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The Accelerator adds three new tenants, including GE Aviation

MBJ Staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:20:19 +0000

HATTIESBURG — The Accelerator, the University of Southern Mississippi’s technology commercialization center, has added new tenants GE Aviation, Radiance Technologies and Vatican Capital. GE Aviation, which just opened a new aircraft engine composite parts production facility in Ellisville has leased space at The Accelerator and is working with Mississippi Polymer Institute (MPI) and Jones County [...]

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Polymer group connects client with manfacturer

MBJ Staff — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:30:19 +0000

HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi reports the Mississippi Polymer Institute at helped connect a client with a manufacturer that resulted in 18 new jobs and $2.5 million in increased sales. When MPI was contacted by a company seeking assistance with a custom injection molding project, Institute executives provided a list of respectable [...]

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MEP.ms: Polymer group assists in plant expansions

MBJ Staff — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:52:06 +0000

HATTIESBURG — The Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Mississippi (MEP.ms) reports the Mississippi Polymer Institute provided outstanding technical assistance to four Mississippi-based manufacturing companies, yielding $2.9 million in direct financial impact during the 2012 fiscal year. This assistance also led to the creation of 18 news jobs in the state. This work was reflected by independent [...]

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ATK first module to NASA made completely from composites

MBJ Staff — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:12:11 +0000

IUKA — Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has delivered a technological first to NASA — a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design that has the potential to reduce the overall weight of future manned launch vehicles. Full-scale structural testing will be performed at NASA’s Langley [...]

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USM’s new polymer degree gets IHL approval

MBJ Staff — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:12:38 +0000

HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymers and High Performance Materials has gained approval from the State Institutions of Higher Learning to offer an undergraduate degree in polymer science and engineering, the first of its kind in Mississippi according to USM. The focus of the program is education and research in the [...]

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Hybrid Plastics technology used in pioneering procedure

MBJ Staff — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:05:34 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Medical history was made in recently with the world’s first synthetic organ transplant, according to Hattiesburg-based Hybrid Plastics. A terminally ill cancer patient received a new lease on life with the transplant of a synthetic trachea made from a POSS nanocomposite polymer. The composite made from POSS and PCU (Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane & [...]

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Mexican conglomerate to buy Coast plant

Associated Press — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:14:08 +0000

BAY ST. LOUIS — DAK Americas LLC has agreed to buy Wellman Inc.’s PET plastics plant in Bay St. Louis for $185 million. DAK Americas is a unit of Mexican conglomerate Alfa SAB. The company announced the deal June 16, according to the Mississippi Press. The purchase amount includes a cash payment and assumption of [...]

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Solvay suspending production, cutting jobs

Wally Northway — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:09:09 +0000

BAY ST. LOUIS — Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC, is suspending production at its facility in Bay St. Louis that makes the plastic PrimoSpire SRP (self-reinforced polyphenylene) in order to refocus its people and assets on research and development to fully commercialize the product. The move will eliminate 14 positions at the site while retaining five [...]

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United Solutions expanding

Wally Northway — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:11:38 +0000

SARDIS — United Solutions, a manufacturer of plastic house wares, is expanding operations at its manufacturing facility in Sardis. The expansion will allow the company to increase production of its consumer plastics products. United Solutions currently employs 75 full-time workers, and as a result of the expansion, the company will hire at least 20 new [...]

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