Trinseo to acquire Italian TPU and EVA supplier
Solvay conducting studies to see how compatible its PPS resins are with automatic transmission fluid
Weekly Resin Report: No June gloom in spot resin markets
Commodity resin prices drop in May
Ineos investing more than 2 billion dollars in European expansion
Celanese to open acetal plant in Saudi Arabia later this year
Lanxess offering two new flame retardant glass fiber reinforced nylon 6 materials
No, not that kind of clam shell. No one has a problem with that. You know what I’m talking about, the clear, impossible to open, nearly sliced your hand off while trying to open it with a butcher knife, packaging that everything from toys to batteries seems to arrive in. This kind:
I’m not going to try to dissuade you from despising this type of packaging. I just want to explain what they are made of and why they are used.
Continue reading “The Much Maligned Clam Shell Blister Pack”
Borealis to build compounding plant for automotive materials in North Carolina
Clariant and Huntsman to merge
Weekly Resin Report: PE producers shock market with cut in resin prices
ExxonMobil completes installation of two new PE lines at Mont Belvieu TX plant
Bakelite documentary screened at SPE conference
Prices down for PS, PE and PET, up for PA 6/6 and PC
Albis breaks ground on new compounding plant
Weekly Resin Report: PE purchasing may have peaked
New PA12 from Evonik meets stringent fire protection code for rail vehicles
A. Schulman moving ahead with new product and sales strategy after “reset year”
Solid PS & PET bottle resin prices slide in April
Teknor Apex grows nylon business with new Creamid product line (yes Creamid)
NILIT completes sale of nylon division to Celanese
Ineos Styrolution to increase ABS & ASA capacity in Mexico and announces new plant in Texas
Weekly Resin Report: PE, PP prices trending down
M Holland to build new distribution center near Chicago & Here
Nova Chemicals to pay large settlement to Dow for patent infringement
PP prices tumble 5.5 cents in April
Lanxess investing $27 million in Belgium to improve nylon production & Here
Plasticomp installs new pultrusion line to make long carbon fiber reinforced materials
Most of us in the plastic materials industry have some familiarity with the various ASTM and ISO test methods that are reported on data sheets and certificates of analysis. However, if you do a deep dive into any of the test methods, and by deep dive I mean read from stem to stern, you will find all kinds of things that you might not have thought of. Having set up and run an accredited testing laboratory in the past, I performed deep dives into many of the ASTM and ISO procedures.
Today, I want to explore one small part of the ASTM D 638 procedure for tensile properties. Before you say that you would rather drink battery acid, let me assure you that I will not dive too deep and I will leave you with some practical information and you will be able to point out a mistake on a lot of data sheets and certificates of analysis in the future.
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