Plastics Manufacturing Center
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E128 · (570) 321-5533
PMC Partners in Excellence
The Plastics Manufacturing Center (PMC) at Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of the top plastics technology centers in the country with extensive material testing laboratories, industrial scale process equipment, world-class training programs, and highly skilled consulting staff.
The PMC can assist with new product development, material selection, testing and analysis, custom compounding, process technology, and workforce development. The PMC accesses over $2,000,000 of on-site, industrial-scale process and testing equipment.
Customized on-site training programs are provided by plastics professionals. Industrial seminars offer participants the opportunity to attend short courses on plastics materials and processes. Processes include Injection Molding, Extrusion, Blow Molding, Rotational Molding, and Thermoforming.
The PMC will be an active participant in the growth and success of plastics processing industries in Pennsylvania and throughout America. We expect our clients to show tangible, monetary evidence of growth through direct involvement with the PMC.
Plastics Manufacturing Center Pilots Employee-Certification Program
New Equipment
A new state-of-the-art, all-electric injection-molding machine was commissioned in the plastics department at Penn College. This represents a significant advance in technology, maintaining the world leadership position of our plastics department.
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA creates pathways to commercialization for new and existing companies, entrepreneurs, and researchers by providing the capital, knowledge, and networks to compete in the global marketplace. Through the Technology Commercialization Group (TCG), they solve product development and get-to-market challenges by tapping the talents and knowledge of the university, government, and private partners that comprise the Technology Commercialization Network (TCN). As an innovation intermediary, Ben Franklin identifies opportunities to create research and development consortia among universities, government, and industrial partners to tackle technology challenges that can become the basis for the next wave of innovation.