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Hydrophobic Coatings and Pigments: From Water Beading to Durable Protection
Hydrophobic coatings if formulated correctly can provide a plethora of advantages which may include self-cleaning, … Continued
EPA considers rule changes encouraging advanced recycling
Written July 2026 The U.S. EPA is considering changing how plastics recycling plants that use … Continued
Formulating Cleaners with Antibacterial Coatings: Benefits, Challenges, and Commercial Opportunities
As hygiene expectations continue to rise across household, institutional, healthcare, and food processing markets, formulators … Continued
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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
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
