Engineering Resins

Additives

At NPE2024, Follow These Megatrends in Materials and Additives

Offerings range from recycled, biobased, biodegradable  and monomaterial structures that enhance recyclability to additives that are more efficient, sustainable and safer to use.  

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sustainability

Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group helps industrial partners tackle the sustainability challenges presented by fiber-reinforced composite materials.

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Commodity Resins

Prices for All Volume Resins Head Down at End of 2023

Flat-to-downward trajectory for at least this month.

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The Fantasy and Reality of Raw Material Shelf Life: Part 1

Is a two-year-old hygroscopic resin kept in its original packaging still useful? Let’s try to answer that question and clear up some misconceptions.

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EV Chargers Made From Renewable PC

SABIC is enabling Charge Amps to manufacture electric vehicle (EV) chargers with a housing made from certified renewable PC, a first for the industry.  

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3D Systems’ Accura AMX Resin Withstands Harsh Thermal Environments

Formnext 2023: The resin material is well suited for the testing of high-temperature components in applications such as HVAC, consumer appliances, motor enclosures, fixtures, mounts, stators, molding/tooling and more.

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PC Copolymer Formulated With PCR Content

SABIC announced the availability of its LNP Elcrin Copolymer, now with higher recycled content levels.

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Imagine A World Where Polymers Were First

One reason for the disproportionate attention that plastics receive in the environmental conversation is that they are newcomers. Perhaps if we had been relying on them for thousands of years, we’d view them differently.    

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Composites Materials for FDM Printing

Materials are formulated for use on any pellet-based fused deposition modeling printer.

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New Tinius Olsen VectorExtensometer testing
Vacuum conveying powders to extruders compounding
Maguire Ultra
Go Beyond Blending
ColorStream
Shuttle Mold System
Special steels for reinforced plastics
Uway LLC
ColorStream