End Markets for Plastics

Plastics are deployed in every day products in a number of end markets, including automotive, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, electronics, medical and packaging.

New Short Cellulose Fiber-Reinforced Acetal Grades

New Short Cellulose Fiber-Reinforced Acetal Grades

Polyplastics’ new Duracon POM grades offer performance benefits over glass-reinforced POM and lower environmental impact.

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Medical

What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production

Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.    

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Blow Molding

How to Extrusion Blow Mold PHA/PLA Blends

You need to pay attention to the inherent characteristics of biopolymers PHA/PLA materials when setting process parameters to realize better and more consistent outcomes.    

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Biopolymers

How to Optimize Injection Molding of PHA and PHA/PLA Blends

Here are processing guidelines aimed at both getting the PHA resin into the process without degrading it, and reducing residence time at melt temperatures.

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Best Methods of Molding Undercuts

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders.

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PET

Solve Four Common Problems in PET Stretch-Blow Molding

Here’s a quick guide to fixing four nettlesome problems in processing PET bottles.

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Commodity Resins

Formulating LLDPE/LDPE Blends For Abuse–Resistant Blown Film

A new study shows how the type and amount of LDPE in blends with LLDPE affect the processing and strength/toughness properties of blown film. Data are shown for both LDPE-rich and LLDPE-rich blends.

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Latest End Markets News And Updates

CJ Biomaterials Hires Leah Ford as Director of Marketing

Ford has background in biopolymer technology having worked for PLA bioplastics supplier NatureWorks.

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Packaging

US Plastics Pact Updates Postconsumer Recycled Content Toolkit

Toolkit is intended to help converters to reduce virgin plastic consumption by incorporating recycled content.

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Automotive

High-Productivity PBT and Nylon Compounds Launched

  BASF’s new HPP portfolio is the result of cost-optimized and energy-efficient production.  

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PET

All-Electric Stretch-Blower for up to 3L PET Bottles

PET Technologies debuts compact APF-Max 2L liner reheat machine with quick changeovers, NIR heating and blowing-air recovery.

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BASF Delivers Biomass-Balanced Ammonia to Evonik

BASF’s BMBcert ammonia grade will be used by Evonik for production of nylon 12 and epoxy curing agents.

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Braskem Selected to Negotiate Federal Funding Award to Expand UHMWPE

By driving innovation for Braskem’s ‘Utec’ UHMWPE, the project would strengthen the lithium-ion battery value chain in the U.S.

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Medical

Custom Molder Pivots When States Squelch Thriving Single-Use Bottle Business

Currier Plastics had a major stake in small hotel amenity bottles until state legislators banned them. Here’s how Currier adapted to that challenge.

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processing tips

Medical Tubing: Use Simulation to Troubleshoot, Optimize Processing & Dies

Extrusion simulations can be useful in anticipating issues and running “what-if” scenarios to size extruders and design dies for extrusion projects. It should be used at early stages of any project to avoid trial and error and remaking tooling.  

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3D Printed Spine Implants Made From PEEK Now in Production

Medical device manufacturer Curiteva is producing two families of spinal implants using a proprietary process for 3D printing porous polyether ether ketone (PEEK).

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industry 4.0

What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production

Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.    

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Packaging

For Extrusion and Injection-Blow Molders, Numerous Upgrades in Machines and Services

Uniloy is revising its machinery lines across the board and strengthening after-sales services in tooling maintenance, spare parts and tech service.

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Recycling

Multilayer Solutions to Challenges in Blow Molding with PCR

For extrusion blow molders, challenges of price and availability of postconsumer recycled resins can be addressed with a variety of multilayer technologies, which also offer solutions to issues with color, processability, mechanical properties and chemical migration in PCR materials.

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