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The Rise of Biodegradable Plastics: What It Means for Injection Molders
Sustainable materials are reshaping the plastics industry, and biodegradable polymers are becoming more widely used … Continued
High Pigment Volume Concentrates, More Color in Every Drop
Pigment concentrates play a valuable role in coatings formulations for all applications. From Point-of-Sale colorants … Continued
Multifunctional Additives Under Regulatory Pressure
Lubricant and metalworking fluid formulators are entering a period in which additive choice is no … Continued
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS ARCHIVE
Paid content by Slide Products, Inc. Molding PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) presents a processor with a host of important issues. Heating results in the outgassing of hydrochloric and hydrobromic acids. These acids cause varying levels of discomfort for operators and … Continued
Paid content by Slide Products, Inc. Slashing The Three-Shift Purge Process to Just Minutes A maker of twist-off bottle caps spent 24 hours purging to accomplish a color change. Requiring multiple purges with a witch’s brew of several different types … Continued
By Brad Cleveland, Protomold A lot of information is required to create a prototype. At the same time, however, a prototype embodies information — so much, in fact, that there is no other way the equivalent information could be stored … Continued
By Protomold – Nobody’s Faster In The Short Run.® With Protomold’s expanded capability to produce larger plastic parts, there are a few important considerations to keep in mind when designing parts to fit the Protomold process. For starters, our current … Continued
By Associated Polymer Labs, Inc. Every polyolefin has a unique and definitive “fingerprint” of it’s melt flow. Many different polyolefinic foams and effectively nonfoamable polyolefinic resins are successfully studied by ASTM D-4440, “Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties … Continued
