Polymer Resources’ updated Rochester, New York, facility features increased grinding and shredding capacity for recycling plastic waste to support circularity and sustainability. Photo Credit: Polymer ...

Compounder Polymer Resources Ltd. has completed a major expansion of its plant in Rochester, N.Y. The expansion will increase the site's annual production capacity by 40 percent, officials with ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Dirk Leister from Thermo Fisher Scientific about the role of torque rheometers in the field of polymer compound development. To start, could you give a brief overview ...

The screw conveyor has an extensive history. Archimedes (ca. 212 BC) invented the first screw conveyor, and his design is still used today for irrigation and grain transfer. Screw conveyors became ...

In view of the growing mountains of waste in the oceans and on land, the plastics industry is currently looking for new ways to significantly improve the recyclability of plastics. The long-term goal ...

Lanxess, a glass fiber manufacturers, is seeing a marked growth in demand for its milled short glass fibers (milled fiber) for plastic compounding, but not only. This is particularly true for the ...

Exilica employees are working to develop and find commercial uses for micrometer-sized spherical polymer particles (called µ-Sq beads) and sub-micrometer sized hollow silica shells. The JDA brings ...

The global plastic compounding market size was US$ 642,738.7 million in 2021. The global plastic compounding market is forecast to grow to US$ 932,575.9 million by 2030 by registering a compound ...