Shawn Mergler is a furniture design student in Buffalo, NY who sees creative possibility in plastic bottle caps and milk jugs. He wants plastic to be more than trash, but it’s hard to bend ...

For a snowboarder, “shredding” means making wonderful, athletic moves on the way down a ski hill. For a recycler, shredding is a profitable way to process plastic scrap into valuable pellets. However, ...

Hot melt extrusion (HME) formulation development depends heavily on choosing the appropriate polymers. This article reviews HME process parameters and highlights three polymers in HME: polyethylene ...

If the material supplier offers both MFR and MVR data, once this conversion is made, it can be noticed that the numbers are similar but usually not identical. The ratio of the two values—the MFR ...

Green Bay Plastics, a family-owned expert in plastic molding services, today emphasizes its leadership in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottle manufacturing. With decades of experience, the company ...

Using rheology to sort post-consumer plastics into their most appropriate applications can increase recyclability.