August 1999 Issue
August 1999
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
PP Engineering Alloys Branch Out Into Molding, Extrusion, Thermoforming
The Hivalloy line of in-reactor grafted alloys of polypropylene and amorphous resins from Montell Polyolefins, Wilmington, Del., is expanding its market reach with new grades, new developmental alloy families, and dramatic new applications. Besides injection molding, developing applications now include thermoformed sheet and even barrier packaging films.
Read More100% Vision Inspection Comes to HDPE Bottles
Kerr Plastics, Lancaster, Pa., a producer of injection blow molded HDPE pharmaceutical bottles, never used to inspect every bottle it produced.
Read MorePET Recycling Line Crystallizes While Chopping
A new method of recycling PET into pellets or directly into extruded sheet is said to save time and energy by combining crystallizing and drying with size reduction in one piece of equipment.
Read MoreMold Design Goes Solid
Injection mold design is in the midst of a second computer revolution.
Read MoreWhat Would You Do With Some Extra Cash?
If you suddenly discovered an extra bundle of funds in your purchasing budget, what would you do with it? What would be the first use you would make of an extra $10,000? What about $100,000? Or $1,000,000?
Read MoreNew Materials Rise to the DVD Challenge
DVDs are casting a new light on optical discs--quite literally, since new generations of high-density disc players are expected to use blue-green lasers with shorter wavelengths in order to read the smaller pits of new higher-density data discs.
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