Plastic granulate is an essential raw material for plastic manufacturers and forms the basis for countless products in automotive, packaging and medical industries. When performance matters, thermoset ...

The use of plastic materials globally has greatly increased over the past five decades, and currently more than 100 million tons of these materials are used. In terms of tonnage, thermoplastics are ...

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) coordinates the HITCOMP (High Temperature Characterisation and Modelling of Thermoplastic Composites) project within the Horizon 2020 programme, which aims ...

Today, Built-Rite, located in Lancaster, MA, is the parent company of Reliance Engineering, a molder of thermoplastic and thermoset materials, and LSR Engineering, which performs LSR molding. Four ...

Whilst many have been discussing and championing the benefits of thermoplastic composites (TPCs) as the next breakthrough, high-volume, lightweighting technology for more than a decade, their market ...

Showing off multi-material joining, natural fiber composites. With three iterations in development and poised to go on the market, KTM Technologies’ new motorcycle brake disc covers demonstrate ...

A process that converts thermosetting waste plastics into synthesis gas, a raw material for hydrogen production, has been developed in South Korea. Plastics are generally divided into thermoplastics, ...

The growth in the use of lightweight composite materials in the automotive industry is subjected to meeting challenges such as sustainability. The first rel­evant applications of composite materials ...

Spaulding Composites Inc. has diversified into thermoplastic injection molding by acquiring another company in its home state of New Hampshire. Spaulding said Aug. 25 that it bought Burbak Plastics of ...

Custom thermoset molder Woodland Plastics Corp. has purchased an 88-ton Arburg Allrounder injection molding press for its headquarters plant in Addison, Ill. The Arburg machine, installed in February, ...