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Clean, Green, and Safe
Plastics Engineering magazine
Toymakers seek ever‐higher purity levels and sustainability in the colors they specify.
Read this article by Pat Toensmeier.
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Intellectual Agreement Fundamentals - Week 3 |
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International Polyolefins Virtual Conference |
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SPE Additives and Colors Academy: Trends and Training |
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Volume resin prices keep rising
Plastics Technology
Going into 2021, prices of the five volume commodity resins seem set to continue their upward march, at least for now. Driving this trajectory were higher feedstock costs, supplies tightened by production outages, and healthy domestic and export demand for all of these resins but polystyrene.
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Processors end 2020 on a high note
Plastics Technology
The Gardner Business Index for Plastics Processing jumped more than three points in December to close at 54.9. Extending the Index’s expansionary path for a sixth consecutive month, December’s results saw new orders, employment and backlog activity all transition from contractionary to expansionary levels, with each crossing above the 50 mark.
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Mighty morphing 3D printing
University of Maryland via ScienceDaily
Engineers have created a new shape-changing or 'morphing' 3D printing nozzle, which offers researchers new means for 3D printing 'fiber-filled composites.'
Engineers at the University of Maryland have created a new shape-changing or "morphing" 3D printing nozzle that was featured as a Frontispiece in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Advanced Materials Technologies.
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Hybrid resin offers new dimension in flow reactor printing
Chemistry World
Germany-based scientists have prepared a resin combining isocyanate and acrylate moieties that works with stereolithography to 3D print flow reactors. These reactors are then capable of undergoing surface functionalisation to obtain specific surface properties that are useful for photo-oxygenation and photoredox catalysis reactions.
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Weekly resin report: Recapping a mad, mad, mad, mad year in the resin market
Plastics Today
The plastics market quietly closed the books on a truly crazy year, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update.
It all started with such promise: Coming off a very negative 2019, characterized by greatly expanded production capacity and associated oversupply that led to major price erosion, the 2020 market began with an uptick.
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Why polyolefins are a popular and sustainable plastic option
Metropolis Magazine
Sometimes names are confusing. Polyolefin is a term used to refer to a class of polymers that includes two of the three highest-volume plastics on the planet, polypropylene and polyethylene — the other is PVC — yet neither has the word olefin in its name. In fact, the chemical term olefin is not even used much anymore, having been superseded by the word alkene, the name for the repeating units of carbon – carbon double bonds in these plastics. Still, the name olefin has stuck as a generic term.
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Bath scientists collaborate with industry to improve plastic recycling
AAAS via EurekAlert!
Researchers from the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies at the University of Bath have joined forces with industrial collaborators in a project that will enable mixtures of plastics to be recycled together.
Part of the problem with recycling plastics is that they have to be separated into different types as each type has different properties, meaning they can't be recycled together.
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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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Recycled plastic fillers and aggregates
AZO Materials
Recycled materials are being utilized more frequently in manufacturing applications across the globe in a move toward more sustainable practices. Recycled plastics are a crucial part of this emerging market.
Thermoset plastics are one category of recycled plastics that do not melt and provide distinctive solutions as durable aggregates and fillers in a range of applications and products.
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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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A plastics industry wish list for the Biden administration
Plastics Today
Near the end of 2019, we asked folks associated with the plastics industry what was on their wish list for the coming year, and they responded in droves. So, I thought it would be a good idea to repeat the exercise at the end of 2020, but in a more focused manner. Rather than ask an open-ended question and harvest answers that invariably would lead with the hope for an end to the pandemic, I asked what was on their wish list for the incoming Biden administration. Bad idea! I got only a couple of responses, which are shared below. My guess is that a combination of politics fatigue and an understandable reluctance to express even the most benign opinion in our polarized moment turned people off.
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Lower temperature catalyst turns plastic waste into useful materials
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
A new catalyst can recycle common plastic found in everything from toys to supermarket bags into liquid fuels and wax, despite working at a lower temperature than other systems.
The developers of the new system, from Osaka City University and Tohoku University in Japan, hope it could help tackle the world’s growing plastic waste problem while providing useful materials for other uses.
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