Additives

Extrusion

EXTRUSION: System Precisely Meters Blowing Agents

Blowing agents pumped in quantities proportional to extruder speed.

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Biopolymers

Metabolix Sells Bioplastics Business

With the sale of its business this month to food and bioengineering Korean giant CJ CheilJedang, Metabolix exits the bioplastics business.

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Additives

Great Lakes Opens New Global Flame Retardant R&D Center

New center includes applications development area includes large-scale and molding equipment.

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color

Science Shows How Colors Affect Us

Take a look at our September special supplement “Do You Do Color Right?”, and do explore TheGreatCourses.com on color science and so much more.

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color

Automotive Color Predictions for 2020

BASF’s Color Excellence Team comes up with head-turning colors by region.

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Packaging

Do You Do Color Right?

This supplement is here to help.

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best practices

How This Processor Does Color Right

A film extruder shares some of its insights.

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best practices

Avoid These Three Mistakes to Get the Most from Color

Here are the key misconceptions and common practices that keep processors from reaching the heights of coloring proficiency. Find out if you’re stumbling into these pitfalls, and learn how and why you should swerve around them

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best practices

Five Effective Ways to Control Color

A 50-year veteran in color-concentrate production and use shares practices to help you make better color decisions and generate less scrap. To specify color correctly and communicate your specs to your color supplier requires understanding of the “Five U’s.”

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Construction

K 2016 Preview: Materials & Additives

Driving the wide range of new developments in engineered plastics and additives are higher performance, safety, and sustainability.

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