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Article: Clear alternatives, transparent motives: clear resins are competing with glass and each other in consumer applications.(NORTH AMERICA)
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- Plastics Engineering
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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More and more, consumers seem to be looking for greater transparency in their personal products, whether water bottles or automobiles. At nearly every level--from the disposable package to the highly engineered product--plastics have been able to fulfill these desires. But ironically, this transparency has made the limitations of some these materials more visible.
Non-PC Alternatives
For example, polycarbonate has received extra (unwanted) attention lately, given discussion about the health effects of bisphenol-A (BPA) monomer remnants that remain in PC after polymerization. The effects of BPA are still being debated in terms of science and regulation, ...
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Article: Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), of Holland, Ohio ...
Plastics Engineering;
June 1, 2009 ;
700+ words
...Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), of Holland, Ohio USA, will be at Booth $26081 at NPE2009. The company recently announced ... PTI's sister company, Phoenix Technologies of Bowling Green, Ohio USA. www.phoenixtechnologies.net.
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