November 2004 Issue
November 2004
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
Specialty Thermoplastic Compounds Push the Envelope in All Directions
At least eight new developments are pushing specialty thermoplastic compounds into higher levels of performance and opening up new areas of potential applications.
Read MoreChasing Nanocomposites
Nano-sized particles have mega-potential in plastics because just a pinch does so much more than heavy loadings of other additives. Three recent conferences presented almost 200 papers on the feverish pace of ‘nano’ R&D on boosting plastics’ mechanical and barrier properties, flame retardancy, and electrical conductivity.
Read MoreRecruiting the Next Generation for Plastics
What better way to turn children onto the world of plastics than to make it into a video game?
Read MoreDedusting Turns Risky Regrind Into a Valuable Resource
Custom injection molder Tessy Plastics, Elbridge, N.Y., used to spend around $117,000 every year on resins that it would not use.
Read MoreLaser Scanning Pinpoints Shrinkage Problems in Record Time
A faster way to measure part surface dimensions helped injection molder Hy-Ten Plastics to quickly identify and correct geometries in its tooling that spawned problem parts.
Read MoreSimulation Spots Trouble Before It Starts
Blow molding has been one of the slowest processing sectors to adopt simulation software as a design and troubleshooting tool.
Read MoreThermoforming Innovations Displayed At SPE Annual Conference
A twin-sheet thermoformed pallet uses PP foam as a plug assist that becomes the lightweight structural core.
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