by Jenifer Wolfe | Jan 25, 2018 | Injection Molding
How ABS Plastic Clawed Its Way to World Domination Worlds have been built with ABS plastic. As the material for most LEGO bricks and accessories, ABS is perhaps the most common “building” material in the known universe. The company’s splashy...
by Jenifer Wolfe | Jan 14, 2018 | Injection Molding
Polyethylene: Hula Hoops and Honey Bears For the product of a lab accident, polyethylene has gone on to stellar success. It’s currently starring in this installment of our plastics series. PE history One day in 1898, German chemist Hans von Plechmann was heating...
by Jenifer Wolfe | Jan 9, 2018 | Injection Molding
Plastic Types: Polypropylene We start with PP because it’s one of the most in-demand plastic materials in the world. Polypropylene belongs to the thermoplastics family, compounds that become malleable above a certain temperature and hard when cooled. The first...
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