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Article: Alloys & blends: the promise remains, but so do the challenges. (includes related article) (Cover Story)
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- Plastics Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1992
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A more sober view now prevails of the daunting technical and economic hurdles for alloy/blend development in the 1990s. New 'functionalized' alloys are seen as a key thrust for the future
Now comes the hard part for alloying and blending technology.
Establishing itself in the late 1980s as a premier field for the development of new engineering thermoplastics, alloying/blending promised virtually unlimited combinations of resins that could target specific market applications while taming the processing difficulties (and prohibitive cost) of exotic polymers.
Alloys and blends widely were predicted to be the dominant force for new material development in ...