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How to Create and Use Digital Color Standards for Plastics
Moving to a digital color workflow can help streamline production.
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Future Caps & Closures: More HDPE, More PCR
Industry experts says uses of HDPE in caps and closures will proliferate and will incorporate PCR and PIR. Future designs will “tether” the caps to the bottles as well.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: More on Polycarbonate
The industry has learned a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of polycarbonate during its more than 60-year history, and it would be difficult to imagine a world in which it did not exist.
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Looking to Handle More rPET? Don't Overlook Your Conveying System
There is a lot of important process equipment in PET recycling plants, and pneumatic and mechanical transfer systems connect them all. Downtime due to poor transfer system design, incorrectly applied components, or the lack of maintenance should not be a fact of life. Demand more.
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How Troubleshooting Challenges in the Existing Recycling Ecosystem led to a Revolution of the Industry
Cassie Bradley, INEOS Styrolution’s sustainability and circular economy manager, details how advanced recycling technologies and their integration into communities across the country (and the globe) is key to a future circular economy for plastics.
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How to Form a Hole with a Core Pin: Part 2
Prevent wear, flash, and mold damage with these design methods.
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The Importance of Specific Heat in Screw and Extruder Design
If you ever have to size an extruder drive, knowing the specific heat of the polymer can help you to determine the capability of your equipment.
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Processing Activity Challenged by Production ‘Deficit’
Slowing growth in production and employment activity contrast with strong new orders, resulting in a production activity ‘deficit.’ Custom processors gain.
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Troubleshooting the ‘Mixing Experience’ in Corotating, Intermeshing Twin-Screw Extruders
The metering equipment, twin-screw extruder and downstream systems all must work in concert to control the properties of the final part and manage the process of mixing.
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10 Billion Feet…And Counting
‘Our reason is water.’ Those four words explain a focused strategy that helped Advanced Drainage Systems evolve from a two-man startup into a global supplier of corrugated pipe and water-management solutions with 10 billion+ ft of pipe in service all over the world.
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Matrix Tool Wins Inaugural Hot Shots Competition
The Pennsylvania-based injection molder and moldmaker applied its tooling know how and Sodick injection technology to take home both Hot Shots prizes.
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Danimer Gets Grant from United Soybean Board to Expand Research of High-Oleic Soybean Oil in Production of Biodegradable PHA
The new $400,000 grant will support up-scaling of exclusively grown U.S. based feedstock as a more cost-effective input for the manufacture of PHA.
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