Your Global Compounder of Custom Engineered Thermoplastics Dale Gregg has been developing creative solutions to challenging business and industry problems for decades. When a friend explained how his son had crushed his hand while moving sections of heavy hose in the oil fields of Canada, Gregg grabbed a napkin and made a quick sketch of a device that could potentially help avoid this type of injury in the future. “In many industries, like fracking, for example, there might be dozens of guys dragging pipe and hose around the fields all day long,” he explained. “The hoses are usually too wide to get your hands around. They may be un- der high pressure, or even filled with hazardous gas or chemicals. The only way to move them is to bend down, hug them to your body and walk

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