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...
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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...
Sep 13, 2005 | Article
Foams are omnipresent in our daily life, mass-produced for insulation, packaging, padding, bedding and other visible or hidden applications such as structural foams that pass unnoticed for...
Sep 1, 2005 | Article
Any industrial part is not isolated but is immersed in an environment more or less complex made of gases, liquids and other solids. A very simple goods such as food packaging film is in contact with...
Aug 16, 2005 | Article
When the additives are added to a polymer to manufacture parts or goods, the theoretical amount of each additive isn't the real amount in the compound or the part because of * Loss during...
Aug 3, 2005 | Article
Additives enhance properties of polymers to allow more stringent engineering applications. The improvement must concern any particular property such as, for example: * Aesthetics, mechanical...
Jul 20, 2005 | Article
All the industrial activities consume resources and energy, pollute and compromise the future of the planet by global warming, atmospheric ozone depletion, accumulation of pollutants often under...
Jul 6, 2005 | Article
Earth is a semi-isolated system: * Ore, fossil fuels, atmosphere and other physical resources have a defined potential without inlet stream. If we use these resources their potential is lowered...