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Earth Day 2019: Reinventing Reuse with Ocean-Bound Plastics Initiatives
A look at new products and initiatives to help curb ocean-bound plastics, including HP, adidas and Dow.
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SABIC & Partners Collaborate to Produce 'Revolutionary' Thermoplastic Composite Vehicle Panel
Cost-effective and lightweight vehicle panels produced using SABIC’s Udmax tape in a one-shot compression molding process challenges panels made of metal or thermosets.
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No-Compromise Extrusion Water and Vacuum Tanks Designed for Medical Tubing
Downstream extrusion equipment expert Bob Bessemer set out to design the perfect water and vacuum sizing tanks for medical tubing. He just may have pulled it off.
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Why the Executive Perspective Is Essential for Adopting Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing Media, our sister publication, takes a closer look at how successfully implementing additive manufacturing demands simultaneous change across five different parts of the business.
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First Production of Virgin Polystyrene from Only Depolymerized Material
INEOS Stryrolution completes test runs producing virgin PS from 100% recycled styrene monomer—practical proof of the recyclability of polystyrene.
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Lead the Conversation, Change the Conversation
Coverage of single-use plastics can be both misleading and demoralizing. Here are 10 tips for changing the perception of the plastics industry at your company and in your community.
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Eastman Launches Chemical Recycling Innovation for Complex Plastic Waste
Eastman’s ‘carbon renewal technology’ can recycle difficult to recycle plastic waste such as flexible packaging and films.
Read MoreCompounding & Sheet Extrusion Combined in 'Direct-to-Sheet' Tech
PTi, Farrel Pomini team on sustainable technology platform that combines compounding and sheet extrusion at extremely high filler loadings.
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Arevo to Produce 3D-Printed Carbon Fiber Unibody Bike Frames
The Arevo frame is made as a single part, in contrast to current composite frames, which are made of many parts glued together.
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Injection Overmolding Widens Horizons For Composites Processor
A specialist in thermoset composites since the 1960s, CCP Gransden is a relative newcomer to thermoplastic composites and to injection molding. Its exploration of organosheet overmolding has opened up new potential.
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Purer Grade of ABS Makes for Better Parts and Processes
ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) made with the mass polymerization process offers an array of benefits beyond what you’d expect from this venerable material. Whiter, purer, easier and oftentimes less expensive to process all add up to a high-value engineering resin.
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Plastics: Lead the Conversation, Change the Conversation
Perhaps more than any time in its history, plastics as a material is under greater scrutiny than ever before. How will the industry that uses it as its primary raw material respond?
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