The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
Primex DesignPrimex Design & Fabrication (formerly Woodruff Corp.; Richmond, IN), a manufacturer of reusable, returnable and fully recyclable plastic totes, shipping containers, point-of-purchase displays and retail packaging, has automated its production process for the manufacture of its Bubble-X Sleeve Pak durable sleeves for shipping. Part of the Primex Plastics family of companies, Primex Design & […]
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Huntsman Corp. (Salt Lake City) announced on May 22 that their boards of directors unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine in a merger of equals through an all-stock transaction. The merged company will be named HuntsmanClariant. On a pro forma 2016 basis, the combined companies will create a leading global […]
Newly expanded format processing facilities that will enable the aerospace industry to take advantage of thermoplastic composite materials have been brought online at Web Industries’ Atlanta Advanced Composites Center of Excellence. The company’s new Thermoplastic Composite Development and Qualification Center is specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for creating processes that format thermoplastic carbon fiber prepreg […]
On April 24, Toray Plastics (America) Inc. (North Kingstown, RI) President and CEO Mike Brandmeier along with Rhode Island Governor Gin Raimondo, University of Rhode Island (URI) President David M. Dooley, College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright, and College of Engineering student Kalvin Cho broke ground on the construction of a $125-million engineering complex at URI. Breaking ground […]
Empire PrecisionEmpire Precision Plastics (Rochester, NY), a manufacturer of high-volume, injection-molded opaque parts and optics, announced an expansion of the company’s precision mold manufacturing operations. Since the company acquired Advanced Mold & Tooling last year, Empire increased its ability to design, build and validate high-cavitation tools, and now has started its “tooling only” services for […]
If you’re just now getting your arms around collaborative robotics, buckle up—it’s going to be a wild ride into the next generation of automation. That was one of the take aways from a panel discussion on collaborative robotics at the Advanced Design & Manufacturing (AD&M) expo in Toronto this week. “Collaborative robotics is a big […]
Just when I thought I was becoming smarter than my smartphone, I learn that new cars are now smarter than their owners. Personally, I don’t want a car smarter than I am. In fact, cars equipped with every computer gadget that you never knew you needed are becoming the topic of conversation at dinner parties […]
Ethyl cellulose is an ether of cellulose i.e. it’s a cellulose derivative in which some hydroxyl groups of same glucose units get convert into groups of ethyl ether. According to the requirement, the number of ethyl groups may vary in the ethyl cellulose. The chemical names of ethyl cellulose are ethyl ether of cellulose and […]