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Specialty Thermoplastic Compounds Push the Envelope in All Directions
At least eight new developments are pushing specialty thermoplastic compounds into higher levels of performance and opening up new areas of potential applications.
Read MoreRecruiting the Next Generation for Plastics
What better way to turn children onto the world of plastics than to make it into a video game?
Read MoreCosts of Doing Business
Everyone seems to agree that U.S. plastics processors are being beaten up by foreign competition.
Read MoreA Big World of Plastics Out There
The United States may be a superpower militarily, economically, and—as last month’s Olympics showed—athletically.
Read MoreWhy Don’t We Do It In the Mold?
That question has energized a lot of manufacturers and designers of plastic parts for automobiles, appliances, and consumer electronics.
Read MoreHow Do You Measure Up?
"Benchmarking" is in vogue these days, as companies look anxiously over their shoulder at the competition and wonder how they compare in quality, efficiency, and profitability.
Read MoreStill the Next Big Thing
If this month’s cover story has a familiar ring to you, it’s because this is not the first time the big OPP breakthrough has been announced.
Read MoreClose to My Heart
Okay, call me a geek if you like, but I’m going to say it: Process and production monitoring, the topic of this month’s cover story, has been near and dear to me for the last 20 years.
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Automotive Innovation Trend-Setting Technologies Garner SPE Awards
Paintless in-mold film decorating and carbon-fiber composites are making inroads in appearance and structural parts. Blow molding is finding new interior applications. And long-fiber thermoplastics are cutting weight and cost on the inside and outside of new passenger vehicles.
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New TPE Compounder Debuts in U.S.
Formulating thermoplastic elastomers is a highly customized ´óÏó´«Ã½.
Read MoreHigh-Temperature TPE Is Based on Silicone
Automotive engineers are becoming converts to thermoplastic elastomers as alternatives to thermoset rubbers, but they’ve found that TPEs can’t go everywhere rubber can—particularly under the hood.
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