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Coatings: The skin of plastic matter
By Adolfo Benedito
 In a risky analogy, we might say that coatings in plastics play the role of human skin. The first bastion defending the material, coatings are an added value that aim to both protect from the outside and to provide the material with unique and exclusive functionalities. Plastics and their coatings belong, therefore, to a complex and unique system with significantly enhanced properties compared to the original material.
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Radar absorbing composites reinforced with barium hexaferrite powder
SPE Plastics Research Online
 Radar is an object-detection system that uses electromagnetic waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, and speed of objects. A strategy for disguising objects from radar detection involves applying a coating of radar absorbing material. The earliest forms of radar absorbing materials, called "Sumpf" and "Schornsteinfeger," were developed during World War II for periscopes on German submarines. The materials had a layered structure based on graphite particles and other semiconductive materials embedded in a rubber matrix.
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Dow announced that it will adjust its Propylene Oxide operating rate in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, due to current economic conditions. This measure will result in the Company running PO production at reduced throughput and concentrating the use and supply of PO on specific markets.
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CPIA, SPI and ACC welcome PAC as first supporter member of operation clean sweep
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The board of directors of the Packaging Association and the leaders of their PAC NEXT initiative announced the signing of an Memorandum of Understanding to begin promoting Operation Clean Sweep to resin pellet handling operations within their membership. Originated by the Society of Plastics Inc. (SPI) more than 25 years ago, OCS is now a joint program of SPI and the American Chemistry Council and is licensed to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association to administer and promote in Canada.
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Coatings: The skin of plastic matter
By Adolfo Benedito
In a risky analogy, we might say that coatings in plastics play the role of human skin. The first bastion defending the material, coatings are an added value that aim to both protect from the outside and to provide the material with unique and exclusive functionalities.
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PP foam part honored with SPE award
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Plastic automotive components that received prizes at the 2013 SPE European Automotive Division Award ceremony for the Body Interior category included an innovative center console to which BASF had made a key contribution with its materials expertise in Neopolen polypropylene...
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European plastics 'set to change'
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The odds for plastics recycling in Europe are slowly but surely improving, with an average of 26 percent of plastic waste recycled across the continent. "Also, we know there is already a plan to implement a landfill ban in Poland. So, even in countries like that, things are set to change," said Martin Engelman, Plastics Europe's resource efficiency director at this year's edition of Identiplast.
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Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have made a nanomedicine breakthrough in which they converted common plastic materials like polyethylene terephthalate into non-toxic and biocompatible materials designed to specifically target and attack fungal infections. This research was published recently in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Communications.
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Yiannis Levendis, Distinguished Professor Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern, keeps a photograph of a burning plastic foam cup tacked to the wall above his desk. Thick black smoke emanates from the receptacle, which, subsequent pictures reveal, was reduced to a sooty powder by the end of the combustion process. The photo represents a mission for Levendis, whose expertise in combustion and device design has led to the development of dozens of clean energy products.
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Macro Plastics unveils hybrid plastic-wood bin
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Macro Plastics used the Northwest Horticultural Expo to introduce the Hybrid 44 bin that combines the best attributes of wood and plastic. "This is the biggest change in bins in 20 years," said Bruce Hale, international sales manager. He said he first came up with the concept more than a year and a half ago as a way to allow the Fairfield, Calif.-based company to better compete on price with wooden bins.
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Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has launched the Industrial Additive Manufacturing Programme to develop a number of critical technologies in order to grow an internationally competitive additive manufacturing industry in support of the manufacturing sector in the country. Particular focuses include aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, marine and precision engineering industries.
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WTO deal to ease plastic imports
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The World Trade Organization has struck a global deal that should ease import and customs procedures that can hold up the delivery of plastics, raw materials and plastic products to export customers. The agreement on trade facilitation was agreed by a WTO ministerial conference in Bali, Indonesia.
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