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Sustainable Packaging Offered by Cannabis Packaging Company
STO Responsible uses PP formulation that facilitates oxygen-driven biodegradation.
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Volume Resins to Enter New Year Generally on a Downward Pricing Trajectory
Significant decline in raw materials, general year-end slowdown, and resin export and/or import challenges contribute to this trend.
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Nestlé Waters Aims to Achieve 25 Percent Recycled Plastic in its Packaging by 2021
The company says its latest milestone puts it on track to nearly quadruple its use of recycled materials in less than three years.
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Querétaro Makes Its Mark on the Global Injection Molding Map
Millions in foreign direct investment, direct flights from the U.S. and a new fully focused molding/mold making event announce the city’s arrival on the global molding scene.
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Sabic Signs MOU with Plastic Energy for Supply of Recycled Feedstock
Sabic to implement an investment project for the chemical recycling of challenging mixed plastic waste back to the original polymer.
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Here’s a Cost-Saving Tip for Measuring Mold Coolant Flow
Monitor mold-coolant flow with an ultrasonic sensor that clamps on the outside of the cooling line.
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What Types of Injection Molded Parts, Materials Require Vacuum Venting?
Vacuum venting can help overcome injection molding issues such as part burns, short shots, blemishes and more. Here’s where it can apply to your plastics process.
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Glove Waste Recycled through Kimberly-Clark Program
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution sought to reduce waste in its own operations, an obvious target was the high volume of laboratory gloves used by researchers in its facilities.
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'Plug-and-Play' Bioplastic Platform Results in Various Grades of PC
Teysha Technologies' proprietary platform enables development of polymers that combine strength and toughness with hydrolytic breakdown to biologically beneficial byproducts at end of life.
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Nonlinear Modelling: A Proven Mathematical Tool for Efficient Product Development
This approach been shown to be beneficial to crosslinked foam producers and applicable to other types of plastics processors.
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Headlines from Fakuma 2018
Integrating a special low-pressure process into machine controls; novel shop-floor quality-inspection technology; MES systems from machine and controls vendors; and sophisticated in-mold decorating.
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Simplicity Conquers Complexity in Automotive Molding Cells
Six-axis robots are often recommended for complex automation cells, but here’s an example of how cost-effective, three-axis linear robots can be up to the task.
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