End Markets for Plastics
Plastics are deployed in every day products in a number of end markets, including automotive, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, electronics, medical and packaging.
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What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production
Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.
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How to Extrusion Blow Mold PHA/PLA Blends
You need to pay attention to the inherent characteristics of biopolymers PHA/PLA materials when setting process parameters to realize better and more consistent outcomes.
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How to Optimize Injection Molding of PHA and PHA/PLA Blends
Here are processing guidelines aimed at both getting the PHA resin into the process without degrading it, and reducing residence time at melt temperatures.
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Best Methods of Molding Undercuts
Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders.
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Solve Four Common Problems in PET Stretch-Blow Molding
Here’s a quick guide to fixing four nettlesome problems in processing PET bottles.
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Formulating LLDPE/LDPE Blends For Abuse–Resistant Blown Film
A new study shows how the type and amount of LDPE in blends with LLDPE affect the processing and strength/toughness properties of blown film. Data are shown for both LDPE-rich and LLDPE-rich blends.
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Latest End Markets News And Updates
Light-Blocking Additive for PET Dairy Packaging
Avient’s Lactra LX additive enables blocking of 100% visible light in monolayer PET.
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OCSiAl Opens First Large-Scale Graphene Nanotube Plant
The new facility in Serbia will serve Europe, North America and Asia to drive advances in plastics and rubbers.
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Compact Solution for Two-Component Molding
Zahoransky’s new internal mold handling technology foregoes the time, space and money required for core-back, rotary table or index plate technologies for 2K molding.
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INEOS Styrolution to Close ABS Production in Addyston, Ohio
Company will commence a safe and responsible decommissioning process in the second quarter of 2025.
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Indorama Collaborates in Launch of World’s First Bio-PET Bottles
Japan’s Suntory Group will introduce the new bottles for selected products in Japan
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ExxonMobil Develops High-Performance, 95% PE Recyclable Thermoformed Packaging
The packaging solution involved a collaboration with equipment suppliers Hosokawa Alpine and Multivac Group.
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Research Deems Bioplastics, Wood Pulp a Sustainable, Economic Alternative for Rigid Packaging
Farrel Pomini and FPInnovations produce biodegradable compound for molding, extrusion and thermoforming applications.
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Custom Molder Pivots When States Squelch Thriving Single-Use Bottle Business
Currier Plastics had a major stake in small hotel amenity bottles until state legislators banned them. Here’s how Currier adapted to that challenge.
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Medical Tubing: Use Simulation to Troubleshoot, Optimize Processing & Dies
Extrusion simulations can be useful in anticipating issues and running “what-if” scenarios to size extruders and design dies for extrusion projects. It should be used at early stages of any project to avoid trial and error and remaking tooling.
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What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production
Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.
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For Extrusion and Injection-Blow Molders, Numerous Upgrades in Machines and Services
Uniloy is revising its machinery lines across the board and strengthening after-sales services in tooling maintenance, spare parts and tech service.
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Multilayer Solutions to Challenges in Blow Molding with PCR
For extrusion blow molders, challenges of price and availability of postconsumer recycled resins can be addressed with a variety of multilayer technologies, which also offer solutions to issues with color, processability, mechanical properties and chemical migration in PCR materials.
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