The Polymers Center of Excellence (PCE) provides state-of-the-art plastics product design, engineering, and analysis services to the medical, transportation, materials handling, packaging, and consumer products industries.
Partnered with UNC-Charlotte, N.C. State University and the North Carolina Industrial Extension Service, PCE provides molding, extrusion and test laboratories to service companies that purchase, process, design, develop or manufacture products using plastics or rubber.
They also offer workforce training, product development, pilot-volume compounding injection molding and materials testing to help companies:
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Increase the knowledge of their employees
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Provide cost-effective technical support
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Develop emerging technologies
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Increase productivity
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Expand market share
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Shorten time to market
Using its close relationships with the Society of the Plastics Industry, the American Plastics Council, and the Carolinas and Piedmont-Coastal sections of the Society of Plastics Engineers, the center draws upon technical associates with backgrounds in a broad range of plastics areas to provide solutions for plastics application design challenges.
Visit the Polymers Center of Excellence website for more information about workforce training and research and development in the plastics industry.