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Aimplas participates in European Space Agency project to develop new materials under microgravity conditions in the Earth’s orbit.

View of the northern region of the Earth.

16:9

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Kunststoff

Unternehmen

Aimplas Supports ESA Project

Bayport Polymers LLC have started-up a new ethane cracker with an annual production capacity of 1 million t of ethylene.

Polyethylen

Polyethylen, ultrahoch-molekulares

Polyethylen-Platten

Polyethylenterephthalat

Polyethylen-Halbzeug

Start-up of a New Ethane Cracker

For efficient lightweight construction fiber-reinforced plastics with a thermoplastic matrix are increasingly being used. How can these so-called organo sheets be optimised?

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Polyamide

Gewebe, technisch

Flammschutzmittel

Organobleche (gewebeverstärkte Thermoplast-Halbzeuge)

Thermoplaste

Short fiber modification of matrix-rich zones of fabric-reinforced thermoplastic composites by in-situ melt impregnation – influence on quasi-static properties

The production of particle foams with low densities and at the same time high molding quality is difficult, so the development of foamed polymer blends could simplify the entire processing.

Blend

Partikelschäumen

Polylactid

Schäumen / Reaktive Verarbeitung

Study of expandable PLA particle foams – Influence of the blend system on processability and properties

This thesis deals with the development of novel materials with increased thermal conductivity and flame retardancy and their processing conditions for PCB substrate applications.

Harze, Epoxid

Elektrisch leitende Füllstoffe (Metalllegierungen, Ruß, Graphit)

Novel Thermally Conductive and Flame-Retardant Substrates for Printed Circuit Boards – Structure-Property Relationships

This thesis deals with the frictional heating of tribological polymer systems and their influence on tribological behavior.

Polyetherketon

Prüfen von Kunststoffen

Tribologie

On the Effect of the Heat Balance During Tribological Testing of Plastics

The infrared welding is a well-established process in the industrial production of parts in various applications. However, the complex emitter-material interaction, which influences the meltdown behaviour of the plastic parts, results in a high effort for the process setup. A smoking of the plastic parts is to observe in numerous industrial infrared welding processes. The correlations between the smoking of the plastic, its temperature and thermal-oxidative degradation as well as the mechanical properties of the resulting welds are unidentified yet. Furthermore, in industrial infrared welding processes often high changeover times and varying joining part temperatures are existent.

Verbindungstechnik Verfahren

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Contribution to Infrared Welding of Plastics in Industrial Manufacturing

The concept of bioplastics as sustainable and environmentally friendly materials has become increasingly interesting in both academia and industry. Consequently, many researchers have made great effort in developing bioplastic materials. As new challenging materials, there is still a lack of in-depth understanding of the process−structure−property relationships, especially in multi-phase component nanocomposites.

Polybutylenterephthalat

Biokunststoffe

On the Process-Structure-Property Relationships of Poly(Lactic Acid)-Based Nanocomposites

Driven by necessary energy and cost savings, plastics are increasingly applied as primary components in tribological systems. The trend is marked by research and development regarding the effectiveness of different material compositions in reducing friction and wear, in which friction induced heat is one of the main challenges.

Werkstoffprüfung

Systematic Use of the Chemical Transformation of Magnesium Hydroxide — a New Approach for Polymer Tribology

To ensure better stability of expanded polystyrene insulation panels on the house wall, they are fastened with an additional polypropylene (PP) anchor. However, the fact that two different materials are used results in thermal bridges due to different thermal conductivities (TC), which can be seen visually as the formation of mold and algae, but also cause energy losses. The motivation for this work was to adjust the WLF of the two materials by using a filler, but not to negatively influence the mechanical strength of the anchor.

Polypropylen-Compound

Polypropylen

Füllstoffe für Kunststoffe

Modification of a polypropylene matrix by the use of hollow glass microspheres

Continuous fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP), based on flat sheets, benefit from excellent weight-specific features. These include the possibility of load path optimised design and the option of functional integration. Consequently, FRP offer a high potential for lightweight design. Materials using thermoplastic-based polymers (so-called „organic-sheets“) allow fully automated and fast manufacturing based on their physical processing and are environmentally sustainable because of their recycling capability. Additionally, through improved optical and aesthetic characteristics, new applications can be developed for a mid to high scale production range.

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Leichtbau

Oberflächentechnik

Surface optimisation of continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastics

Pultruded, fiber-reinforced tapes have so far only been tested destructively or optically non-destructively. It would therefore be desirable to have a non-destructive testing method that can detect cracks, inclusions and changes in the impregnation quickly and without contact, i.e. that can detect the complete tape volume in contrast to optical methods. The air-coupled ultrasonic method used in this work meets all these requirements.

Kohlenstofffasern / -matten

Zerstörungsfreie Werkstoffprüfung

Pultrusion

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

All-embracing Approach of Non-destructive Testing of Thermoplastic CFRP Tapes Using Air-coupled Ultrasound

Foam injection molding is a processing technology to produce foamed plastic parts in serials production, attaining an increasing interest and use in industry. However, the applications are limited due to insufficient knowledge of processing and mechanical properties, limited use of light-weight potential as well restricted surface qualities. All these drawbacks are associated with the cellular structure. The structure characteristics like skin layer thickness, cell size, density and uniformity are developed during procedure. Thus, controlling the cell formation process is the key to work against the restrictions and optimize mechanical properties.

Schaumspritzgießen

Schaumstoffe

Spritzgießsimulation

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Controlling cellular structure in thermoplastic foam injection molding – influence of processing and mold technologies

Due to the low thermal conductivity of the polymer matrix, fiber reinforced polymers exhibit a low thermal conductivity compared to metals. By increasing the thermal conductivity and thereby decreasing thermal stresses in the part, an enhancement of its lifetime can be expected.

Beschichten von Kunststoffen

Wärmeleitfähigkeitsmessung

Epoxy Based Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers with Enhanced Thermal Conductivity – Structure and Properties

Additive manufacturing, such as the selective laser sintering (SLS), provides the possibility to manufacture structures as 3D-MIDs tool free. The first three-dimensional circuit carriers are already manufactured by selective laser sintering. An established method is the LPKF-LDSprototyping process. Different from conventional 3D-MIDs this process requires an ensuing coating of the additive manufactured circuit carrier with a metal compound containing substance to enable the direct structuring by laser. Commercially available materials for injection molded 3D-MIDs already contain certain additives for laser direct structuring, that can be activated by laser. Thus, the demand for functional powder compounds for the selective laser sintering process to design three-dimensional circuit carriers is mandatory.

Structures and properties of selective laser sintered polyamide- and polyamide-copper-systems for applications in three-dimensional circuit carriers

Expandable polystyrene (EPS, coll. “Styropor”, “Unicell”, “Styrofoam”) is one of the most used foams. It accounts for one quarter of the current foam production in terms of volume. EPS has a multi-scale morphology since EPS parts consist of many fused foamed beads. The foamed beads themselves contain cells, which are formed of walls and struts as well as the cell gas. In this frame, a variation in bead size causes a significant change of surface area, which needs to be moulded, whereas the variation in cell size leads to an altered micro-morphology (cell walls and struts). However, the effect of the multi-scale morphology on the properties has never been studied in a comprehensive manner to the knowledge of the author. Hence, the aim of the work is the establishment of structure-property relationships as well as the clarification of their fundamental mechanisms for the purpose to be able to tailor the structure for a specific application. Thus, further material and cost savings could be possible. EPS and a bead foam made from a blend of polystyrene and polyethylene were studied regarding the effects of cell size, bead size and density on the mechanical and thermal behaviour. Furthermore, the distribution of polymer within a single bead was controlled by the introduction of a solid skin around the beads.

Structure-property relationships of polystyrene-based bead foams

Epoxy-carbon fiber prepregs have been used increasingly by civil aerospace industry to manufacture the structural composite parts due to their excellent mechanical, thermo-mechanical and thermal properties at the cured state. Although carbon fibers are electrically conductive, due to the insulating nature of the epoxy matrix, epoxy-carbon fiber prepreg laminates mostly act as a semiconductor in the through-thickness direction. Nowadays, an enhanced through-thickness electrical conductivity is as well desired for modern composite applications, where a certain level of electrostatic dissipation, electromagnetic shielding or an enhanced lightning strike resistance is necessary.

Towards electrically conductive and interleaf-toughened carbon black-epoxy-carbon fiber laminates with enhanced lightning strike resistance

For three decades, sustainability has been the focus of the family-owned company Krall Kunststoff-Recycling in Elsenfeld am Main.

Today, the company has almost 40 employees.

Recycling

Kunststoff-Recycling

30 Years of Krall Kunststoff-Recycling

Decathlon launch the first recycled and recyclable bodyboard made from Arpro. The used plastic 15% maritime industry waste and is a more sustainable material. The basis for this is plastic waste from the ocean.

Boy using the Radbug bodyboard made from ARPRO 35 Ocean.

Sportgeräte

Surfing with Recycled Plastics

European project on increased use of recycled plastics in electronics has started.

The project partners are developing new data-based sorting systems that prevent potentially dangerous substances from entering the plastics recycling loop.

Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Recycle Plastics from Old Electronic Devices

Mohinani is bringing PET bottle-to-bottle recycling to West Africa and is buying two Starlinger plants for this purpose.

The recoSTAR PET iV+ recycling lines produce food-grade rPET that can be used up to 100% in PET preform production.

Verpackungsmittel aus Kunststoffen

Verpackungsmaterial

Bottle-to-Bottle-Recycling in Ghana

IKV develops recyclable packaging solutions with the help of plasma technologies and presents the current state of research at the IKV colloquium in September.

Oberflächenbeschichtung

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Recyclable Barrier Systems for Sustainable Packaging

The IKV is researching digital solutions for better description and classification of recyclates. The aim is to increase the actual recyclate use rates. Results will be presented at the IKV colloquium in September.

PlasticBOND: Schematic illustration of the platform design to be developed.

Digitale Transformation

Research to Improve Recyclate Use

In the new recycling pilot plant, customers have the opportunity to develop, test and directly implement new process steps.

The Recycling Innovation Center will be built in the immediate neighborhood of the existing Test Center for bulk materials handling.

Coperion Builds Recycling Innovation Center

Neste acquires European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology.

Alterra Energy’s industrial-scale waste plastics liquefaction unit in Akron, OH/USA.

Acquisition in the Thermochemical Liquefaction Technology Area

Recyclable TPU material from Covestro meets high requirements and passes health safety testing.

The bag manufacturer is working with various industry partners to develop a truck tarp that can be reprocessed as often as required into new products, even after a long life as a bag.

Freitag Initiates Recyclable Truck Tarp

News Circular Economy

International exhibition feeling and loads of circular economy

K Preview 2022: At the end of June, several exhibitors gave a preview of what trade visitors and journalists can look forward to in October.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Schröder, Susanne

Anticipating the K 2022

J850 TechStyle 3D printer enables haute couture and luxury brands to 3D print on fabric — achieving new levels of creativity in fashion and design.

SSYS 2Y22 design by Jasna Rokegem and Travis Fitch

3D-Drucker J850 TechStyle von Stratasys ermöglicht Haute-Couture- und Luxusmarken den 3D-Druck auf Stoff für äußerst kreative Mode und kreatives Design,

Textil-, Bekleidungs-, Ledergewerbe

Filamente für additive Verfahren

Additive Fertigung

Stratasys Introduces 3D Printer for Fashion Industry

Way2K: Industry interviews in the lead-up to the K trade show 2022

View into the technical center of the machine manufacturer.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Extrusionsanlagen

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