The number of people employed by the U.S. plastics industry and the value of products made by the industry both saw small ...

Acrylic beads are made from a synthetic material called acrylic resin. This versatile material ... has unique optical ...

Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste ... in before you really change the properties of the end product? Right now, you can’t put post-consumer resin in everything.

have good friction and mechanical properties and are used in containers, medical devices, wear parts, and engineered components. In comparison to other plastic resins, polyethylenes have low strength, ...

Polymers and plastic resins are compounds comprised of two or more repeating ... which are used to change their physical and mechanical properties.

The silicone doesn’t care as much but the resin demands that it be mixed very very well or it will cure improperly (usually with strange and baffling material properties, like being weirdly ...

Megan Hill is an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the Hill Lab in Colorado State University's College of ...

Turning some of it into fuel, as a Michigan facility plans to do, is labeled as “recycling,” but it may be worse for the ...

If you had always wondered how modern materials kept getting stronger and lighter then you are certainly not alone Among many ...

Homemade part washer using plastic bin and a cheap magnetic ... Rinsing with a wash bottle filled with clean IPA. Different resins have different properties as well: some are easier and some ...

In its earnings report for the first half of 2024, the Lego Group notes continued increases in the amount of plastic resin purchased from sustainable sources certified under the mass balance principle ...