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'Most Powerful Man in PE' Strikes Again
Gardner Business Media’s PT team once again applauds RTi’s v.p. of PE markets.
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LSR Molders Now Can Tailor Cure Speed, Temperature & Durometer
Elkem’s LSR Select is enabling faster cures at lower temperatures and custom durometer blends. Dosing equipment has caught up with capabilities of this novel material system.
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DSM and CEAD Form Partnership to Explore New Applications & Materials in Additive Manufacturing
The partners will jointly explore Fused Granulate Fabrication (FGF) 3D-printing technologies and materials to develop tooling and end-use parts for automotive, marine, and infrastructure industries.
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Robot & Cobot Makers Are Pairing Up
Sepro adds its Visual controls to UR collaborative robots.
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Nova Chemicals Shares Original Research Demonstrating Viability of Film-to-Film Recycling
Nova’s PE and EPS business teams jointly showcased their offerings and expertise at International Safe Transit Association Forum.
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Extruder Degassing: Is a Central System Right for You?
Centralization vacuum pumps have been used for many decades, most widely used in packaging. For extruder degassing the technology can be useful when several production lines are operated in parallel
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Seeking Better Balance in Medical Molding
Medical injection molding demands shot-to-shot consistency of part and process—a fundamentally challenging task in multicavity molding—is there better path to flow balance?
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Could the Plastics Industry Become Collateral Damage in a Trade War?
The plastics industry is a global one, and at this time, it’s caught in the transcontinental crossfire of a slow simmering trade war.
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Minding Your P’s and Q’s (and Your I’s and O’s) in Medical Molding
Process validation—including Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ)—is a necessary but time consuming procedure, what if you could speed it up?
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Prices of PE, PP, PS Up; Flat-to-Down for PVC, PET
Potential for short-lived upward pricing trajectory possible for the polyolefins, PS.
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Polymers that Change Fluorescence or Color When Under Mechanical Load Under Investigation
A Swiss-Japanese university team is investigating a sensor molecule (“mechanophore”) that emits fluorescent light that could be used as a built-in warning for when parts are near failure.
Read MorePlastics Processing Held Steady in March
Custom processors, in particular, fared better in Q1, as did processors with 100+ employees.
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