by Jason Post | Jan 22, 2018 | Injection Molding
Nylon: A Material with Legs In a time when it was still scandalous for women to wear pants and bare legs were unthinkable,nylon came to the rescue as an alternative to silk and woolens. Developed by DuPont in the mid-1930s and exhibited at the New York World’s...
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 Jason Post | Jan 12, 2018 | Injection Molding
Here’s your State of the Plastics Market for January 2018 and what to expect from your plastic suppliers. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the price for all grades of PP are shooting through the roof right now, and it has seemed to have all happened in...
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...
by Jason Post | Nov 30, 2017 | Injection Molding
I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving Break and didn’t eat nearly as much turkey as I did. I still have a bit of a tryptophan hang over, but I’m already looking forward to next year. It is my favorite holiday meal of the year by far. The plastics market is still...
by Jason Post | Nov 16, 2017 | Innovation
Whatever your opinion about his legacy, Lyndon B Johnson was a special character in American history. He became the 36th President of the United States which is a great accomplishment in itself. Like many successful people he had a plan for success. The interesting...
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