to its own injection molding facility in Hope Valley, R.I., where a staff of 35 injection molds proprietary bead […]

Streamline Plastics Co. Inc., Bronx, New York, has merged its operations with The Toner Plastics Group of East Longmeadow, MA. The Toner Plastics Group is focused on injection molding, tooling, extrusion and compounding with operations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Florida. It was started by Steve Graham and his wife Jean in 1989. Founded in […]

The Beadery, a company of the Toner Plastics Group, East Longmeadow, Mass., has acquired the assets of Quality Bead Craft Inc., Bloomfield, Conn., a leading U.S. plastic bead manufacturer. The Beadery purchased Quality Bead Craft’s existing finished goods inventory, injection molds, and customer list. Financial terms of the June 23 transaction were not disclosed. Quality […]