Mar 15, 2010 | Article
The medical sector is the fourth largest consumer of plastics after packaging, construction, and automotive sectors. It has a relatively high growth rate (8% per year). The growth is in part due to...
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Feb 22, 2010 | Article
The Electrical/Electronics (E/E) end-use market is the world's 3rd largest plastics sector behind packaging and building/construction. Apart from mechanical properties, the electrical behavior of...
Feb 8, 2010 | Article
To perform satisfactorily, both rigid and flexible PVC call for an efficient additive package that includes heat stabilizers. Heat stabilizers, which are essential components of a PVC formulation...
Jan 25, 2010 | Article
Essentially all plastic materials undergo oxidation reactions which can occur at every stage of the life cycle of a polymer from manufacturing and storage of the material through its...
Jan 11, 2010 | Article
Three properties of polymers are directly related to their refractive index: focusing power, light reflection and dispersive effect due to the diversity of the wavelengths of the light. The higher...
Dec 1, 2009 | Article
As we have heard of a growing use of biocides these past months, we thought it would be worth building an update on the SpecialChem Community using Biocides. Bactericides remain the most used...
Nov 16, 2009 | Article
It is more and more urgent to treat end-of-life plastics wastes exceeding hundred thousand tonnes a day. That is an economic and environmental requirement that must be solved to perpetuate the life...
Nov 2, 2009 | Article
Packaging is one of the major markets of the SpecialChem community, and several online documents dealing with packaging topics have been released these past months. We therefore have statistically...
Direct property losses by fires are roughly 0.2% of the gross domestic product and the total costs of fires are around 1% of the gross domestic product. Therefore, it is important to develop...
Oct 1, 2009 | Article
If we look at all the articles published since the beginning of the year, and select the one counting the higher amount of members’ comments we find one of the latest article published...