Horners Awards 2014 Winners Announced at Interplas

After much anticipation, the winners of the two Horners Awards were announced at this year's Interplas.

The highly innovative ‘self-sealing’ obturation points, Propoints, has been announced as the winner of the Horners Award for Plastics Design and Innovation 2014 and M+H Plastics’ Braille Tubes has been confirmed as the winner of the Horners Bottlemaker Award 2014.

Propoints are made up of a central plastic core surrounded by hydrophilic plastic polymer and were specifically developed for the root canal environment and drew upon contact lens technology. They use polymer plastic technology to absorb moisture already in the canal to expand and create a seal. Propoints are a ‘smart’ plastic polymer, as they only expand where there is room to do so and up to a maximum of 20%.

M+H Plastics has developed an innovative new method of printing Braille characters directly onto plastic packaging. A high-build varnish is used to print the dots directly onto the product using extremely accurate measures, ensuring the height of the Braille alphabet remains uniform throughout the packaging run.
 

 
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