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Plastics Engineering
Pushing the boundaries of presentation in the film packaging, brand owners are increasingly turning to matte-finish, soft touch exteriors or customized digitally printed messaging to get customers' attention. Realizing that customer tastes around the glob continue to evolve - particularly with the growth of middle-class purchasing power - converters and material providers are putting significant research and development effort into refining packaging performance and appearance to meet regional requirements.
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Plastics Engineering
The advent of 3D printing is changing how many things are fabricated. In fact, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using 3D printing to show that such technology may be applied in construction and architecture to make the sublime a reality. Using programmable robotics and additive technology, they built a 12-foot high structure, 50-feet in diameter, in a mere - get this - 14 hours of what MIT calls "printing time."
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Wired
One single-use plastic bag takes at least 450 years to degrade. Give Miranda Wang three hours and she can reduce ten of them into liquid. Wang is the first to discover a chemical process that tackles the end-of-life of plastic. “Our technology can turn these dirty films that have food or dirt or any kind of grime or any kind of contamination on it and we turn this material into a combination of four different kinds of chemicals, called organic acids,” says Wang.
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U.S. News & World Report
Michigan State University scientists are using sunlight and bacteria to produce biodegradable plastics. Laboratory researchers genetically tweaked bacteria that use sunlight to produce sugar. They caused the bacteria to leak the sugar and paired them with other bacteria that feed on it. The process generated material with a high content of bioplastic. Researchers already have developed biodegradable plastics with bacteria. But they've used sugar from corn and beets needed to feed animals and people. The Michigan State team avoids it, instead using sugar generated by bacteria themselves.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Phys.org
The polymers that make up synthetic materials need time to de-stress after processing, researchers said. A new study has found that entangled, long-chain polymers in solutions relax at two different rates, marking an advancement in fundamental polymer physics. The findings will provide a better understanding of the physical properties of polymeric materials and critical new insight to how individual polymer molecules respond to high-stress processing conditions.
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Inside HPC
In this TACC podcast, Gregg Beckham from NREL and Lee Woodcock from the University of South Florida describe how they are using the Stampede supercomputer to engineer an enzyme that breaks down plastic.
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IEEE Spectrum
While the manipulation of atoms has a long history, the story of moving molecules around is one with little success and a fair amount of hair pulling. That is, until now. A team of scientists in Germany has managed to prop up a molecule into a position that it would not naturally assume. In the process, they were able to make the molecule serve as a single-electron field emitter in which the emission of electrons is triggered by an electrostatic field.
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University of Akron via Science Daily
Polymer Science Professor Dr. Yu Zhu and his research team developed a solid polymer electrolyte that can be used in lithium ion batteries to replace the current liquid electrolyte to improve the safety and performance of lithium batteries. Zhu says solid electrolytes has not been commercialized in lithium batteries because of drawbacks like low ionic conductivity and high interfacial resistance with electrodes. However, Zhu and his team demonstrated that a dual-salt based polymer solid electrolyte exhibited superionic conductivity at room temperature and outstanding electrochemical stability with lithium battery electrode materials.
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Plastics Today
The people have spoken…or at least voted. PlasticsToday’s audience of plastics professionals have selected the best answers to complete the sentence “You know you’re a plastics engineer if…” that we posed throughout April.
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Plasmatreat North America
Plasma pretreatment is the key enabler technology for microfine cleaning, surface activation and plasma coating of nearly all kinds of materials – from plastics, metals and glass to cardboard, textiles and composites. More and more conventional industrial pretreatment methods are being replaced by plasma technology in order to make processes more effective and environmentally friendly.
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CNN
Something was cooking in Toby McCartney's Scottish home. The engineer and his two pals were boiling pot after pot of plastic on the stove. Plastic bottles, diapers, carrier bags -- it was all going in the melting pot. But McCartney wasn't going mad, he was concocting the perfect recipe for plastic roads.
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Whether you’re looking for reinforcement or insulation, transparency or IR absorption, opacity or durability, flame retardancy or anti-blocking, our unique range of mineral fillers and additives can help you realize both cost and performance benefits.
Sibelco offers a range of specialty materials including ATH, barite, nepheline syenite & micro-crystalline silica.
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3DPrint.com
3D printing is a wonderful technology on its own, but it’s also extremely effective when combined with other manufacturing methods, like injection molding. 3D printing molds for injection molding, rather than creating them in the traditional multi-step manner, saves time, allowing manufacturers to get their products to market more quickly.
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The Guardian
Currently, most bio-plastics derive from terrestrial sources related to the food industry, including corn, sugarcane and cassava. However, according to Bakti Berlyanto Sedayu, a researcher with the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, seaweed is a far more sustainable alternative.
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Honeywell - Solutions & Technologies
Honeywell invents and manufactures technologies to address some of the world’s toughest challenges initiated by revolutionary macrotrends in science, technology and society.
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Politico
Philippe Decelle really loves plastics. This is no idle love. The Belgian artist and collector has spent 30 years collecting thousands of plastic items for posterity, from furniture to fashion to art to common utensils. He understands plastics — their history, their chemistry, their aesthetics, their pop culture references.
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Packaging News
The new pack is described as biodegradable, recyclable and compostable. The solution comes after the launch of the UK Plastics Pact to address the impact plastic waste is having on the environment, with retailers and manufacturers more conscious of single use and non-recyclable plastics and wanting to cater for the green consumer.
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Progressive Machine Company’s S109 Single-Spool Traverse Winder is a simple, yet versatile winding solution that features a Speed & Tension Control dancer that allows for adjustable tension levels, here’s how.
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The Kistler ComoNeo: Even the most complex processes are easily controlled thanks to user-friendly guidance for operators with integrated assistants and control algorithms.
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Plastics Recycling Update
Two electronics manufacturers used a combined 60 million pounds of recycled plastic in their products last year. HP and Dell recently released sustainability reports touching on their use of recycled resins. Both companies use plastic recovered from electronics, post-consumer resin purchased on the market, and post-consumer plastic from seaside communities in Haiti.
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Plastics News
Potential U.S. tariffs on automobiles and auto components are drawing strong opposition from some quarters of the plastics supply chain.
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Business Standard
Despite plastic ban, prices of its key raw materials have surged by a staggering 13 percent over the last two months due to rising crude oil prices and robust consumption from export centric plastic manufacturers.
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