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 ...

CLINTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Converters who blow mold bottles know only too well how making a resin formulation or color change can hamper productivity. It can easily take several hours and ...

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 ...

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