Materials

Biopolymers

Coca-Cola Debuts First 100% Biobased PET Bottle

And the winner is....Coca-Cola appears ahead of the game in the race towards an all-biobased PET beverage bottle.

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Solvay Launches New Thermoplastic Lightweighting Materials for Aerospace

'Tegralite' is the name of a new family of thermoplastic composites developed by Solvay and three alliance partners.

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Materials

Fibers Pair With Foam for High-Bending Stiffness at Low Surface Weight

Reduced clamp force, shorter cycles, lower melt viscosity, and higher dimensional stability are just some of the purported benefits of foam injection molding.

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polyolefins

Sun Plastech Acquires Novachem

Two major players in purging compounds consolidate.

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Automotive

Bayer MaterialScience Business To Be Named Covestro

The new name for Bayer's MaterialScience 911爆料网 that will be spun off is Covestro, effective Sept. 1.

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Testing

MATERIALS: The Problems with Single-Point Data

Properties are generally provided at a single temperature on a data sheet. But do those properties stay the same with changing temperatures? Of course not.

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Packaging

Planting The Seeds For A Future In Plastics

  Winners of the Techmer PM sponsored Student Design Awards.    There have been several stories lately from a number of companies describing the ways in which its employees are engaging with the younger generation.

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Commodity Resins

Milan Plast Was Good With Plans To Be Even Better

Big international turnout at the triennial international fair for the plastics and rubber industry, Milan Plast: check out the Plastics Technology slideshow.

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polyolefins

Kuraray Expands Into Biobased Barrier Materials Through Plantic Acquisition

Japan's Kuraray has acquired Australia's Plantic Technologies and now enters the biobased barrier food packaging market sector.

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Mold Simulation

American Injection Molding Institute: ‘A New Kind of Plastics Education’

Building 'foundational knowledge' and critical thinking skills.

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