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sustainability

Commercial-Scale Chemical Recycling at Work

Nexus founder and CEO Jeff Gold discusses the company’s chemical recycling technology and process.

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'Failing Faster' as a Winning Product Development Strategy

Sporting-goods OEM Wilson/DeMarini turns to new additive-manufacturing technology to turbocharge product development by blazing through failed iterations to find a winning design more quickly.

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sustainability

PSU Outperforms PC in Sanitary Biotech Sight Gauge

Manufacturer of single-use systems for biotech applications opts for PSU over PC for improved heat and chemical resistance.

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Is Your Shop Farming or Hunting?

Decoupling your company’s R&D and product development from its manufacturing can help keep your new project pipeline full.

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Digital Demos

SACO AEI Polymers: New Technologies for Material Selection and Field Support

This video demonstrates virtual tools that SACO AEI has launched to help customers search, select, purchase and get processing support for additives that meet their specific polymer system needs, production process and desired product benefits. (Sponsored)

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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: PVC & PVDC

How a class of materials based on chlorine chemistry became part of the landscape.  

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best practices

Secrets of Quick Part-to-Part Changeovers

Part-to-part changeovers can be fast only with proper advance planning. Here’s what you need to know to convert from sluggish to swift in job changes.

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Tooling Know-How

What You Need to Know About Blade Ejectors: Part 3

Follow these guidelines to prevent premature wear, flash and galling. The focus here is on corner radii.

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High-Torque Twin & Novel Feeding System Debut for Compounding

ENTEK takes the wraps off three innovations aimed at increasing productivity.

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iMFLUX Plots Path to Autonomous Molding

iMFLUX used a virtual event in May to lay out a path to autonomous molding where “the machine is making intelligent decisions on behalf of the operator.”

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sustainability

Foam PP to Improve Sustainability and Cost

Cost-effective use of PP is a major consideration, but the biggest driver of PP foaming is pursuit of sustainability.  

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Additives

Antimicrobial Based on Elemental Zinc Shown to be Effective Against Super-Resistant Fungus

Parx Materials’ Seniconcentrate technology now shown to be effective against super-resistant fungus by 87%.  

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Process Cooling