Apr 5, 2006 | Article
To solve economical, technical and environmental constraints encountered every day, designers at the cutting edge of technology replace more and more often conventional materials with plastics...
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Mar 20, 2006 | Article
The mechanical recycling, useful for sorted plastics, is unsuitable for the considerable stream of mixed plastics included in municipal solid wastes and shredders coming from end-of-life vehicles or...
Mar 8, 2006 | Article
The mechanical recycling, the most used way for plastic recycling is routinely applied by almost all the plastic manufacturers for processing scraps but is also used by specific processors for...
Feb 22, 2006 | Article
The plastic recycling is difficult, expensive and not very exciting from economical and technical points of view. However, the enormous weight of plastic wastes, perhaps 80 million tonnes generated...
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...
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...