Low weight system components made of plastics come more and more in general use in industry. The production of these low weight parts requires laser welding of plastic parts increasingly. ROFIN presents their successful laser workstation family MPS with tailor-made integration packages for welding of polymers.
RTP Company, a leading global compounder of custom engineered thermoplastics, will feature successful applications created from its portfolio of industry-leading engineered thermoplastic compounds at the upcoming Fakuma exhibition in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Shawn Mealey, a Senior Industry Specialist for the Dow Corning Plastics Team, will present a free webinar aimed at improving the performance of polymers in compounding, processing, and product manufacturing, to air live on UL Prospector, October 1st, 2015 at 11 am (EST).
SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association and IHS Chemical, the leading global source of critical information and insight, announced today that Skylar Tibbits, a research scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Architecture and director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, will serve as the innovation keynote speaker for the upcoming 2015 Global Plastics Summit (GPS), scheduled for Oct. 28-30, 2015, in Chicago. Tibbits’ presentation is scheduled from 8:05-8:45 a.m., Friday, Oct. 30.
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has proved that 3D printing technology could be used to create intricate self-folding structures.
On their booth A6-6406 in hall 6 at this year’s Fakuma exhibition Coperion and Coperion K-Tron present themselves as innovative system providers for plastics processing. A highlight on the booth floor is the T35/S60 Quick Change Feeder which is on display together with a 2400 Series Pellet Receiver and the ActiFlow™ Smart Bulk Solids Activator.
RTP Company, a leading global compounder of custom engineered thermoplastics, is pleased to announce the development of new RTP 100 eXtra Performance (XP) Compounds, a series of thermoplastic compounds formulated for higher strength, modulus and impact properties than any standard chopped fiberglass polypropylene (PP) compounds available on the market today.
Foster Corporation, a leader in custom polymers for medical devices, now offers custom colored medical polymers in quantities as low as 25 pounds (11 kgs) within a two week lead time to support market demand for rapid prototype development. These include formulations using pigments compliant with FDA requirements for use in applications that contact the human body for up to 30 days.
ELIX Polymers, a leading specialist in ABS high performance materials, will demonstrate the benefits of the company’s superior tailor-made solutions for high quality thermoplastics applications.
An international collaboration of researchers has discovered that a drop of water could self-heal a multiphase polymer developed based on the genetic code of squid ring teeth. This breakthrough research holds promise for extending the service life of fiber-optic cables, medical implants and other difficult to repair in place objects.
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