like a broken hinge or plastic case that I’d like in a different color, but I lost a button on my favorite coat. So I’ll be making a matching set of buttons. You’ll need a basic resin ...

Right now, you can’t put post-consumer resin ... meaning the plastic is stripped down to its fundamental building blocks, or monomers, and then refashioned into polymers in the form of pellets ...

Alpek's businesses include Alpek Polyester, a large PET resin and recycling business in North America, as well as Octal, a ...

An alternative material worth looking at is corrugated plastic (also known by its trade name coroplast) which is cheap, light, an excellent insulator, and easy to work with. Many enclosure designs ...

August saw a range of movement in North American commodity resin prices ... according to an industry source contacted by Plastics News. Combined with previous increases and decreases, regional ...

A recent study published in Microbiology Spectrum found that a resin ingredient is effective against coronaviruses and strongly decreases their infectivity on plastic surfaces. Viruses may persist ...

Others sell plastic lumber made from different types of recycled plastics. To improve the performance of these materials, floor decking suppliers may reinforce plastic lumber with fiberglass or resins ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Arriving on the scene in the late 1950s as a replacement for aluminum and wood siding, vinyl siding is made of synthetic PVC ...

It has absolutely no bearing on whether the item can or will be recycled. There are also the plastic resin codes with numbers from one to seven indicating what type of plastic the item is made off ...