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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
By Protomold – Nobody’s Faster In The Short Run.® There are lots of reasons to add text to a part. It could be an assembly instruction, a part number, a legally-advisable warning, or simply a logo (see fig. 1). Whatever … Continued
By Randy Hough With the ever-increasing demand for plastic bottles, plastic blow molding and the environment has become an increasingly important issue. As landfills begin disappearing, more and more pressure will be put on plastic blow molders to come up … Continued
By Associated Polymer Labs, Inc. Stress sweeps, also referred to as amplitude sweeps, are used as an efficient way to characterize plastic material stability. The wider the linear viscoelastic range the more stable the material. The wax material had a … Continued
By SABIC Innovative Plastics™ A quick and easy to use tool, the Flow Calculator performs a flow analysis of the selected material in a given geometry. This has been one of the more highly used engineering tools for its ease … Continued
By John Bozzelli In all hydraulic injection units, hydraulic power is converted, multiplied, into plastic pressure. The law of physics involved is F = P x A. That is force (F) is equal to pressure (P) times area (A). The … Continued
