Plastic Materials & Additives

What is Environmental Stress Cracking?

Environmental stress cracking (ESC) is not the result of the continual battle that the plastics industry has in convincing environmentalists and politicians that plastics can be the solution to environmental problems and not the cause.

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Silvergate Manufactures World’s Most Versatile Bioplastic

Silvergate Plastics, the UK’s largest independent manufacturer of colour masterbatch, has joined forces with Floreon-Transforming Packaging Limited, the pioneers of an advanced and versatile bioplastic formulation.

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ALBIS Presents Product Highlights at Fakuma 2018

From October 16th to 20th, 2018, ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH will be presenting its portfolio of high-performance plastics, compound solutions, and masterbatches at FAKUMA 2018 in Friedrichshafen, Germany (hall A3, booth A3-3105).

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Solved! Black Plastics Made Recyclable by The Collective

Next month, gourmet dairy brand The Collective will be the first FMCG business to introduce a novel near-infrared (NIR) colourant technology developed by masterbatch and additive specialist Colour Tone, to ensure its iconic black plastic […]

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Polymer Price Reports Released for August 2018

The latest polymer price reports and charts have been released by Plastrack.

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Just Why Would You Choose ABS?

ABS is one of the original engineering thermoplastics. A classic all-rounder with a good blend of performance and aesthetic properties.

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What are Engineering Thermoplastics?

Today the term is conveniently applied to certain families of thermoplastics which have a higher performance than the group of thermoplastics labelled ‘Commodity Thermoplastics’.

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IMCD to Acquire VELOX Group

IMCD N.V. a leading distributor of speciality chemicals and food ingredients, today announces that it signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of VELOX GmbH, a group of companies with its headquarter […]

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ALBIS’ USA Site Achieves IATF 16949 Certification for Automotive Suppliers

The site of ALBIS PLASTICS CORPORATION, US subsidiary of ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH, in Duncan, South Carolina is now certified according to IATF 16949. Therefore the Hamburg-based company now produces according to the most important quality […]

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Hardie Polymers – Technical Blog Series

A few years ago Hardie Polymers commissioned a series of technical articles by the late Dr Charlie Geddes.

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