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economics 1 Nov 2001

Fear of Buying

President Bush has urged American consumers to go on about their lives, spend money, keep the economy going. That advice can’t come too soon for plastics processors anxious to get idle machines working.

1 Oct 2001

Things Have Changed

"I live in New York." When I travel, that sentence always brings a reaction from out-of-towners—often positive, sometimes less so.

Elastomers 1 Sep 2001

Materials (K 2001 Preview)

New materials at K 2001 are weighted heavily toward the engineering variety, especially nylons, acetals, and TP polyesters. A large handful of polypropylenes round out the major news.

1 Sep 2001

"Sure, we sell all-electric machines"

A jump-on-the-bandwagon mentality seems to have gripped the injection machinery ��ý with respect to the market buzz surrounding “all-electric” machines.

1 Aug 2001

Chicken or Egg?

If your injection molding plant capacity is sold out and you aren’t really looking for new customers, then bless you, there’s no need to read further. Feel free to turn the page. For the rest of you, Plastics Technology is launching a new service this month that might help you get some of those idle machines running.

1 Aug 2001

High-Speed, Thin-Wall Molding Doesn't Need an Accumulator

Forget about using a gas accumulator or a special beefed-up machine to fill thin-wall parts fast. Just let the melt do all the work!

1 Jul 2001

Getting Answers the Old-Fashioned Way

Turning points in science and technology are not usually about finding the right answer but about discovering a better question.

1 Jun 2001

Hot & Heavy

Plastics have succeeded for decades by doing things metals can’t match. Now they are doing what metals can do but plastics aren’t supposed to.

dies 1 Jun 2001

How to Get 50% Higher Output Of Large PVC Profiles

With the right combination of die and cooling technologies, there’s no reason why extruders of large, complex PVC profiles cannot get up to 50% faster throughput than they are now used to.

1 May 2001

Experience Counts

If I were scaling a mountain peak, I would want to be confident that every member of my climbing team “knew the ropes.” You know what I mean: You want the best people in your plant on those critical jobs.

Engineering Resins 1 May 2001

New Polypropylene/PPO Alloys Fill a Cost/Performance Gap

A brand-new family of thermoplastics for automotive and other markets offers an intermediate range of cost and performance between those of TPOs and engineering resins such as nylon, ABS, long-glass PP, and some modified PET and PBT materials. GE Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass., has broadened its Noryl range of PPO alloys by adopting a new matrix material: polypropylene. New patent-pending technology allows the incompatible PP and PPO materials to be blended so as to create new balances of stiffness, toughness, and heat resistance in a moderate price range. Initial Noryl PPX grades are priced between $1.20 and 1.80/lb.

1 Apr 2001

The Next Big Thing

The Eighties and much of the Nineties were about living large. Now it's cool to be small. Remember how SUVs and TV screens inflated to gargantuan proportions? Today, the macho thing is to have the tiniest cell phone in town.