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‘Collaborative’ Robot Works Alongside Human Workers
The goal of Baxter's builder is to make U.S. manufacturing more globally competitive by making automation more affordable and easier to implement.
Read MoreRPET Prices Stable
Recycled PET prices are perhaps a penny above where they were in June and seem to be going nowhere.
Read MoreConverter of Polyolefin Nonwoven Product 'Goes' 100% Bio-Based
Here’s an unusual product just commercially launched by Fitesa, Simpsonville, S.C., a leading company in the design and manufacture of nonwoven fabrics for the global hygiene and personal-care markets: it’s a new performance nonwoven that is composed of two-biobased polymers in a sheath-core, bicomponent configuration. The sheath is made of 100% I’m green PE from Braskem (U.S. office in Philadelphia, Pa.) while the core uses 100% biobased Ingeo PLA from NatureWorks, Minnetonka, Minn.
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Transparent PC Used in Fully-Integrated LED Light Engine
A medium-viscosity, easy releasing grade of Makrolon PC from Bayer MaterialScience, Pittsburgh, is used for the lens of a new LED light engine for lighting fixtures.
Read MoreLikely Impact of McDonald's Phase Out of PS Hot Beverage Cups
How will the recent decision by McDonald’s to use paper cups after a successful large-scale test and eliminate millions of polystyrene hot beverage cups in the U.S. affect PS prices? Mark Kallman, director of client services for PS, PVC and engineering resins at purchasing consultants Resin Technology, Inc. (resinpros.com) ventures that this move will definitely impact PS demand in the long run, which could result in lower prices for processors.
Read MoreFKuR Distributes Braskem’s ‘Green’ PE in U.S. & Canada
Germany’s FKuR Plastics Corp. (U.S. office in Cedar Park, Texas), a compounder of bioplastics for flexible packaging, is now a distributor in the U.S. and Canada of biobased polyethylene from Brazil’s Braskem
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Continuous-Glass/Thermoplastic Wins Award in Composite Pressure Pipe
Celstran continuous-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite (CFR-TP) from Ticona, Florence, Ky., is used in the new Fiberflex-11 pressure pipe from Composite Fluid Transfer of Kilgore, Texas.
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Reclaim System Pays Off for Foam Film Processor
A recent move to reclaim in-house production scrap paid off in six months for one processor of foamed film.
Read MoreK-Tron Adopts Coperion Name
Effective this month, K-Tron, Pitman, N.J., a global supplier of feeding, dosing, and pneumatic conveying equipment and systems, will operate under the brand name Coperion K-Tron.
Read MoreAnti-Stat Coater Integrated in Pull-Roll Frame
Sheet systems supplier Processing Technologies International (PTi), Aurora, Ill., has developed a new, patented system that integrates an anti-static coater into the frame of the pull-roll unit of its G Series roll stand.
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Uniloy Milacron Opens Blow Molding Lab, Unifies Global Market Strategy
Uniloy Milacron, Tecumseh, Mich., has launched two new initiatives.
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