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ANTEC® 2023 Call for Speakers Deadline this Friday!
SPE
SPE is looking for speakers for ANTEC® 2023, taking place March 27-30 at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, CO. The deadline for submissions is coming up fast - this Friday, December 2! ANTEC® is the perfect event to share your research or your company’s latest developments. We're asking for presentations focused on the latest findings in plastics technologies, polymer research, new materials, processes and more. Submit today!
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Resin price report: Producers' efforts to tighten supply are having intended effect
Plastics Today
Spot resin trading improved last week. A relatively high volume of resin was sold through the PlasticsExchange platform, said the Chicago-based resin clearinghouse in its Market Update, and more railcars than truckloads changed hands. Along with regular customers, some processors that had been on the sidelines came in to secure material ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday week. Producers have continued efforts to tighten supplies by running reactors at reduced operating rates while purging surplus inventory into the export market, and the effect is being felt.
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Smart plastic could lead to more flexible electronics and robotics
InceptiveMind
An organized combination of stiff and elastic domains within a single material can synergistically tailor bulk mechanical properties. Now, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have produced a new plastic-like material, much like many life forms that are hard and rigid in some places and soft and stretchy in others.
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Wacker Chemical Corporation
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Extreme Coatings
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Advanced recycling: beyond pyrolysis
Plastics Technology
Consumer-product brand owners increasingly see advanced chemical recycling as a necessary complement to mechanical recycling if they are to meet ambitious goals for a circular economy in the next decade. Dozens of technology providers are developing new technologies to overcome the limitations of existing pyrolysis methods and to commercialize various alternative approaches to chemical recycling of plastics.
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Material can shape-shift with stability across forms
Plastics Today
A researcher in Switzerland has developed a material that can change and switch between different shapes with stability, something that has been a goal of scientists for some time but until now has been difficult to achieve.
The material — which is lightweight, easy to produce, and flexible and can be reshaped as required — is the result of work by Giada Risso, who completed the research as a PhD student in the Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures Group of Paolo Ermanni at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
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The facts and advantages of laser marking plastics
Medical Plastics News
Laser marking is the process in which a laser beam is absorbed by a plastic object, which results in permanent marking. The marking is either dark or light depending on the applied polymer and laser additive.
Mainly IR lasers are used for marking. However, polymers do not absorb laser beams in this wavelength, which makes high contrast marking impossible. Therefore, laser additives are essential.
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Shedding heat on thermal plastics for lighting
MachineDesign
According to recent market studies, thermally conductive plastics will significantly influence lighting applications during the coming years. In a recent study published on UL Prospector, the global market for TCPs in automotive LED applications is forecasted to reach $255.6 million by 2025. Another market where the stakes are high is street lighting. Within 10 years in Europe, 40% of city energy costs are forecasted to be consumed by streetlights.
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Promoted by Polyfil
 Polyfil, a Kafrit Group company, together with Kafrit IL and N3Cure (an Israeli based Start Up) provides solutions for UV curing systems and CROSSITOL® masterbatches. Crosslinking enables the production of recyclable packaging with a single-polymer structure (Mono-material), saving costs and reducing the consumption of fossil-based polymers. As a result, it will have a smaller effect on the environment than most plastic solutions.
CROSSITOL® masterbatches can be used in a wide range of applications including cast and blown film extrusion. Its technology is coupled with N3Cure’s curing system to target specific layers for crosslinking, downgauging, and production costs.
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What industry can learn from nature about product design
Plastics Today
Markus J. Buehler writes: "Sitting in my office at MIT, it’s easy to forget that natural materials even exist.
So much of our built environment and consumer products are made from synthetics that rely on complex supply chains, use large amounts of energy to produce, and are difficult to recycle. But when you consider the properties of natural objects like bones, seashells, and spider silk, there’s a great deal for materials designers to envy."
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