August 2010 Issue
August 2010
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
Extrusion: Take Care of Your Rolls So They Can Play Their Role
In the sheet extrusion business, one of your most important manufacturing assets is your cooling rolls.
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Bemis Molds Chair Out of 111 Recycled Coke Bottles - Styron Makes Its Official Debut - At Spartech, a Decade of PLA Sheet Pushes the Boundaries.
Read MoreMaterials Additives & Blends Take PLA Upscale
The second conference on biopolymers hosted by NatureWorks testified to the burgeoning interest in this new field of plastics.
Read MoreProgressive Injection Molder Pioneers in Thermoforming IML
When you’re a successful injection molder with more than 40 years under your belt and more than 50 presses producing 1.8 billion containers and lids for food-packaging containers annually, what do you do when you feel the time is right to expand?
Read MoreTooling: The Science of Profile Die Balancing
In our last column, we discussed the five things profile extruders need to know about profile die design—proper land length, land-length ratio, drawdown, considerations for sensitive materials, and decompression.
Read More10 Ways to Improve Twin-Screw Compounding Performance
There are many techniques known to operators and plant engineers for increasing the performance of a twin-screw compounding extruder.
Read MoreDryers Use Less Energy to Dry PET
Novatec Inc., Baltimore (novatec.com), is introducing two patented dryer control technologies intended to cut energy costs for processors of PET.
Read MoreInjection Molding: The Basics of Machine Evaluation, Part III
In the last two issues, we started defining some basic tests to ensure your injection molding machine is working properly.
Read MoreInjection Molding PHA Bioplastics: Validating Moldability for Paper Mate Pens
As part of the commercialization process for Mirel PHA bioplastics, it became necessary to validate the injection molding process for a high-profile consumer products launch.
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