Currently,as you read this blog,there is an area of plastic trash floating over the Pacific ocean the size of Texas.If that is not enough to shake you,consider all the floating plastics that will add to this on its way from Japan after the ...
Tags: plastic trash, bioplastics, renewable sources, protect enviroment
The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules
When people see refrigerator,not many think about the mechanism that goes inside it.Refrigeration works due to Refrigerant Gases.The most popular HFC refrigerant used for new appliances nowadays is R-134a.This gas is being used in common ...
Tags: Refrigerant Gases, Specialty Chemicals, R-134a, HFC, SF6, refrigerator
The year 2012 has not been the same for all of Taiwan`s plastic extrusion machine suppliers.During this period of global economic uncertainty,some suppliers have had an increase in contract orders while others have seen a decline in ...
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Janice Feldman JANICE FELDMAN'S AWARD-WINNING designs reflect influences far beyond her Southern California roots but circle back to those ecofriendly, sun-soaked philosophies. As founder and president of JANUS et Cie, her creations run ...
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ISO 14001:1996 Environmental management systems. Requirements with guidance for use BS EN 15347:2007 Plastics. Recycled Plastics. Characterization of plastics waste BS EN 15342: 2007 Characterisation of polystyrene (PS) recyclates BS EN ...
Production efficiency was the focus of this year’s Technology Days event, organized in March by injection molding machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG in Lossburg. Arburg defines production efficiency as an overarching “meta ...
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Researchers in China have used a combination of surface texturing and vertical-stand mounting to increase light output from nitride semiconductor LEDs by up to 118.5%[T.B.Wei et al,IEEE Electron Device Letters,published online 7 May ...
Tags: LEDs, VLED, GaN, GaN substrate, MOCVD
Arburg has developed a hydraulic compression moulding machine designed to for a 0.5mm -thick optical application. The machine and application was debuted in Shanghai at Chinaplas 2012. To mould the light guide panels, a thin optical panel ...
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One of the interesting medical demonstrations at NPE 2012 will be molding of components in a multi-cavity mold for SHL, a major Swedish producer of drug delivery devices. It will be representative of one of the medical market trends to look ...
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Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that the plastics industry will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to enact bans on polystyrene takeout containers, ...
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Sustainable packaging upstart Ecovative Design LLC has received tremendous attention over the past year for its disruptive technology introduction of protective packaging materials grown from agricultural byproducts bound together by ...
Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press, blanking, embossing, bending, flanging, and coining. This could be a single stage operation where every ...
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Despite a market recovery following the 2008-9 recession, demand for European food and beverage packaging in specific areas is being hit by "structural changes" including the sustainability trend. Applied Market Information (AMI) drew this ...
Lost-foam casting (LFC) is a type of evaporative-pattern casting process that is similar to investment casting except foam is used for the pattern instead of wax. This process takes advantage of the low boiling point of foam to simplify the ...
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