Using ambient moisture, this polymer compound writhes and contorts independent of any stimulus making for pretty cool video and some interesting potential applications.
Clear, amber or red; headlights, taillights and turn signals: those are just some of the constantly changing jobs that custom automotive molder TASUS pulls in and out of its presses, requiring a flexible drying system to handle the ever-changing run list.
No matter the process: everyone has to dry resin, everyone has to convey it, and everyone can use some training. Plastics Technology鈥檚 online Knowledge Centers were a popular destination among our readers in 2013 as they beefed up on a variety of topics.
K technology previews, resin pricing, and tips and troubleshooting for injection molding fill times, mold temperature control, and twin-screw compounding, were among the most viewed articles for 2013 at Plastics Technology.
T-shirt bags (coming back vs. being banned); bioplastics with barrier, and an ultra-challenging lens application were among the blog topics that attracted the most page views in 2013 at Plastics Technology.
Can polyethylene terephthalate (PET) thermoforms enjoy the same recycling rates as their bottle brethren? Increasing thermoformed packaging reclaim, and that of other rigid plastics, will likely just be one goal of a new collaboration between SPI and ACC.
For David Lyons, the off-the-grid deep-sea-fishing vacation was a welcome and well-deserved break. Project manager for West Point, Georgia鈥檚 development authority, Lyons has spent the last few years swept up in the whirlwind of investments and projects accompanying the Korean automotive manufacturing beachhead that鈥檚 being established in the American Southeast.
We live in an age of lists, as media outlets attempt to rearrange all the day鈥檚 events into a numbered format (even the assassination of President Kennedy). Inundated though we are, there are stories that that are better told with numbers.