Custom Polymer Compounding: From Brief to Approved Grade
What happens between 'we need a grade for this part' and an approved compound on your purchase order: the brief, the stage gates, colour matching, and…
The Compound
Engineering notes on polymers, processing and sourcing. Written by the people who formulate and run our lines, for engineers and buyers who need answers, not adjectives.
Inside the Polymer Compounding Process on a Twin-Screw Line
Feeding, side-feeding of glass, melting, mixing, venting, pelletising, drying and QC: what happens along a twin-screw compounding line, and what can go wrong at each step.
Plastics in Electric Vehicles: Where Engineering Compounds Go
An EV swaps a fuel system for a high-voltage one, and the plastics brief changes with it. A part-by-part map of where engineering compounds go and…
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