Carbon black pigments have been standard for black parts. However, these pigments block the signal of NIR optical sorting ...

Startup company Plastic Back will launch a pilot recycling project at Freepoint Eco-Systems’ site in Hebron, Ohio. Plastic Back has developed a chemical recycling technology for PVC. The pilot will ...

The intensification ratio is equal to the ratio of the effective areas of the hydraulic ram to that of the screw check valve. Since those values often are not readily available, the intensification ...

A well-maintained fleet of injection molding machines can contribute to your company’s profitability. Scheduled maintenance activities extend the lifespan of the molding machines, safeguarding your ...

Wood-plastic composite (WPC) products were first widely marketed in the early 1990s as weather-resistant decking. The product concept has evolved rapidly into railing, fencing, trim, automotive parts, ...

Polyethylene has been around as a commercial material for a little over 70 years. It was one of the early developments in synthetic thermoplastics. Given its long history, it could be assumed that we ...

The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Depending on the product requirements, a wide array of ...

In a previous article, we briefly discussed the influence of time as the second important factor in the mechanical response of polymers. The flip side of time is strain rate. The rate of loading for a ...

Melt flow rate testing can be characterized as the Rodney Dangerfield of material test methods—it gets no respect. People from all parts of the industry downplay the value of the test or denigrate its ...

Pearlescence, haze, rocker bottoms, and top-load failure are common ills that can afflict PET bottles. Cures for all of these are readily available. An article in the December 2014 issue (Blow Molding ...

Combining KraussMaffei's FiberForm and ColorForm technologies, you can take complex metal parts requiring multi-step, labor-intensive processing and convert them into a single-cell composite solution, ...

In Part 1 of this series, we gave a brief overview of the historical developments related to polyethylene. The most important aspects of the advances made in the synthesis of PE involved the ...