Feb 7, 2006 | Article
The recycling of plastics is a difficult problem because of three main features: * A worldwide consumption of roughly 170 million tonnes for a turnover of about $600 billion, * A...
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Jan 10, 2006 | Article
Cost saving is a universal headache for all the manufacturers and, of course rubber ones are concerned, the more so as rubber goods are mass-produced and must vie with thermoplastics which are...
Dec 14, 2005 | Article
The development of polymer blends, composites and laminates is a very active area of science and technology; of great economic importance not only for the plastics industry but also for many other...
Nov 30, 2005 | Article
Polymers have a propensity to stick more or less into cavities of moulds. Some drawbacks are obvious, particularly the impossibility to automatically demould, which disturbs processing and increases...
Nov 22, 2005 | Article
Anybody has already seen too little (or too big) a polymer part disturbing a device made by assembling several parts of various materials. Sometimes, the dimension is fair but a more or less strong...
Nov 9, 2005 | Article
Natural fibres were the first fibres used for thermoset reinforcement and are always used in phenolic resins whose consumption is declining for environmental problems principally due to recycling...
Oct 25, 2005 | Article
On the one hand, metals such as lead are more or less banned by regulations and environmental trends and, on the other hand they are difficult and expensive to process. Consequently, a market is...
Oct 19, 2005 | Article
In most cases, designers search to lighten parts for the majority of plastic and rubber applications. However, in a few cases concerning special uses they search high densities to obtain special...
Oct 12, 2005 | Article
Matching, feasibility, formulation: all you need to know about colour- on a global scale. Clive Maier tries out a new internet-based system for giving you the right colour, at the right price, for...
Oct 3, 2005 | Article
Competing with chemical blowing agents, Physical Blowing Agents (PBAs) offer an interesting alternative with its advantages, notably concerning environment for some of them, but also its limitations...