ASTM Standards now available through The Plastics Store™

We're pleased to announce that we now have more than 1,000 plastic and rubber ASTM Standards available through The Plastics Store™.  Each test standard is available as a PDF download through our store from ASTM, a trusted source for technical standards for materials. Known for their high technical quality, ASTM International standards have an important role in design and manufacturing.

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You can also find Quick Property Descriptions on The Plastics Web®!

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The IDES Team

Video Demonstration: Who distributes this plastic?

Join Melissa Jones of IDES for a short demonstration showing how easy it is to find distributors for the plastics you're looking to buy using Prospector. For many of the plastics listed in Prospector, we have distributor contact information including their phone number and website address. See the video demonstration

Commercializing Bioresins 2007: Atlanta, Georgia November 29-30

Petroleum-based plastics may be on the road to fossilization: price volatility, chemical persistence, overall lifecycle costs, and health risks associated with these conventional plastics are sparking interest in renewable, plant-based plastics. With ever-increasing demand for limited raw materials such as petroleum oils, stocks of raw materials are dwindling. In conjunction with this, political instability has led to skyrocketing costs for these raw materials. It is only natural that end users have become more interested in renewable materials.

Commercializing Bioresins 2007: Emerging Markets for Biobased Plastics, IntertechPira’s third conference on biobased plastics, will provide a forum to explore growth opportunities for corn-, soy-, starch-, and cellulose-based resins in industrial applications.

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How to Make Profitable Production Decisions by Estimating Cost Allocations

November 2, 2:00 pm (EST)
Profitable production decisions require a firm understanding of your costs. But how do you accurately assign costs to individual machines and work-centers?

This 15 minute webinar will provide you with some simple and effective tools for assigning costs, and making more profitable pricing and production decisions.

Space is limited. Reserve your seat!

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  Cargill (Minneapolis, MN), owner of bioplastics supplier NatureWorks, has partnered with Japanese plastics supplier Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo) so that Teijin will acquire 50% ownership of NatureWorks, effective upon regulatory approvals. According to the firms, the joint venture will help accelerate NatureWorks’ global sales growth, and gives Cargill access to Teijin’s experience in fibers, films, and plastic compounds. View NatureWorks products in Prospector.

• Search of the Week - High Speed PBT
  In this week's search of the week video we look for High Speed PBT (polybutylene terephthalate). There are more than 2300 commercially available PBT grades (1432 in North America, 1300 in Europe and 900 in the Pacific Rim). PBT offers excellent mechanical properties combined with good chemical resistance. PBT has good impact resistance and toughness, low coefficient of friction & wear, and does not need lubrication. It also is resistant to chemicals, chlorine, water, and steam. They are designed for applications that demand mechanical property retention, during exposure to high heat and humidity.

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