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Your Experts |
| Corrosion Control: Your guide to the best mold care |
Slide Products Inc. |
| Bioplastics or Biobased (Renewable) Materials 101 in Q & A Format |
Dr. Ramani Narayan, MSU |
| Plastic Material Identification with Raman Spectroscopy |
Keith Carron, DeltaNu & Rodrigo Sanchez, Intevac |
| Strong Growth Forecast for LFT Market |
Sue Thackeray, Townsend Polymer Services & Information |
| The Basics of Resin Selection |
Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc. |
| Finding More RoHS Compliant Plastics Faster |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| High-Temperature Plastics: Can They Really Take the Heat? |
Solvay Advanced Polymers |
| Fixing Brittle Nylon Product With Water |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Specific Gravity of Plastic Materials |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Why Plastics Fail |
Vishu Shah, Consultek |
Plastics for Olympians
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Melissa Jones, IDES |
| Locating RoHS Compliant Plastics |
Melissa Jones, IDES |
| Polymeric Foams and Foam Technology - Book Review |
Patrick A. Toensmeier, Consultant |
| New Ultradur® HR PBT & Ultradur® HR + NaOH Resistant PBT |
BASF |
| TPE Fundamentals Part 1: Understanding TPEs |
Richard Rabe, RTP Company |
| Sourcing equivalent materials in the global economy |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| TPE Fundamentals Part 2: Choosing the Correct TPE |
Richard Rabe, RTP Company |
| Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs) |
Richard Rabe, RTP Company |
| Relative Dimensional Change of Various Polyamide Products Due to Moisture Absorption |
Steve Gerbig, DSM Engineering Plastics |
| Glow-in-the-dark compound helps make safety stylish |
Levic Plastics |
| Metal-to-plastic and still conductive |
Michelle Maniscalco, Injection Molding Magazine |
| Competitive Offset Grades of Plastics |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Optimal Overmolding Grades and Substrate Considerations |
Richard Rabe, RTP Company |
| Predicting Reinforced Plastic Material Performance for More Efficient Plastic Part Development |
Dr. Emile Homsi, BASF Performance Polymers |
| Staying ahead of the curve |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Material Selection - It's Not About Inventory |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| What's Really Going on with Plastics Prices? |
Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc. |
| Bio-based materials are headed your way |
Michelle Maniscalco, Injection Molding Magazine |
| Physical testing as a failure analysis tool |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Detective Work with FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| RoHs Explained |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Making sense of melt-flow rate, melt-volume rate, and melt viscosity |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| How to Decode ASTM Callouts |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Web-exclusive - The Materials Analyst, Part 72: When investigations change direction |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Dry vs. Conditioned Polyamide (Nylon) Explained |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Nonsensical analysis |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Finding Alternative Plastics |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Density, bulk density, melt density and specific gravity |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| The hidden cost of recycling (Web-exclusive) |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Resin Spec Check: Test standards - back to basics |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Resin Spec Check: More materials, more choices - which one is right? |
Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc. |
| RoHS Directive |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| A matter of time—Part 2 |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Getting the Most Out of Your Data |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Molecular weight—A tale of two materials |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| A matter of time—Part 1 |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Material control across 12 time zones—Part 2 |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Material control across 12 time zones—Part 1 |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Tracking down the source of degradation during processing |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
| Restructuring the internet materials marketplace |
Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc. |
| Finding the Right Resin |
Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc. |
| Global Plastic Specifications (GPS): Hmm, where are OEMs? |
Ben Howe, IDES Inc. |
| Choosing
Resins in the 21st Century |
Michelle Maniscalco, Injection Molding Magazine |
| Getting the Most Out of Your Data (pdf) |
Michael Sepe, Dickten & Masch LLC |
