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Prices of Volume Resins Flat to Down
Key drivers for the trajectory of resin prices include supply outpacing demand, lower feedstock costs, and uncertainty about coronavirus effects.
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3D Printing Helps Close the Loop for Armor’s Circular Economy
Manufacturing 3D printing filament was first a way for Armor to recycle its own reclaimed plastic waste. But now, this business unit is helping to close the loop on sustainability for plastic 3D printed products.
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Materials Part 1: What Annealing Can Do for Your Process
Relatively rapid cooling rates in processing introduce internal stress. If functional problems in use result, annealing may draw down the stress to levels that may not be achievable during processing.
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Time to Learn More About the Real World of Recycling
Next month, Plastics Technology will cover the challenges of recycling with a targeted print and electronic supplement—and a focused webinar—highlighting best practices in processing with high levels of PCR.
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Need Help with a Molding Project to Counter the Coronavirus?
Expert help at a steep discount, and the fee goes to a COVID-19 related charity.
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Plasmatreat Building New Open-Air Plasma Units for Personal Protection Equipment
Coronavirus pandemic has spurred Plasmatreat to develop two new applications.
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Don’t Get Caught in the Flash-and-Shorts Chase
Injection molding’s most common defects can have inverse correlation, where correcting one causes the other, leading to the “chase.”
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Coronavirus Spurs Nonprofit Startup to Develop World's First Compostable N95 PLA Masks
THRIVE Masks aims to produce meltblown PLA masks in the U.S. through Kickstarter campaign.
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New Product ID Technologies For Industry, Retail & Recycling
Confirming material composition and manufacturing source, anti-counterfeiting, waste sorting, and retail check-out scanning may all get a boost from new ID technologies.
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Prent Designs, Forms, Delivers Face Shields to Medical Workers
And all this took just 48 hr. Company will continue making face shields into foreseeable future.
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Follow These Tips to Sanitize Machine Controller Screens & Buttons
Keeping your workers safe from the coronavirus makes it extremely important to institute a sanitizing procedure on all touch surfaces of the controller, screen and operating panel. I did some research and here’s what I found.
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Primex Divisions Join the COVID-19 Fight
Processor’s three divisions producing vital materials for first responders and medical professionals in response to Coronavirus.
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