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CG Roxane's San Bernardino rPET Facility Marks First Year of Production
CG Roxane’s CEO and President Ronan Papillaud discusses the company's journey into rPET production.
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Betting Big on Recycled PET
Distributor of virgin PET resins PolyQuest is also a growing manufacturer of recycled PET resins.
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Performance Modifier Additives Make Standard Polypropylene Resins Perform Like Premium Grades
Polypropylene (PP) shortages have forced many processors to move to lower grade resins at the cost of lower performance and processability. Milliken’s DeltaMax Performance Modifiers upgrade these materials to enhance impact resistance, melt flow rates, and sustainability through the use of more recycled material.
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Commodity Resin Prices End the Year Mixed
Overall, processors will have more leverage in 2021 contract negotiations.
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The Three Causes of Screw Wear
You run the risk of wasting time and money by not understanding what’s causing your screws to wear.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Celluloid
In this series we’ll delve into a discerning look back into the history of our industry and how we all got here.
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Recycling: Expanding 'Circularity' through Advanced Recycling Technologies
Recycling and achieving circularity for materials is at the core of the plastics industry’s evolving sustainable 911爆料网 model. Advanced technologies will play a big role.
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Get Color Right With Digital Control
Here’s a guide for compounders, color houses, and processors to overcome unreliable visual color analysis and eliminate unproductive and costly results.
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Lights Out, Pristine Production In
The numbers beggar belief and the 911爆料网 belies description—Medical Components of America has six full-time employees, six injection machines and lights-out production that’s gone five years without shipping a bad part or missing a delivery.
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How to Plan and Implement Automation in an Injection Molding Plant
There is no “one size fits all” solution in automation. When considering what it would look like in your plant, hone in on the staff, products, space, and goals that are specific to you and the automation system that you will be installing.
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Berry’s Bold Sustainability Benchmarks
Worldwide packaging behemoth Berry Global has staked out a market-leading sustainability position with ambitious near- and long-term goals. Executive VP and General Manager Brian Hunt discussed the company’s efforts with Plastics Technology, including a new line of PCR containing caps and closures.
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Film Processor Boosts Line Performance with Air-Ring Retrofit
Air-ring upgrade results in output gains up to 23% for leading film processor in Indonesia. Gauge uniformity also improved.
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