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SPE award-winning ramp is going to the dogs.(Ramp4Paws gets award from Society of Plastics Engineers)
Plastics News, June, 2007 by Bregar, Bill
Byline: Bill Bregar What started out bad - Hadley the Labrador Retriever jumped out of the back of the family station wagon and sprained her front legs - turned into a better dog ramp designed by her owner, Cathy Trauernicht of Potomac, Md. Her Ramp4Paws picked up the Consumer Award at the Society of Plastics Engineers' Antec 2007 in Cincinnati.
The other category, the SPE Industrial Award, went to Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior for the BMW X5 fender module. Plastic Omnium injection molds, paints and assembles the fender module in its plant in Anderson, S.C. The material, thermoplastic polyolefin with a Class-A surface, has a low coefficient of thermal expansion. BMW AG assembles the X5 in Spartanburg, S.C. SPE handed out the honors at an awards banquet...
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