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Compostable Coffee Pod Maker Uses 3D Printing for Prototypes
The company says 3D printing has helped it to save time and cut back on waste and emissions by prototyping 100% in house.
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Designing Recycled Content: How Processors Fit In
Brand owners, material suppliers and processors weigh in on the challenges and opportunities of designing applications with recycled content.
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Additive Manufacturing: Through the Molders’ Lens
Many in the manufacturing world experienced first-hand how agile and efficient 3D printing is when companies began to print products to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Custom molder EVCO expanded its 3D printing capabilities during this time to help produce parts quickly.
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Closed-Loop Recycling Makes Old Printer Cartridges New Again
Canon runs a big recycling operation in Virginia where it collects and sorts toner cartridges, pelletizes the scrap, then molds new cartridges from the reclaim.
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Building an Ocean-Bound Plastics Supply Chain
Atando Cabos, working with partners ExxonMobil and Engel, is taking discarded fishing rope and transforming it into raw material to reincorporate into the production chain as long-term recyclable products.
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Braskem Expanding into the 3D Printing Market
In 2020, Braskem launched polypropylene for fused filament fabrication, SLS powder bed fusion, and industrial scale pellet extrusion.
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New Liquid Materials for Additive Manufacturing
Suited to use in automotive and microelectronic applications, these light-curing epoxy resins have been optimized specifically for industrial 3D printing applications.
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Cosmetics Packaging Made with Eastman Cristal Renew
Axilone is producing luxury packaging with 50% certified recycled content in the U.S., Europe and China.
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Borealis and Tomra Open Mechanical Recycling Demo Plant
The new plant will produce ready-for-market fully formulated polymer pellets.
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New Technology Combines 3D Printing with Injection Molding
This new concept 3D prints a metallic endoskeleton and then injection molds a special polymer around that skeleton.
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Key Additive Manufacturing Trends to Watch in 2021
EOS, HP, Carbon and Essentium give a preview of what to expect from additive manufacturing in 2021.
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Ineos R&D Project Develops Styrenic Polymer for 3D Printing that Boasts 67% Energy Savings
The purpose of the PolySLS project was to develop and test a new styrene based polymer compound for Selective Laser Sintering (SLS).
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