Recently added articles from British Plastics & Rubber:
Automotive business, very good or horrid?(comment)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Page 16 this month has an interesting juxtaposition of stories about injection moulders. Holloid Plastics is investing for growth and getting it; Sovrin Plastics has bought a five-machine all-electric automation cell to make a drug delivery system; and Plastic Engineering (Leamington) has ...
Polymers, blends, alloys ... now what?(comment)
Sep 01, 2009; ... As if the plethora of polymer types wasn't already enough to cope with, the chemists are devising ways to bring us more. While strictly speaking the new materials easing themselves on to the market are not polymers in the sense of new and different combinations of monomers, they are a step ...
Happy birthday to SR.(comment)
Sep 01, 2009; ... I can't go without saying happy birthday to synthetic rubber. As I write this it is 100 years to the day (September 12, 1909) that Professor Fritz Hofmann at Eberfelder ...
MPE blend cuts gauge of heavy duty bag film.(feature: packaging)
Sep 01, 2009 ... By blending two metallocene polyethylenes ExxonMobil Chemical has cut the gauge needed for heavy duty bags in the Far East. The standard gauge for heavy duty bag film is 140 microns, but the blend of Enable and Exceed has returned the balance of high stiffness, creep resistance and ...
High speed homopolymer improves on RCPP.(feature: packaging)
Sep 01, 2009 ... A new injection moulding grade polypropylene from SABIC combines clarity with high stiffness for thin-walled transparent products. PP FPH50 is a homopolymer which SABIC says can increase output by up to 20 per cent because of its faster injection and increased crystallisation speed which ...