Plastic as art? You’d get a lot of guffaws from the general public, which is more familiar with artistic materials such as oil paint and metal sculpture, even glass. But plastic? Puh-leeze! But the answer is “yes,” plastic can be the raw material for art, and we can prove it, as more and more designers…
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With more and more attention focused on the effects of climate change, interest in bioplastics — which are produced from renewable biomass materials such as plant starch and vegetable fat — has grown considerably. Bioplastics can also be produced from recycled traditional plastics, which although based on petroleum, don’t add to climate change. Why? Because…
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As plastic injection molding continues to increase in popularity, (and despite what you may have heard, 3-D printing will not replace it any time soon), there is a growing shortage of employees skilled enough to add value to companies. On-the-job training has always been the go-to method for training your employees but it is expensive…
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You’ve probably seen them dozens, if not hundreds of times, in your refrigerator or elsewhere around the house: those stiff, usually dark-colored plastic trays and bulk packaging containers, holding food or beverages, toys or other consumer goods. These items are made of the aptly-named Rigid Plastic, usually high-density polyethylene, which has become one of the…
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(May 29, 2014) AdvanTech Plastics has entered into agreements with several Pepsico bottlers to produce the industry standard PCO 1881 caps for their CSD lines, reports AdvanTech president Al Zoller. Developed in 2011 by the International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT), which represents more than 800 beverage industry professionals in over 21 countries, PCO…
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New life has been injected into the primary plastics machinery industry: the numbers show sales of injection molding, extrusion, blowmolding and thermoforming equipment took off in the third quarter of 2013. Shipments of primary plastics equipment totaled an estimated $3,276 million in Q3, according to the Committee on Equipment Statistics of the Society of the Plastics…
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The elite of the world’s plastic and rubber industry descended on Dusseldorf October 16-23, as the K 2013 International Trade Fair drew more than 230,000 attendees to this European business and fashion capital. The continuing recovery of the plastic injection and rubber-injection molding industries foretold a successful trade show, and those expectations were indeed…
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