Archive For The “Plastics” Category
Polyme/Plastic Recycling Codes Many times a company will get asked to manufacture a polymer or plastic part using only a sample part to guide them. Not an easy task at times, especially since literally thousands of polymer and plastic materials exist — and that does not count begin to take into account the number of […]
Over the past few months we have heard a lot of talk about the numbers printed on plastic containers which supposedly indicate the type of polymer material used to manufacture the plastic container… and only a few weeks ago we posted a blog entry about how someone needs to step in and enforce the numbering […]
A while back we posted information about glass transition temperatures, a topic related to differential scanning calorimetry. Since then we have had other questions from readers on polymer testing and in all honesty we think most of those questions got routed to a different web site because we just don’t know all that much about […]
Pretty much everyone LOVES the idea of recycling the materials used to manufacture plastic containers and making ‘new’ plastic containers with the recycled resin. We look at the numeric labels/stamps on our containers and toss them into the proper recycling bins. Now off those bins go to get recycled. The numeric codes, ranging from 1 […]