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Extrusion

Don’t Overlook the Feed Section

Most extrusion screw designers often do not design the feed section with the same rigor as other sections. This is odd since nothing goes through the screw that doesn’t first go through the feed section.

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Additives

NIOSH-Industry Collaboration for Safe Use of Nanomaterials

NIOSH has created a field studies team that aims to establish partnerships with companies that produce or use engineered nanomaterials in order to expand and share knowledge of appropriate health and safety practices.

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Solvay Invests in Thermoplastic Composites

Solvay Specialty Polymers, Alpharetta, Ga., announced at the K 2013 show in Dusseldorf that it has reached an agreement to acquire a financial interest in Canadian-based Aonix Advanced Materials, Ottawa, Ont.

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sustainability

PS Recycling Project Launched in Montreal

The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), along with the city of Montreal and other partners, is embarking on a polystyrene recycling project that it hopes will be a model for future endeavors of this type.

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Film Extrusion

News Aplenty In Extrusion

Last month brought a spate of developments that extrusion processors should find interesting.

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Melt Flow Rate Testing—Part 5

There are two points in the manufacturing supply chain where a determination of average molecular weight (MW) is important. The first is when the material is first received by the molder. The second is after molding.

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Commodity Resins

Mid November Commodity Resin Prices Flat to Soft

Prices of the four major commodity thermoplastics are projected to be a bit lower or remain flat (especially in the case of PE) as the year comes to an end.

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Drying

Web Connectivity: the ‘Missing Link’ To Molding Machines & Auxiliaries

Web services technology is being utilized today by many molding companies to enhance their molding operations performance, expand uptime, and obtain supplier support in shorter time for very low cost.

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Resin Conveying

Web-Enabled Auxiliaries Save Time And Shoe-Leather in Molding Plant

Internet connectivity for plastics equipment is a relatively new and growing technology. Here’s how it works at Samtec.

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Headlines from the K 2013 Show

Here’s just a taste of the innovations on display, a selection of the top headlines not covered in our September show preview.

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How do you consume media?

We live in an age of lists, as media outlets attempt to rearrange all the day’s events into a numbered format (even the assassination of President Kennedy). Inundated though we are, there are stories that that are better told with numbers.

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Packaging

Stackable, Recloseable Package Hits Store Shelves

Clear Lam’s revolutionary PrimaPak debuts as package for pretzels.

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