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Glass Bubbles Reduce Weight of TPO Parts (.pdf)
Resin compounder Noble Polymers of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a subsidiary of Cascade Engineering, has developed a low-density polyolefin resin formulation that reduces the weight of TPO plastic parts by up to twenty percent. This masterbatch bulk resin additive incorporates hollow glass bubbles from
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Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Known as the Novacor/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Polyolefin and Catalyst Technology, the chairholder is Scott Collins, a UW chemistry professor. Research will be primarily in the area of single-site catalysts. Catalysts are chemicals that affect the rate
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Sealing the deal
. Polyolefin film is more elastic; it's commonly used with foods because it does not release harmful chemicals when heated and stretched. It's also used for products having sharp corners, because it is less brittle and resists breaking. For high production capacities, automatic equipment most commonly
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that could be HF welded. Introduced by the Dow Chemical Company, Fabricated Products (Midland, MI, USA) at Medica, Covelle films reportedly allow manufacturers to process polyolefin films without investing in new capital equipment. In addition, they may be able to downgauge their material without
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Company announces launch of new heat-shrink tubing line. Extremely thin-walled polyolefin heat-shrink tubing has been introduced by Cobalt Polymers (Cloverdale, CA; 800/337-0901). The highly flexible, strong tubing was developed specifically for medical device applications. It is available
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such as polypropylene, polyethylene, and other low-energy rubbers and plastics by using the company's polyolefin primer. A contract manufacturer that designed and produced an in-line silicone pump set specified the instant curing adhesive to bond polypropylene to polypropylene and polypropylene to silicone. More
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Medical Device Link . Chlorine-Free Blends for Flexible Medical Tubing
of a polyolefin material. As yet, however, no substitute has been widely accepted as a chlorine-free replacement for PVC-based materials. Figure 1. An example of an intravenous set with the tubing bonded to a variety of IV components. In the present study, two chlorine-free thermoplastics were examined
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Focus on the photocell
fastest toward commercialization. The halls buzzed with the news that researchers at the University of Texas had successfully printed 0.08-um features on a silicon wafer using an etched quartz phase-shift mask, a novel amorphous polyolefin resist, and a 193-nm DUV stepper. On the nonoptical front