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How Do You Like Your Acetal: Homopolymer or Copolymer?
Acetal materials have been a commercial option for more than 50 years.
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K 2022: ‘We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years!’
With sustainability top-of-mind in the plastics industry, this was a ground-breaking show for builders of recycling equipment. It also prompted new thinking in thinwall injection molding.
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Solve Processing Problems, Learn Tricks of the Trade: Register Now for Extrusion 2022
Tune into technical presentations that can help make you more money, and mingle with the world’s foremost authorities on extrusion processing.
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Injection Machines Use Novel Two-Stage Molding System
EdeX servohydraulic presses from Taiwan are the first to employ the Inject-EX plasticating system from Md Plastics.
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Plastics Processing Continues to Contract
The September Index signaled a second month of declining activity for plastics processors overall, while custom processors fared even worse.
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Meeting the Social Challenges of Changing an Industry
At K 2022, Milliken highlighted its various sustainability collaborations in addition to technological achievements.
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New Entrant Heartland Polymers Stepping up as Reliable Supplier
Heartland Polymers’ new Alberta, Canada facility will produce 525 KTA propylene and 525 KTA polypropylene. It is expected to stabilize supply chains across the continent.
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Resin Prices Still Dropping
This downward trajectory is expected to continue, primarily due to slowed demand, lower feedstock costs and adequate-to-ample supplies.
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PBT and PET Polyester: The Difference Crystallinity Makes
To properly understand the differences in performance between PET and PBT we need to compare apples to apples—the semi-crystalline forms of each polymer.
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Sustainability Among the Many Niches at Niche Polymer
Founded in 1987, Niche Polymer continues to grow—both organically and through acquisition—by focusing its product-development efforts on ever-changing market needs. Adding value to both industrial and post-consumer scrap is a growing part of this effort.
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Quality Guidelines of Plastic Waste Feedstock for Pyrolysis
Eunomia’s new study on behalf of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste underscores the need for robust collection and sorting systems to supply quality feedstock for chemical and mechanical recyclers.
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Novel System Produces Color on Demand
Ampacet’s FluxQF technology features a quick-dispersion universal carrier with novel machinery that provides automated color blending in quantities down to 50 lb.
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