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ANTEC® 2021 Offers Enhanced Sponsor/Exhibitor Options & Networking Experiences
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Through SPE’s new event platform’s matchmaking functionality, ANTEC® sponsors, exhibitors and attendees will be able to customize their own matchmaking ‘rules’ so industry professionals can connect based on their own preferences. Exhibitors & sponsors will have new important opportunities to showcase their products and services and create qualified, face-to-face meetings albeit in a virtual setting.
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.SPE CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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| Feb. 5 |
Intellectual Agreement Fundamentals - Week 1 |
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| Feb. 12 |
Intellectual Agreement Fundamentals - Week 2 |
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| Feb. 17 |
WEBINAR: Formulating Thermoplastics with Non-Halogen Flame Retardants: An Introduction |
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| Feb. 19 |
Intellectual Agreement Fundamentals - Week 3 |
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| Feb. 23 |
International Polyolefins Virtual Conference |
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| Feb. 26 |
Intellectual Agreement Fundamentals - Week 4 |
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| March 3-5 |
12th European Thermoforming Conference |
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| March 11 |
SPE Additives and Colors Academy: Trends and Training |
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| March 21-April 9 |
ANTEC® 2021 |
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Promoted By
RJG, Inc.
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Promoted By
C.W. Brabender Instruments, Inc.
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It's past time to standardize color tolerances for plastics
Plastics Today
There is increasing crossover between plastics and textiles, particularly in the apparel and footwear sectors where these two materials intersect in new and ever-ubiquitous ways. Despite this widespread integration, the plastics industry lags alarmingly behind textiles when it comes to one important factor — color tolerancing.
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Plastics and the great vaccine rollout
Plastics News
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. was at the center of the news cycle when it began shipments of its COVID-19 vaccine from its plant near Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Dec. 13.
It obviously marked a great breakthrough for the company and the world as a whole, but let's take a moment to thank plastics companies that are also key to getting the vaccine safely from Pfizer's manufacturing lines to patients.
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Pipette tips demonstrate high bacterial filtration efficiency
Medical Plastics News
A new independent study demonstrates Porvair Sciences proprietary pipette filter tips have greater than 99% Bacterial Filtration Efficiency even at an increased challenge level.
The independent test procedure employed was modified from a standard BFE procedure, based upon ASTM F2101, in order to employ a more severe challenge than would be experienced in normal use.
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NPE2021 canceled as in-person event
Plastics News
The NPE2021 show, the biggest plastics fair in North America, is canceling the in-person portion of the trade fair scheduled for May in Florida because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organizer announced Jan. 5.
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The real Green New Deal is plastic
Plastics Today
Environmentalists are extremely worried about the global water supply. They vigorously combat pollution in the world’s waterways, particularly plastic pollution, but the oceans are also filled with metal waste, including cargo containers and entire ships. Deforestation also is a major concern of environmentalists, who have long fought to save forests that also serve as carbon containment. Yet, more than 550 activist organizations are pushing to rid the world of plastic, the most eco-friendly material in use today when compared with textiles, steel and aluminum, wood and paper.
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Bergen International’s proven line of Auto Lightweighting CFAs for Injection Molding, Sheet/Profile Extrusion for:
PP, PE, PS, PC, ABS, TPO, TPE, etc.
Weight reduction
Sink removal
Shorten cycle times
Easily added via small feeder
Costs savings for OEMs
Assistance with onsite approval
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4 new developments in plastics drying
Plastics Technology
There is so much buzz in the plastics industry about Industry 4.0 and IIoT, but there is also a lot going on to enable the drying process itself — as well as the plastics processes it serves — to become more efficient and produce higher quality output.
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Weekly resin report: Spot polypropylene prices soar
Plastics Today
Spot resin trading got off to a roaring start in December, a reversal from a mostly lethargic November, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update. Buying surged even before the calendar turned, with heavy volumes changing hands on the last day of November, resulting in the resin clearinghouse’s best day of the month.
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Plastics processors waking up to the digital world
Plastics Technology
Think back to last January. The economy was booming, machines were running day and night, 401k’s were soaring, and our biggest concern was finding additional labor. Fewer than 12 months later there are a whole new set of priorities and concerns. We discovered how vulnerable life and business can be, learned to adapt and improvise and opportunistically embraced new approaches for getting things done.
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Promoted by Chroma Color Corporation
 With an increasing demand in the medical plastics market globally, manufacturers are pioneering high-quality resins that raise the standards of excellence in health care. Advancements in plastics are curbing medical costs and enhancing patient safety.
Medical-grade plastics are designed to meet stringent regulatory requirements and may also be chemical-, corrosion- and temperature-resistant. Unlike the glass, ceramic and metal products of yesteryear, plastics create low-cost, lightweight and durable equipment and devices that are easier to use and more comfortable for patients.
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3D-printing hollow structures with 'xolography'
IEEE Spectrum
By shining light beams in liquid resin, a new 3-D printing technique dubbed "xolography" can generate complex hollow structures, including simple machines with moving parts, a new study finds.
"I like to imagine that it's like the replicator from Star Trek," says study co-author Martin Regehly, an experimental physicist at the Brandenburg University of Applied Science in Germany.
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With Kautex packaging die heads 100% color change can be
achieved while saving up to 75% in time and materials.
RapidXchange technology allows to reduce the purging process by up to 75% through rheologically optimized flow channels.
The groundbreaking results were achieved in comparison with uncoated heads in mono-layer applications.
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Upcycling: Turning plastic bags into adhesives
Berkeley News
While many cities and eight states have banned single-use plastics, bags and other polyethylene packaging still clog landfills and pollute rivers and oceans.
One major problem with recycling polyethylene, which makes up one-third of all plastic production worldwide, is economic: Recycled bags end up in low-value products, such as decks and construction material, providing little incentive to reuse the waste.
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'Anomaly' year brings recycled PET market twists
Plastics Recycling Update
A confluence of RPET market disruptions in 2020 included low prime plastic pricing and supply challenges that led end users to seek feedstock from other sources. Still, experts maintain a surge of RPET demand is fast approaching.
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