(MENAFN- GetNews) If you're in the plastic manufacturing industry, you're probably familiar with the ongoing challenges of melt fracture, die build-up, and processing inefficiencies. These issues can ...

Editor?s note: The author, Donald E. De Laney, a consultant in polymer process rheology, worked with GE for 17 years and has worked with Dynisco over the past eight years. The plastics compounding and ...

This article discusses a number of problems that can be solved simply with an understanding of flow behavior without having to perform calculations. Given that most processes for shaping plastic and ...

Plastic materials can be found in practically every aspect of everyday life, including packaged foods, furniture, construction materials, vehicles, medical devices, and personal garments (to name a ...

CLINTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For decades, plastic film processors have battled to overcome one of their biggest processing challenges, melt fracture. Now they face another daunting feat, ...

First, my monthly reminder: There are no toxic plastics, none of them. Our materials are safe and do far more good for the environment than harm. When you meet anyone who thinks otherwise, try to find ...

Thanks to their safety, ease of application and ability to administer a precise dose of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), orally disintegrating films make an appealing method of dosage. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is shown experimentally that when an elastic liquid such as a polydimethylsiloxane is sheared in the gap of a cone-and-plate viscometer the ...