When we speak of memory in plastic materials, we are talking about a plastic parts ability to return to its original shape after it is deformed in some way. More specifically, we are talking about a part being able to return to its original shape after being held in a flexed position for an extended period of time.
The question is, what makes a material have good memory and what materials are best used for applications that require this property?
Plastics remain material of choice for inject-able drug packaging
Chase Plastics sets up Mexican subsidiary
Spot PE and PP prices firming up
DuPont starts up mega-compounding plant in Shenzhen China
Austrian family tries to live without plastics for one year to prove health benefits
Sonoco ramping up production of plastic cans
Polymer based flexible hose market to reach 500 million kg by 2020
DSM’s EcoPaXX provides high hydrolysis resistance for automotive cooling systems
If you want to know why you should not use hydrolysis resistant nylon, read here
Nylon is one of the oldest and most commonly used thermoplastics but there still seems to be a lot of confusion about properly drying nylon and in general about how nylon is affected by moisture. Moisture in the raw material causes many processing issues and part failures and the affects that moisture has on molded parts seems to confound people as well. I hope in this article to clear some of this up.
Polypropylene based compound eyes TPU market in gearshift knob application
Electric bike turns to PBT/ASA alloy for battery housing
Amcor closing Ohio based bottle preform production plant
Milliken touts polypropylene additives at K2016
Solvay expands PPS portfolio for food packaging
“Rivet” Graphine proves it’s mettle
SABIC shows new high flow polypropylene for packaging applications
We all know that you should always try and run a color concentrate with a carrier resin that matches the material that you running it in. But what if you don’t have the right color concentrate?
Continue reading “What if I Don’t Have the Right Color Concentrate?”
One the biggest technological advancements in plastics over the last 30 or so years have been the improvement in UV stability. I can remember how fast vinyl dashboards in cars used to split and crack from sunlight exposure. Today, you rarely see that until the car has been in the junk yard for a few years. Even white vinyl siding and fencing seem to hold their color reasonably well for a decade or more. This is thanks to additives manufacturers developing really sophisticated stabilizers and anti-oxidants that can be compounded into various plastic materials.
In this post, I wanted to de-mystify what causes UV damage to plastics and how UV stability is tested.
Everyone have a fun and safe 4th.
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