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By Don Rosato
 Value and health are currently driving barrier technology in food packaging. Increasingly busy lifestyles are reflected in growing consumer demands for convenience foods, ready meals and eating "on the go," resulting in high growth in food packaging. With the increasingly global customer base of food retailing, food packaging requires longer shelf life and monitoring of food safety/quality based on international standards.
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SPE Plastics Research Online
Wood has been used as an important engineering material for a long time because of its excellent properties (e.g., high strength-to-weight ratio, renewable and environmentally benign nature, aesthetically pleasing character, and low processing cost). Wood, however, is susceptible to swelling and shrinkage under certain conditions (e.g., changing relative humidity). It is also vulnerable to damage from micro-organisms and insects, which causes dimensional instability and reduces long-term durability. Such damage may even render the material entirely ineffective.
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R&D Magazine
Your car's bumper is probably made of a moldable thermoplastic polymer called ABS, shorthand for its acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene components. Light, strong and tough, it is also the stuff of ventilation pipes, protective headgear, kitchen appliances, Lego bricks and many other consumer products. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants. In doing so, they have invented a solvent-free production process that interconnects equal parts of nanoscale lignin dispersed in a synthetic rubber matrix to produce a meltable, moldable, ductile material that's at least ten times tougher than ABS.
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Plastics Engineering
Companies are on the march toward goals such as reducing carbon footprint and waste, and bio-based, renewably sourced materials – including modifiers, reinforcements, and fillers used in either conventional or bio-based polymer formulations – can help companies achieve these targets. Replacing conventional additives and property modifiers with bio-based additives imparts a “green” image for companies that are increasingly interested in promoting their use of bio-based materials.
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Composites are gaining ground in the auto industry due to their weight-saving potential and tighter CO2 emissions regulations. Growing socio-environmental considerations are also generating demand for lightweight composite materials with sustainability credentials. A category of material which has received renewed interest, especially from car manufacturers, is natural fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) to substitute for traditional glass fiber materials for non-structural injection molding applications.
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Pilot Magazine
Jeremy Rowsell, a British born pilot, adventurer and environmentalist, is set to fly across America in August of this year in an aeroplane that is fueled by recycled plastic. The On Wings of Waste flight is an ambitious, daring and historic initiative to highlight its potential benefits as a new source of fuel. Rowsell was inspired for this flight after his time spent flying single-engined aircraft in the Pacific as a ferry pilot.
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Plastics Today
A German car manufacturer was looking for a solution to locally reinforce a battery box molded from a DLFT (direct long glass fiber thermoplastic) polypropylene (PP) compression molding compound. Crash test requirements stipulated that a 29-kilogram battery was not allowed to break through the wall of the console at an impact speed of 50.4 km/h, translating to withstanding a force of around 45 times that of gravity. This requirement was beyond the performance of the DLFT compound itself.
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Plastics News
Pet owners are driving demand for dog waste bags manufactured from bioplastics. Australian company Secos Group Ltd. says the trend has boosted sales, particularly to major U.S. and European retailers. The bags, manufactured at Secos’s Nanjing, China, plant, are made from either a compostable bioplastic or Cardia’s patented Biohybrid product, a mix of renewable thermoplastics, mainly corn starch, and traditional resins, which can include polyethylene and polypropylene.
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An innovative method to 3-D print brain structures has been developed by a group of U.S. and Australian researchers. This capability will allow them to develop nerve cells to imitate a real brain. The research reported in the Biomaterials journal has been chosen for the Elsevier Atlas award by an independent, international Advisory Board. The brain is a highly complex organ, representing 2 percent of human body weight and consisting of roughly 100 billion nerve cells. Animal models have been used by scientists to study the brain, however in recent years, organizations such as the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) have supported a number of research works looking for other options.
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