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Plastics Trends Analysis

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Understanding the Challenges of Using Post-Consumer Resins
September, 2010

As everybody is looking at solutions associated with lower carbon footprint, many different ways have been developed to achieve this goal - increased recycling of materials, developing materials having a lower carbon footprint (e.g: biobased plastics), reducing material consumption (e.g: reduced thicknesses, advanced foaming systems). Within the polymer industry one efficient way to reduce carbon footprint is to...

Past Community Insights

	August, 2010 - Diverse Processing Technologies with Promising Future To fuel the growth of polymer uses, one needs to diversify the ways of processing them. This is why the proposed answers to the July 2010 Click’N Vote were kept away from the well-known, long-used and most easy ways of processing polymers; like single injection molding, extrusion or thermoforming. The Omnexus Editorial Team only focused on more sophisticated ways of processing polymers; although most of them are already rather old. Overall results show a rather...

	July, 2010 - Expectations on near future polymers Ranking expectations on what the future generations of polymers should bring is giving a good idea of the main issues faced today by polymer users and processors. This was the initial goal of the June 2010 Click’N Vote of Omnexus. When looking at the results of roughly 150 answers ones must confess they are surprisingly showing...

	June, 2010 - Multiple Markets Require Improved Surface Properties Improving surface properties of plastics is a rather broad topic: diverse applications require ever-increasing performances, and properties to improve them are also numerous. Some might need increased scratch resistance, while others desperately look for higher UV-resistance. In the quest for improving performances of plastics, enhancement of surface properties is indeed a relevant and actual need! This is why we analyzed the R&D Highlight, published on May 17th on Omnexus, titled "Plastics with improved surface characteristics"...

	May, 2010 - Most Critical Improvements in Injection Molding Processes When most of the announcements made while launching a new product or technology underline the possible cost reduction they bring, it seems as reflected in the results above, a slight different perception of what is really critical. In fact all the above answers lead to cost reduction, but the one that is intimately linked to cost reduction is for sure "Cycle time reduction"; which is not ranked as the main priority, but 5.8% behind the number one priority - Process stabilization.

	April, 2010 - Markets Focusing on Polymer Recycling The current focus on environmentally friendly solutions and the global warming debate are driving the need for increased recycling of materials, including plastics. In fact, Omnexus members interested in recycling solutions is an active and an ever increasing sub-community. But there are some disparities within the entire Omnexus community. This is what is on focus in this month's Community Insight on Omnexus.

	March, 2010 - Polymer Innovations Fueling Creativity There is always some excitement when talking about new applications, smart uses of polymers or even breakthrough part designs. Such topics have the good effect of shaking ideas and brains. This is always a good opportunity to view things from a different angle; thus pushing ourselves to re-think the way we usually run part design, or select materials. But next to this excitement there is a...

	February, 2010 - High Heat Thermoplastic Users on Omnexus There are signs that tell a lot. Measuring a more than 3% increase in the number of new registrants in such a tough year as 2009, is one of them. This is what we measured when considering the new Omnexus members using one of the high heat thermoplastics like PEEK, PPS, PEI or PES (to name a few). Another self-speaking sign is the huge increase in...

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