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As you may have heard, our engineers have been feverishly working on an updated version of the Prospector search engine. Melissa Jones and Ann Redgate of IDES have organized a few upcoming events where you can join them to preview the application. Dates and times are listed here.
We also invite you to call us if you’d like to personally test out the new features: 800-788-4668 or 307-742-9227
In this issue:
- Drying Your Resin: What's the Best Technology?
- Accurately Estimating Capacity When Designing Plastic Gears
- 3 Secrets to Buying Resin
- A Glimpse of the New Prospector Plastics Search Engine
- The Plastics Marketplace™ Updates!
- Plastics Webinars & Training
- The IDES Team
Drying Your Resin: What's the Best Technology?
By Greg Lewis, General Manager, Matsui America
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The variety of technologies, and nuances in each technology, can make choosing the right resin dryer challenging. In addition, sorting through all the dryer manufacturers and their spin on how each technology works can be daunting. Here is the reality. No one technology works perfectly for all applications. It is your situation, application, and the resin types you process, that determine what type of dryer you should be using. |
Accurately Estimating Capacity When Designing Plastic Gears
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Certain parameters hold true when designing all gears, including plastic:
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Gear Design & Manufacturing Training Seminar UTS four-day gear training, held at UTS Rockford, teaches you basic and advanced gear design and theory. An hour of gear consulting with UTS experts is given on the last day and is included free of charge. |
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It’s never been more important to know that you’re paying the right price for resin. For many North American processors resin represents 50% or more of material costs. There isn’t a money-saving move you can make that will have a greater impact on your company. This free article includes three resin buying secrets that will improve your resin spend and bottom line when you put them to work in your operation. |
A Glimpse of the New Prospector Plastics Search Engine
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Join Ann Redgate and Melissa Jones of IDES for an inside glimpse of the new Prospector! Prospector can still help you save time and money with resin selection projects, but now it's even easier to do so!
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More and more molders, OEMs and suppliers use The Plastics Marketplace™ as a resource to sell secondary market resins. We get 500 visits to the marketplace every day (and it’s growing!). Today, we have more than 25 million pounds of resin listed for sale.
Did you know that you can receive an email that will alert you to the latest additions to the marketplace? It takes just seconds to sign up and best of all, it’s free!
You can also list materials that you have available. These resins can be prime, reprocessed, regrind, widespec or scrap. We have a number of suppliers and compounders of prime material that have had success in moving their inventory. It is fast, easy and also free of charge. Click here to see how to submit your materials.
Recent listings in the Marketplace include:
| Family | Description | Form | lbs | $/lb |
| SAN | Luran 368 R | REGRIND | 11,023 |
$0.41 |
| TPU, Unspecified | Virgin Natural Texin 990 - TPU w/lot# and cert. | PRIME | 5,000 |
$2.75 |
| ABS | Ext. grade ABS w/slight % acrylic, ASA and PVC fle... | REGRIND | 30,000 |
$0.35 |
| ABS+PC | General Purpose Black 9+ Izod, 12 Melt @ 260C - Bu... | REPRO | 160,000 |
$0.68 |
| Nylon 6 | Nylon 6- unfilled natural, good color, 11,000psi/t... | REPRO | 88,000 |
$0.75 |
| PC | Polycarbonate 3414R-701 | VIRGIN | 6,600 |
$2.00 |
| Nylon 6 | REGRIND | 40,000 |
$0.52 |
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| PC+PBT | Xenoy 5220 | REGRIND | 40,000 |
$0.39 |
| HDPE | HDPE Post Industrial Natural Repro. - 0 .6 - 0 .8 ... | REPRO | 150,000 |
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| HDPE, MMW | HMW-HDPE Post Industrial Black Pipe Regrind | REGRIND | 40,000 |
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