20 Oct 2026 // CyTec’s Airtect Partnership, FANUC Award Finalists, TEP’s New Presses, and Plaswire’s Scottish Plans

PlastikMedia: The Morning Brief · Oct 20, 2026 · 2m

In today’s brief:

🔍 CyTec’s Airtect Partnership: CyTec UK becomes an official sales partner for plastic leak detection systems, helping injection moulders protect hot runner moulds and machine nozzles from melt-leak damage.

🏆 FANUC Award Finalists: FANUC UK secures three Plastics Industry Awards finalist places, recognising a UK medical manufacturing project, apprentice Suleymaan Khan, and the Future of Precision Engineering event.

⚙️ TEP’s New Compression Presses: Taylor Engineering & Plastics completes acceptance testing on two 1,200-tonne SMC presses, with production scheduled to begin in…