Embrace - PET - Eastman Chemical Company

Plastics Technology, 2008-06-30, Composites Embrace Mass Production
The focus this year at the international JEC Composites Show in Paris was not so much on brand-new processes as on adapting existing processes and materials for mass production, especially of large pa...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Life Cycle Costing: Making Sustainability of Plastics Measurable
...and one of category B (New A, New B). For the old refrigerator, two alternatives are examined with different consumption data: 260kWh/a (Old 1) and 330kWh/a (Old 2). Ecological Assessment The system limits of an eco-efficiency analysis embrace the individual steps needed to satisfy the customer benefit. It is based on a modular structure. After taking into account all the stages of the life cycle, the necessary data are compiled and plotted in the form of eco-profiles (from cradle to factory g...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Risks of Ignoring the Rules: Holistic Cleanroom Planning for Medical Products
...purely technical applications, medicinal and pharmaceutical applications require not only absence of particles but also absence of pathogens. For this reason, the planning and design of a manufacturing line for medicinal products must embrace criteria that are more comprehensive than would seem necessary at first glance. Figure 2 illustrates why planning alone is, and has to be, so complex. For example, there are all the various factors that influence production in a cleanroom to be taken into a...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Stepping into the Breach
...pany has recently been using its extensive PET expertise to develop and launch new specialities onto the market "on the quiet". A large number of products are made from copolyester starting materials of different basic structures. Eastar and Embrace are copolyester grades which meet the demands for film, flexible packaging and shrink-wrap film. Durastar can be injection moulded and is doing particularly well in the cosmetics industry. Durastar copolyesters for high-clarity injection moul...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, Opening the Door to Lightweight Design and Process Integration
...ection molding along with the proper tooling technology (Fig. 2). The injection molding machines were initially supplied by Hettinga from the USA under the name “low-pressure injection molding machine”. European machine makers were slow to embrace the idea, and even car makers at the time were far more reserved than they are today when it came to introducing new technologies. Back then, lightweight construction was not a major consideration. So it took some time for developments to get underway....

Kunststoffe international, 2014-08-19, "Establishing a Footprint in Europe Was Essential to Accelerate Growth"
...ur sales are outside of the United States and the Benelux region where we manufacture. We have been successful in transforming our business to date by having a clear vision, being open to change and having an organizational culture that embraces the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement, innovation and productivity. This culture will be our basis going forward as we continue to transform into an increasingly more significant global specialty chemicals producer. Kunststoffe: Reducing env...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-08-14, Taxes, Bans, and Regulations
...s like these, the European plastics industry cannot continue its business as usual but needs to monitor and become actively involved in the legislative process. The goal of the trade association European Plastics Converters (EuPC) is it therefore to embrace the EU Plastics Strategy and work with all stakeholders including polymer suppliers and recyclers, brand owners, public authorities and OEMs towards its objectives.A Possible EU Plastic TaxIn March 2018, a proposal of EU Commissioner Günther ...

Kunststoffe international, 2019-04-25, Reaching the Customer Faster
...igital end-to-end production process for components of injection molds. The world is experiencing an accelerated pace of digitalization and it is influencing every aspect of our lives. Husky recognizes this shift and we have been actively working to embrace digitalization for some time," said John Galt, Husky’s President and CEO, who had traveled from Canada for the event. "The NGOM program will revolutionize the way we do business." By subordinating its own production processes to a digital end...

Kunststoffe international, 2020-02-12, Lightweight Components from the Roll
...s in Breckerfeld (nearby Lüdenscheid), Germany, together with his brother Nils and their father Uwe Braselmann (Fig. 1). “Needless to say, the material requirements of our customers play a part in determining the extent to which we eventually embrace innovations. Considerable effort is often required, but for FDC we can only report positive results so far.” FDC means fiber direct compounding and refers to a process developed for Allrounder injection molding machines by Arburg GmbH + Co KG, Lossb...

Kunststoffe international, 2020-08-11, “You Can See What Is Happening in the Mold”
... the machine is running the calculations for a simulation model. Our goal is for the 3D representation to run in real-time. Kunststoffe: What do you think: will your customers embrace the filling assistant? Duffner: The filling assistant is an essential tool for sampling, for the mold designer – provided that the results are reliable, and the machine setter can trust their accuracy. This is our first priority. Of course, this what we believe. For example, let’s take a technical part with leaps i...