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Run Lots of Colors? Time to Consider a Commercial Purging Compound
Processors who use commercial purging compounds will see a reduction in scrap levels, machine downtime and overall cost.
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Injection Molder Changes Up Color Changes
An injection molder of trash cans, pallets, totes and other plus-size components, Rehrig Pacific’s machine fleet is composed of larger tonnage presses whose size makes material changes at the feed throat a potentially dizzying exercise.
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Plastics Processors Who Hire ‘Second-Chance’ Workers Do Well by Doing Good
Two blow molders with long-standing programs of hiring formerly incarcerated low-level offenders have helped these individuals re-enter their communities and have benefited from an additional resource during chronic labor shortages.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials, Part 28: Making LCP's Melt Processable
Liquid-crystal polymers based on a single monomer produces a polymer with a very high melting point.This presents two problems. Here’s how they were solved.
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National Survey Reveals Surprising Opinions About Recycling Plastic
Consumer expectations of product labeling and recycling outcomes are anything but straightforward.
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Most-Viewed Plastics Technology Stories in April 2023
Changes at iMFLUX, back pressure optimization, recycling PP, fungi, X-rays, biopolymers, simulation and more won reader interest in April.
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Injection Molder Bases Company Culture on Employee Empowerment
After more than two decades in the industry, Rodney Davenport was given the opportunity to create an injection molding operation in his own vision, and — in keeping with the product he was making — to do so from the ground up.
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Are You Providing Sustainable Materials?
Biopolymers? Bio-additives? Materials containing high levels of PCR? Materials regenerated via advanced recycling? Let the world of extrusion tap into your Know How by speaking at the Extrusion 2023 conference.
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CMA Experts Discuss Polyolefins Outlook for Next Five Years
A significant challenge facing the North American polyolefins industry may be maintaining economically feasible production rates while simultaneously ensuring a steady product flow to both domestic and global markets
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Latest Reshoring Numbers Could Bode Well for Processors
Jobs resulting from reshoring and foreign direct investment set record highs in 2022 after doing the same in 2021.
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Robotized system makes overmolding mobile, flexible
Anybrid’s ROBIN demonstrates inline/offline functionalization of profiles, 3D-printed panels and bio-based materials for more efficient, sustainable composite parts.
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Why Are They Blending Biopolymers?
A sit-down with bioplastic producer Danimer Scientific showed me there are more possible answers to that question than I had previously thought.
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