Automotive
Time for Another Look at Fiber-Direct Compounding for Molding
Despite its benefits in cost, performance and lightweighting, fiber-direct compounding (FDC) has seen relatively limited adoption—is that changing?
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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