This book is designed as a practical text for use in the laboratories of the plastic producer and user industries and by others such as universities and institutions who are concerned with problems ...

dditive manufacturing (AM) is a high-priority technology growth area for U.S. manufacturers. Innovative AM processes that fabricate parts layer-by-layer directly from a 3-D digital model have great ...

Superior cost-to-performance ratio, resilience, and versatility are the core reasons behind the success of polymers in every major field. However, their inherent properties need to be modified as per ...

Only 2 percent of the 78 million tons of manufactured plastics are currently recycled into similar products because polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), which account for two-thirds of the ...

When Geoffrey Coates, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this question: What percentage of the 78 ...

Pictured above: Geoffrey Coates, center, in his lab with James Eagan, a postdoctoral researcher in Coates’ group, and researcher Anne LaPointe. Credit: Cornell University During his presentations on ...

Struktol Co. of America LLC, a Stow, Ohio-based manufacturer of polymer additive technology, is displaying its additive solutions for recycled plastics at the Plastics Recycling Conference Feb. 23–25, ...

The Indianapolis-based start-up Mito Material Solutions has received $1 million in seed funding from Dipalo Ventures, Clean Energy Trust, and other investors. Mito got $1.1 million last year from the ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio—Ferro Corp. has sold its North American polymer additives business to a private equity firm for $154 million in cash. The sale to HIG Capital L.L.C. of New York includes plants in ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio—Flow Polymers, the additives business of Polymer Solutions Group (PSG), has increased its footprint in Ohio with the acquisition of New Philadelphia-based Performance Additives ...