May 17, 2006 | Article
Hybrid materials are not really a clearly defined material category but result from integration of one or more polymers on the one hand and, on the other hand, one or more other materials which...
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Apr 19, 2006 | Article
The set of mechanical properties of each raw polymer being generally unsuitable as it is for engineering applications, it is essential to upgrade and customize the raw materials by compounding...
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...
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...