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We're eager to meet you at this year's NPE!
At Booth #314 (South Hall) we'll have our computers buzzing to help answer your plastics questions and to demonstrate how Prospector can help your company.
On Monday, June 19th, IDES president Mike Kmetz will be presenting a seminar titled Using the Internet for Plastics Pricing & Materials Research.
We'll also be launching a new service called The Plastics Store™. You can learn more when you see us at NPE, otherwise we'll give you the details in an upcoming newsletter.
Warmest wishes,
The IDES Prospector Team
The Plastics Web™
NPE Booth #314 - We'll see you there!
1. RoHS Directive - Are you compliant?
The RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances - 2002/95/EC) takes effect on July 1, 2006. If you or your company sells electrical/electronic equipment to the European Union, you've no doubt heard of RoHS, but the question is: are you compliant?
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2. Predicting Reinforced Material Performance for Efficient Part Development
Design engineers have traditionally used Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to predict the structural performance of fiber-reinforced plastics. However, the technique presumes uniform distribution of fiber throughout the molded part. Generally, mold filling parameters and part geometry variations greatly affect the fiber distribution and orientation and, therefore, the part's resulting mechanical and thermal performance. To be sure, designers apply safety factors to their assumptions of material strength to help design against part failure. In some cases, though, the resulting designs can be too conservative – leading to added material cost – or simply marginal, requiring extra validation testing and development delays.
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3. Thermoplastics Report
Long-Glass Fiber-Reinforced ABS
will challenge long-glass polypropylene, as Dow Introduces its new 'Magnum Brace' molding compound.
A Fuel-Efficient, Thermoplastic-Bodied Car
to get 100km on just 1.5 L of diesel fuel (159 miles per gallon!) will be fast, sporty, streamlined and very light weight according to developer Loremo.
Lower-Cost, Two-Shot Molding of Automotive Glazing
is new from Milacron. The firm is teaming with Exatec to demonstrate a new process for two-shot molding of automotive windows without the cost, complexity or machine size required for rotary tooling.
Extended Shelf Life Milk Bottles will Become Lower Cost
with the first muli-layer reciprocating blow molding machine. This new Uniloy Milacron machine will produce HDPE multi-layer milk bottles 10-20% faster...
The Widest Film We've Seen
is 9.9 m (32.6 ft) wide and produced on a new Battenfeld Gloucester machine.
Lower-Cost Stretch Film
is claimed for an ingenious rotating-core-die DR-Pack blown film machine. The machine will challenge the current preference for extrusion casting of stretch film and provide biaxial orientation to allow downgauging.
For Compression Molding of Long-Fiber Thermoplastics,
a complete molding system called PDMS (progressive discreet molding system) is new from American Matrix Corporation.
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