Automotive

Engineering Resins 21 Apr 2020

Injection Molding Gains an Edge in Motorcycle Gas Tanks

Complex shapes required for the latest motorcycle gas tanks favor injection over blow molding. Lanxess and BMW have a monolayer nylon solution.

Automotive 21 Apr 2020

320 L Hydrogen Tank Liner Blow Molded in Nylon

Large liners for hydrogen composite pressure vessels are a challenge to blow mold. Kautex found a material and a technique to achieve a world “first.”

Construction 21 Apr 2020

Ineos and Plastic Energy Collaborate on Advanced Plastic Recycling Facility

The planned Ineos and Plastic Energy facility will use the latter’s patented TAC technology to break down plastic waste and turn it into ‘premium’ polyollefin-based plastics.

Engineering Resins 10 Apr 2020

'First' All-Plastic Brake Pedal for Battery-Electric Sports Car

Lanxess Tepex nylon 6 composite insert and a glass-fiber reinforced nylon 66 compound for back injection/overmolding key to this innovation.

Consumer Products 8 Apr 2020

Fully-Operational Asaclean-Sun Plastech Provides Free Online & Phone Technical Support

Responding to coronavirus market challenges, Asaclean offers essential businesses and other plastics processors free technical & product support.

resin pricing 3 Apr 2020

Prices of Volume Resins Flat to Down

Key drivers for the trajectory of resin prices include supply outpacing demand, lower feedstock costs, and uncertainty about coronavirus effects.

close up on technology 30 Mar 2020

New Product ID Technologies For Industry, Retail & Recycling

Confirming material composition and manufacturing source, anti-counterfeiting, waste sorting, and retail check-out scanning may all get a boost from new ID technologies.

plant tour 27 Mar 2020

Molder Gets Into World-Class Shape

Shape Corp.’s Grand Haven, Mich., facility challenges itself and its employees to run leaner, pushing productivity and efficiency to new limits.

sustainability 25 Mar 2020

Industrial-Scale Renewable PP Underway at Borealis' Belgium Plants

While new developments in biobased plastics continue, might the effort to combat Covid-19 lead to some delays and a temporary suspension of bans of single-use ‘virgin’ plastic items?