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Need to Know About Flame Retardants?
SPE
Taking place virtually the week of August 22-26, 2022, SPE's National Week of Flame Retardants will take a deep dive into emerging technologies in flame retardants that extend across multiple disciplines. While not focused on a specific industry, building and construction, electronics, automotive, and aerospace are major end-users in the global flame retardants market. If you are in any of these industries or in an industry where fire safety in polymers is imperative, this event provides applicable knowledge and solutions to meet your challenges and needs. Event is hosted by the Non-Halogen Flame Retardant Materials Technical Interest Group and Pinfa North America.
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Resin price report: Ample supply meets listless demand with predictable results
Plastics Today
The slide continues in the spot resin market, as prices for both polyethylene and polypropylene declined as July drew to a close. Overall lackluster demand is a result of ample supply and buyers’ calculations that prices have yet to find a floor, according to the PlasticsExchange. Despite the drop in resin pricing and slowdown in activity, domestic railcar offers keep coming for both prime and off-grade materials, and the heavy flow of offers only bolstered buyers’ expectations of further declines.
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McKinsey: By one key measure, plastics beat alternatives
Plastics Recycling Update
The severe impact of plastic ocean pollution has long been recognized, but research firm McKinsey wants to inject some of plastic’s climate benefits into the collective materials usage discussion.
The company last month issued a paper that explored the climate impacts of various plastic products, comparing durable and non-durable products made of plastic to alternative materials, including paper, metals and glass.
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How does compatibilizer affect biofuel co-product/plastic composites?
AZO Materials
New research has appeared in the journal Composites Part C: Open Access investigating the benefits of using pyrolysis and compatibilizers to produce sustainable biocomposites from biodegradable plastics and biofuel co-products.
Plastics are products which have helped define modern industrialized society.
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PET-like bioplastic from biomass
Plastics Technology
We have been reporting on bioplastics derived from a variety of natural sources as contenders particularly for the five major commodity thermoplastics — PE, PP, PS, PVC and PET. One of the latest is a new biomass-derived plastic similar to PET, that meets the criteria for replacing several current plastics while also being more environmentally friendly has been developed by scientists from public Swiss research university The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, which specializes in natural sciences and engineering.
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Automotive plastics market growth fueled by CO2 emission reduction requirements
Plastics Today
Every kilogram stripped from a car’s weight reduces its CO2 emissions by approximately 20 kg during its operating life cycle. As OEMs strive to meet sustainability targets, lightweighting will play a key role, and that will drive growth in the automotive plastics sector, according to recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan. This market is likely to reach $45.07 billion by 2028 from $31.29 billion in 2021, an uptick of 5.3% CAGR, writes the business consultancy in “Global Automotive Plastics Growth Opportunities.”
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Following a nanomaterial's journey from wheat to plastics
AZO Nano
Rigorous chemical treatments of pure bleached pulp are the most common approaches used to obtain cellulose nanofibrils. These processes incur significant expenses and are a detriment to the environment.
A paper published in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers reports the synthesis of lignocellulosic nanofibrils using wheat straw feedstock. The LCNF shows great promise in bioplastic applications.
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Researchers develop sprayless 3D computer-aided verification tool for plastic
AZO Optics
A recent study in Polymers suggests a novel, environmentally friendly three-dimensional technology for optical inspection. It allows precise 3D optical inspection without spraying an anti-glare mixture on a component's surface.
Plastic parts are important in energy conservation and energy savings. Compared with metal, plastic products have some benefits, including lower production costs, waste, part weight and higher corrosion resistance.
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Talent talk: A 'curiouser and curiouser' recession
Plastics Today
Less than a month ago, Talent Talk predicted that the U.S. would soon enter what we called a “definitional recession,” i.e., two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Since then, I have learned that this is not the official definition of a recession, which made me wonder what is going on?
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