Materials

Sheet Extrusion

Online Global Marketplace For Polymer Transactions

Service allows polymer buyers and sellers around the world to post products, negotiate, and arrange for shipment.

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Medical

How to Select and Process High-Density Thermoplastic Materials

Choosing and working with high-density materials requires special knowledge in the areas of applications, mold design, and processing. Here are best practices that should increase your understanding.

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MATERIALS: The Problems with Single-Point Data: Part 10

You can predict creep performance of a material over time at a particular temperature by examining how its modulus changes over a range of temperatures.

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Commodity Resins

Search Right Here for Resins, Additives

Resins and additives. They are the ties that bind all plastics processors. Regardless of whether you are injection molding gears, blow molding ducts, or extruding film, you need your hoppers filled with material.

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Automotive

Novel Class of Super-High-Elongation Silicones for Molding

Gelest's "revolutionary" two-component silicone elastomer is aimed at microfluidics and implantable medical devices, with LSR versions underway.

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Several ‘Firsts’ Among 2015 SPE Automotive Innovation Awards

Of the nine award categories, thermoplastics captured five winners.

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Materials

MATERIALS: The Problems with Single-Point Data: Part 9

Time—and not just temperature—governs the behavior of materials under load. Both must be considered when evaluating a polymer for an application.

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Automotive

Styrolution Now Goes by INEOS Styrolution

A little over a year after acquiring BASF's share of Styrolution, INEOS changes names and log to reflect ownwership.

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Materials

A Look Back at 3D Printing in 2015

3D printing is an exciting industry – there’s always something new going on.

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Biopolymers

DuPont and Dow Plan “Merger of Equals”

Two companies will become one--and then three.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing