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Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Formerra to Supply Foster Medical Compounds Across the Americas
Following GEON's acquisition of Foster, LLC, this new agreement expands Formerra's healthcare polymer portfolio with life-saving medical compounds. ROMEOVILLE, IL / / July 15, 2025 / Formerra, a leader in performance materials distribution, today announced an agreement with GEON® Performance Solutions that designates Formerra as the preferred distributor of Foster®, LLC medical compounds in North America and South America. The agreement follows GEON's acquisition of Foster, LLC, and builds on Formerra's long-standing, global partnership with GEON for flexible and rigid PVC and filled polypropylene materials. "This expanded partnership equips our customers with a broader set of proven medical-grade solutions while leveraging Formerra's technical guidance and robust supply-chain capabilities," said Kelly Wessner, Vice President, Key Accounts, Formerra. "Foster's brand strength and GEON's investment momentum create powerful growth potential for these materials and our customers." Foster, LLC brings more than 30 years of expertise in custom medical polymer compounding, offering highly engineered formulations. Ranging from radio-opaque and pre-colored to USP Class VI and ISO 10993-compliant grades, Foster materials serve critical applications such as medical device housings, drug-delivery and auto-injector components, surgical tools, and remote patient monitoring devices. "It is a privilege to serve the high-growth healthcare and medical device industry as GEON embarks on this new journey with Foster and Formerra," said Arthur Adams, Chief Commercial Officer, GEON. "Our partnership with Formerra will expand our global footprint and enable us to distribute medical-grade engineered polymers to even more customers." With the addition of Foster, LLC compounds to its portfolio, Formerra further deepens its leading position in the healthcare space by delivering unmatched access to engineered medical polymers, deep regulatory expertise, and responsive logistics across the Americas. Key details --Formerra will distribute Foster®, LLC medical compounds in North and South America.--This agreement adds custom medical-grade compounds to Formerra's existing global access to GEON® PVC and filled PP materials.--Foster®, LLC material applications include medical device housings, drug-delivery and auto-injectors, surgical tools, remote patient monitoring components, and more. About Formerra Formerra is a preeminent distributor of engineered materials, connecting the world's leading polymer producers with thousands of OEMs and brand owners across healthcare, consumer, industrial, and mobility markets. Powered by technical and commercial expertise, it brings a distinctive combination of portfolio depth, supply chain strength, industry knowledge, service, leading e-commerce capabilities, and ingenuity. The experienced Formerra team helps customers across multiple industries to design, select, process, and develop products in new and better ways - driving improved performance, productivity, reliability, and sustainability. To learn more, visit About GEON GEON® Performance Solutions is a global leader in the formulation, development and manufacture of performance polymer solutions. With a portfolio of highly adaptable vinyl and polyolefin polymer technologies as well as a full-service manufacturing business, GEON combines three powerful traditions into a single, customer-focused business. GEON Performance Solutions is a leading innovator in the development of performance material solutions for a broad range of markets including appliances, building & infrastructure, electronics, medical, transportation, power & communications and more. GEON Performance Solutions has approximately 1,200 global associates and 15 world-class manufacturing plants with headquarters in Westlake, Ohio. Please visit us at to learn more. GEON Performance Solutions is a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners. Media Contact Jackie MorrisMarketing Communications Manager, SOURCE: Formerra View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former NFL defensive lineman Oliver Gibson dies at 53
Oliver Gibson, who played defensive tackle in the NFL from 1995 to 2003, has died at the age of 53. Gibson was born and raised in Romeoville, Illinois, and in 1989 USA Today named him the high school defensive player of the year for his exploits at Romeoville High School. He played his college football at Notre Dame and was a fourth-round pick of the Steelers in 1995. After four years with the Steelers, Gibson signed with the Bengals in 1999, and played four more NFL seasons in Cincinnati. In 2015, Gibson was hired as head coach at Romeoville High.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former NFL Veteran Dead Suddenly At 53
Former NFL Veteran Dead Suddenly At 53 originally appeared on The Spun. The football world lost yet another former defensive lineman in the span of several days. Last week saw the passing of former All-Pro defensive end Gerry Philbin, who died at 83 and enjoyed prolific career as a member of the New York Jets from 1964-1972— and now a more recent D-lineman has also transitioned. Advertisement Over the weekend, ex-Steelers/Bengals DT Oliver Gibson reportedly passed away at the age of 53. Gibson spent nine seasons in the NFL as a former fourth-round pick out of Notre Dame and was one of the more underrated pieces to those menacing "Blitzburgh" defenses of the '90s. The Romeoville, IL native was named USA Today's High School Defensive Player of the Year and a Parade Magazine All-American back in 1989 before parlaying that into a scholarship to South Bend and a near-decade long professional career. After his playing days, Gibson returned to his hometown where he took the head coaching job Romeoville High School starting in 2015. Advertisement Gibson appeared in 133 games with 57 starts across his nine years in the National Football League where he recorded 243 tackles, 17.5 sacks, 37 tackles for loss and batted down 10 passes. The 304-pound defensive tackle was also a part of Pittsburgh's 1995 Super Bowl team as a rookie, an accomplishment he relayed to the youth from his home area when he arrived back at Romeoville. Jan 23, 1996; Tempe, AZ, USA; FILE PHOTO; Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle (98) Oliver Gibson during media day of Super Bowl XXX at Sun Devil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Photo By Imagn Images © Copyright Imagn Images© RVR Photos-Imagn Images 'When I talk to the kids, I tell them that everything that they've been through, I've been through. And everywhere that you want to go from Romeoville, you can do it," Gibson said at the time. May he rest in peace. Advertisement Related: Taylor Fritz's Girlfriend Turning Heads At Wimbledon Monday Former NFL Veteran Dead Suddenly At 53 first appeared on The Spun on Jul 1, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
CBS News
27-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Chicago area university helping to solve nation's air traffic controller shortage
As the nation grapples with a shortage of air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is now offering new incentives for older controllers to stay on the job longer. At the same time, one Romeoville university is getting future controllers ready for takeoff faster. At Lewis University, innovation is taking off during their regular summer break; construction that will allow them to grow and help fill the gaps in the country's shortage of air traffic controllers. "I'm not throwing any hammers and nails, but I will watch what they're doing, just to ensure that we get what we asked for," said Michael Julias, director of the Air Traffic Controller Program at Lewis University. Julias, a former air traffic controller, worked at "97 facilities, two centers, two approach controls, and five towers." "I have a very thorough understanding of the job, yes," he said. He now will oversee Lewis University's enhanced air traffic controller program when classes resume on Aug. 25. "This is the type of job that will take you 3 to 4 months to get through the academy, and then possibly another 2 to 3 years to certify, depending on where you're going. So it's a process," he said. Once Lewis gets that enhanced program started, it will be only the seventh facility in the country to offer one, and it could allow students to skip the FAA academy in Oklahoma City. That's where recent graduate Alex Bryjak is headed to in the fall. "The simulations were definitely a bigger challenge than I expected. I mean, it's a very high-stress job, and the program here has pushed me to limits that I didn't know I had," he said. Bryjak said, given the time and training he's had, he's ready for a career overlooking airfields. Staff at Lewis University said they have about 10-15 air traffic control students now, but expect that number to double or triple as they grow the enhanced program.
New York Times
17-05-2025
- Climate
- New York Times
‘Not Normal': Wall of Dust Races Across Central Illinois and Pushes Into Chicago
An avalanche of fine particles rolled across northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday, turning day to night in an area of the country rarely hit by dust storms. A dark cloud suddenly brought near-zero visibility conditions on Friday afternoon to major highways, including Interstates 55 and 57 in Illinois, leading the National Weather Service to fire off a series of warnings about 'dangerous, life-threatening' conditions on roads. As the wave of sifting dust blew into Chicago, it created a dramatic scene. Visibility dropped to a quarter-mile at Chicago Midway International Airport. 'This is not common at all,' Zachary Wack, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Romeoville, 30 miles southwest of Chicago, said on Friday. Friday was the first time that the Weather Service office in Romeoville, which covers a large area that includes Chicago, had ever issued a dust storm warning for the city. Mr. Wack was working as the first warnings were being issued. Then the dust storm arrived at his office. 'Visibility went from unrestricted to less than a quarter mile in less than 10 minutes,' Mr. Wack said. 'It was a brown haze.' Dust storms can occur anywhere in the United States, but they're most common in the desert Southwest and across the southern Great Plains, particularly in late winter and early spring. Deserts, overgrazed land and areas experiencing drought are especially prone to dust storms. Soils across central Illinois are exceptionally dry this spring, and dry soil is easily lifted up into the air by winds. 'And it's not just the topsoil that's dry,' said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center. 'It's going down a couple meters.' Mr. Hurley said the soil moisture in the area was at only 2 to 5 percent, making it among the driest ever. The Weather Service's Romeoville office, which covers much of Northern Illinois and a sliver of northwest Indiana, has issued dust storm warnings for only one other weather event, which happened in 2023 in an agricultural area. That warning did not include Chicago. In the 2023 dust storm, seven people died in a crash involving 72 vehicles on Interstate 55 in central Illinois. Chicago was last affected by a significant dust storm during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, specifically on May 10, 1934, according to Rafal Ogorek, a forecaster with the Weather Service. Dust storms also affected portions of the Chicago metro area in April 1935 and on May 31, 1985. Mr. Ogorek noted that his office could not 'find any documentation that suggested that either of those dust storms produced significant visibility reductions.' The dust storm on Friday formed near Bloomington, Ill., at about 4:30 p.m. local time when thunderstorms in central Illinois generated a push of whipping and howling winds with speeds up to 70 miles per hour. As the winds surged northward, they swept aloft dust from parched farmland. A dust storm generated by winds from thunderstorms is called a haboob, a term often used in the Middle East, where dust storms are common. Thomas Gill, a professor of environmental science and engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, said it was appropriate to call Friday's storm a haboob. Professor Gill said images and videos of Friday's storm 'show the classic appearance of a haboob' with a 'wall of dust rolling across the land.' Traveling at about 60 m.p.h., the dust storm moved into downtown Chicago by about 6:30 p.m. Dan Belko, 51, who lives in the Old Town section of Chicago, said his wife got a warning about the storm on her phone just as they were stepping outside for dinner. 'You could see the change in the atmosphere,' Mr. Belko said. 'It looked like a fog, but not a very thick fog.'
