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How Additive Manufacturing Can Help, not Hinder, Injection Moldability of New Designs
Four cost drivers—design for moldability, mold-base size, internal componentry, polish/custom finishing—dictate the financial and processing success of a molded part design. Learn how 3D printing can assist this process, while also understanding its potential pitfalls.
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Cling Wrap Made from Potato Waste
Australia’s Great Wrap to expand into U.S. with home compostable cling wrap and its refillable dispenser made from recycled PET bottles.
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Recycling: What's Ahead in Advanced Sorting Technology
As the industry tries to ramp up recycling, there are several innovative sorting solutions in the offing—ranging from enhanced optical sorting technologies and chemical tracers to advanced solutions based digital watermarks and artificial intelligence.
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Can Plastic Recyclates be Welded Ultrasonically?
What is possible with ultrasound? Will the result with recycled plastics material actually be worse than with standard material? Do we have to adapt our technology?
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How Much L/D Do You Really Need?
Just like selecting the extruder size and drive combination, the L/D should be carefully evaluated.
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Chemical and Mechanical Recycling Can Coexist. Will They?
Emerging technologies present advantages and challenges
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Take Proper Care in Feeding Your Extruder
Everything that happens in an extruder starts at the feed throat, so proper attention to that zone’s temperature pays off in quality and productivity.
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Recycling Challenges Become Opportunities with the Aid of New Technologies
The latest recycling equipment on view at the K Show handles more materials, is more efficient and produces higher quality output than ever achieved before.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Polyphenylene Oxide
Behind the scenes of the discovery of PPO.
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10 Ways to Improve Twin-Screw Compounding Performance
There are many techniques known to operators and plant engineers for increasing the performance of a twin-screw compounding extruder.
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Biobased PEF Shows Low CO2 Footprint
Peer-reviewed study by nova-Institute of Avantium’s PEF would result in significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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How Many Parts Will My Mold Make? Part 1
Follow these guidelines to extend the life of a mold and reduce repair costs.
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