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Plastics Technology, 2009-02-04, A Quiet Revolution In Materials Characterization
...fore accomplished, the way plastics materials data are gathered and reported, in order to achieve a quantum leap in the quality, usefulness, and credibility of those data. They agreed on strict protoc...

Kunststoffe international, Crisisproof and Creative
...plastics have a firm place here. Be it as materials for innovative coatings that make medical equipment or implants more compatible, precise and reliable, microfluidic systems for rapid diagnostic techniques, or 3D-printed microoptics for quantum imaging. Who has the next multi-million dollar idea? Dr. Clemens Doriat clemens.doriat@hanser.de

Kunststoffe international, Medical Applications of Additive ‧Manufacturing
...rinters and consumer 3D printers. The British market analytics company Context states a market volume ratio of 70 : 30. There are real quantum leaps in the market here: a state-of-the-art consumer 3D printer costs around 1000 EUR these days. I dare say that around 15 years ago an industrial 3D printer of similar parts quality would have cost between 100,000 and 200,000 EUR. This means that 3D printing is now spreading horizontally instead of vertically. A home 3D printer – the HP multi jet fusi...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Close Cooperation Ensures Success
...gain that good technology management by the people involved in the innovation process is absolutely essential in this respect. In the past few years, the plastics segment has constantly surpassed itself with a continual stream of new technological quantum leaps. The reason for this success is certainly that everyone has recognised that the entire industry can only enjoy healthy growth over the long term if the people involved at every level of the innovation process - in other words the raw ma...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, High-performance Polymers: Metal Substitution and Miniaturisation
...conventional high-temperature polymers, such as LCP, PEEK or PPS. This property change is made possible by a modification already permanently incorporated into the polymer matrix. It is activated by b or γ quantum irradiation downstream of the manufacturing process, with no alternation in physical properties. The modified moulding compound is particularly suitable for SMD and 3D-MID technologies and for metallisable elements. COC – a Material with Optimum Shrinkage According to Ticona, th...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Innovations Today and Tomorrow: Polypropylene for Flexible Packaging
...packs. Anton Wolfsberger Markus Gahleitner The range of properties – and therefore the scope of application – of flexible polypropylene film and packaging has grown enormously during the last ten years. The key reasons for these 'quantum leaps' have been the numerous developments in polymer design and the breakthrough of new processing technologies such as coextrusion and extrusion coating. The question is: Is this trend going to continue in the next decade or have we already reached...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Market and Trends: Nanomaterials: Opportunities and Risks
...ne for nanotechnology? In a strict sense, as illustrated in Fig.4, a clear dividing line exists when, with decreasing size, the material properties can no longer be described by continuum mechanics, but require quantum mechanics. For quantum dots, the material properties change with diameter. Below a diameter of 60nm, yellow-coloured, electrically conducting gold becomes a red semiconductor. Fig.5 shows CdSe semiconductor nanoparticle dispersions with size-dependent photoluminescence. At nanomet...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Microscopy: Making Quantum Leaps Visible
Testing Making Quantum Leaps Visible Microscopy. Although quantum leaps and atoms cannot, of course, be observed through the microscope presented here, this portable optical digital microscope marks a further contribution towards enhancing the observation and measurement of the very smallest of three-dimensional objects. Robert Ruthenberg With a maximum resolution of 18 million pixels, the new optical digital microscope (type: VHX, manufacturer: Keyence Deutschland GmbH, Neu-Isenburg/Germ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, One Hundred Per Cent Control of Material Webs
... of between 3 and 6000 g/m2 is covered. X-ray sources can be used for inspecting metal sheet, chipboard, plastic panels and many other materials of up to several millimetre thickness. The achievable measuring accuracy depends on the activity or the quantum flux of the radiator and on the measurement time. In practical applications on plastic sheet, the Kr-85 isotope, at a measurement time of 300 ms and specific activity of 2 mCi/cm, achieves a measurement accuracy of 1 %. Although the measuremen...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, PET Packaging: Growth Market with a Future
...es by measuring quality-governing data online (Fig. 11). Apart from optimising individual machines and processes, it will be important to focus on the overall system for producing and filling PET packaging so as to achieve quantum leaps despite the enormous cost pressure. It will be necessary to improve the value chain through a process/system concept. With today’s typical production and bottling lines, it is not merely a case of cobbling together the overall plant from individual machines that...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polyethylene (PE-LD, PE-LLD)
...r co-monomer content and molecular weights of commercial interest. Now molecules, that were volume hindered in the past with Z-N catalysts, had access to the active site on more than one occasion during the polymerisation process. This represented a quantum leap on the journey bringing PE-HD performance closer to that of PE-LD. For the first time, it was possible to enjoy the benefits of LCB in substantially linear polymers. The demand for improved toughness, abuse resistance, and stiffness has ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene (PP)
...ld (Basell, Borealis, Chisso and Dow [5]). Keys to market success will be consistent quality and technical support in these mostly new application areas, which range from pipe insulation to food packaging. A quantum leap was made in the area of coating with thinnest layers (5 to 20g/m2) at highest speeds, and with HMS-PP combing the processability typical of PE-LD (400 to 500m/min) with the sterilisability of PP in superheated steam. The addition of these melt-stiff materials in the area of blow...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene Films: Versatile Packaging Solutions
...n Film PP was originally used only in the blown film process with water ring cooling. However, owing to the technical complexity and limited output of this process, it always remained a niche application. New generations of blown film machines and quantum leaps in polymer development are now enabling processors to cover entirely new fields of application with PP made by the conventional blown film method with air cooling – such as is used for polyethylene. This allows processors to be far more f...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Pressure Forming Machines: Take Control of Complex Motion Sequences
...ation KMD 85 (Fig.1) achieves 80 cycles per minute. “With this new machine, we have entered the age of speedforming“, according to Reinhold Plot, Marketing Manager at Kiefel, in his description of this new development, which represents a quantum leap in the level of performance and process speed. This advance in a technique that has been known for years makes possible a considerable increase in output. The Roll of the Controls The mechanical design, however, was only one of the challenges to be...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Seizing the Opportunities for Structural Change
...management. Knowledge management includes interpreting the information and linking it to previous knowledge, so that explicit knowledge becomes implicit knowledge. If used correctly, Internet-based knowledge in research and development can lead to a quantum leap, particularly for small and medium-sized companies. According to practical reports, knowledge management leads to greater customer proximity, innovation, cost reduction and product quality. However, rigorous knowledge management requires...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Turning Stack-Mould Technology Marks a Quantum Leap Forward
Turning Stack-Mould Technology Marks a Quantum Leap Forward A Symbiosis of Innovative Injection Moulding and Mould Technologies Rainer Armbruster, Haslach/Germany, and Jörg Dassow, Malterdingen/Germany When parts are produced by the multicomponent technology, the semi-finished injection mouldings are generally transported on a rotary table. The turning stack-mould technology that was presented some time ago and has now been fully developed is superior to the rotary-table method in terms of...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-05-23, Application Solutions: Nanoproducts Highly Praised – But What Are the Benefits?
...ibrils in the nano range (Fig.1). The size range from 0.2 to 300nm is of particular interest, since, within this scale, significant property changes can take place. These changes depend on a high surface to volume ratio and the occurrence of quantum effects. The extremely large surface area leads to a dramatic increase in chemical reactivity and to changes in the interactions with other substances. Quantum effects (generally less than 10nm) can cause changes in optical, magnetic and electrical p...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-05-23, Transparent Nanocomposites and Hybrid Materials: Invisible Helpers
Special. Invisible Helpers. Transparent Nanocomposites and Hybrid Materials. There would seem to be no limit to the variety of functional fillers. Inorganic nanoparticles can suitably be used for functionalising transparent plastics, since their small dimensions mean they are not visible to the human eye, yet they still bring completely new functions with them. Stefan Kaskel. Inorganic fillers have traditionally played a decisive role in adjusting the mechanical properties of polymers, suc...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-07-04, Company History (3): The Road to Global Player
...lid-state control system, the Polytronica II permitted what was at the time considered fast and exact execution of all commands. In 1975, Arburg introduced the world’s first standard microprocessor controls in the Allrounder H. An engineering quantum leap in plastics processing, since for the first time a microcomputer system was employed to permit programming of the command structure via a semiconductor-based memory in place of the hardwired system. The Hehl family celebrated the 50th annivers...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-27, Trend Outline: Integration and Intelligence
...stems with one control unit represents the future of high-wage countries. Machine and process technologies in injection moulding have currently reached a very high level. Today’s areas of research and development are not expected to generate quantum leaps today. They deal with improvements of details. For instance, the potential in stepping up the precision of electrical drives has not been fully tapped yet. Electrical Machines Gaining Ground. The significance of electrical machines has contin...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-02-17, Growth in Specialties
... after years of niche existence, because the automotive industry is striving to achieve high-quality plastic surfaces without painting. Advances through New Additives Advances in the additives industry do not typically occur on a broad front or in quantum leaps but rather in the form of sporadic new products with novel properties. Sometimes these only become established on the market in a hesitant fashion over quite long periods of time. For example, after many years of niche existence, perman...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-09-23, Smooth, Efficient Production
...rocess is documented. The system can be loaded by robots and unloaded with a conveyor. Hall B5, booth 5150 Axima Refrigeration Chilling Economically As the name implies, Axima Refrigeration GmbH, Lindau, Germany, specializes in chilling systems. The Quantum chilling system is aimed at the plastic industry and, according to Axima, offers up to 50 % energy savings compared to older plants. The company supports this claim by reference to Fränkische Rohrwerke, where over 120 extrusion lines a...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-04-16, Energy from the Environment
...tronger absorption offsets the lower charge carrier mobility. For poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)/[6.6]-phenyl-C61-butanoic acid methyl ester (PCBM), a material system which has been thoroughly studied, measurements have revealed a monochromatic quantum efficiency of 76 % [2]. External quantum efficiency refers to the ratio of the number of received light particles (photons) to the number of extracted electron-hole pairs. Not only organic semiconductors, but organic conductors, too, are used in th...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-08-19, Polycarbonate – How a High-tech Material Conquered the World and Continues to Do So
...tal picture content of a much higher quality. This high-definition successor to the DVD is also based on Makrolon, works with a blue-violet laser that gives the product its name, and has a storage capacity of up to 50 GB. The enormous quantum leaps in storage capacity from the CD to the Blu-Ray have been achieved with ever smaller pits, narrower track pitch, shorter wavelengths and a smaller reading/writing laser beam diameter. These technological advances are only possible because even nanoscal...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Sustainable and Efficient
... mean that OLEDs have a wide variety of potential applications, ranging from illuminated packaging and advertising spaces to state-of-the-art cell phone displays and rollable screens. One current area of OLED research is the use of quantum dots, or Q dots, to generate a higher light yield and an even wider color spectrum. Holographic photopolymer films that offer cinemastyle transparent projection are developed by Bayer MaterialScience, using new photopolymer films, that offer a wide range of ap...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
...ed with TNS (The Natural Step), an internationally recognized non-governmental organization active in the field of sustainable development, and have been discussed with external stakeholders. In detail this means making a further quantum leap in the amounts of PVC recycled, and the development of innovative recycling technologies, taking account of widely held concerns about persistent organo-chlorine emissions, use of additives based on acknowledged sustainability criteria, increasing energy ef...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-04-20, Plug-In Connectors for Household Appliances
...er materials, too. Product and Technology Trends Intelligent, remote accessed appliance products do not only deliver the standard small improvements in innovation such as a reduction of water and detergent consumption, they also facilitate a quantum leap in power and consumables reduction. In the future, it will be possible to monitor home power consumption, quite conveniently via a smartphone, without having to be physically present on site (Fig. 2). In the near future, however, we can expect a...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-03-17, Efficient Deflection Mixheads for Very Small to Very Large Outputs
...were ultimately varied until the ideal setting was found (Figs. 2 and 3). The prototypes were elaborately tested with representative polyurethane systems under real production conditions in Hennecke’s laboratory. The result can indeed be seen as a quantum leap in high-pressure mixing technology. The total efficiency of the new mixhead generation was significantly improved, which benefits the end user in several respects. The required energy for the production of molded foam parts is considerably...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-07-20, Color Marking by Pulsed Laser Irradiation
... research associate at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e. V. (LZH), Hanover, Germany, until early 2015. has been a research associate at the LZH since 2009 and leads the group nanomaterials. has a professorship for Nano Engineering at the Institute for Quantum Optics, University of Hannover and is head of the Nanotechnology Department at the LZH.AcknowledgmentThe authors thank the BMBF for funding the project "laser-generated polymer-based nanaocomposites for optical applications", FKZ 13N12123.Compa...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-07-19, A Quantum of Relevant Data
The use of cavity pressures and cavity temperature signals to control, monitor and regulate the injection molding process is the state of the art in the production of technically sophisticated plastic parts. The 4th industrial revolution is opening up untold possibilities in the automation of administrative, technical and planning processes. Such control systems are an ideal source of data of the highest relevance and information density. Utilizing and evaluating data obtained from production sy...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-10-13, 3D-Print with Affordable Pellets
Is there a quantum leap on the horizon for 3D printing? The prototype of a newly developed 3D printer is able to process commercial pellets – also those of high-performance plastics such as PEEK, PPS, PSU, PA and PC, with or without fibers. The machine applies the usual strand-deposition process, though with a simply designed print head that includes a radial screw. To produce 3D-printed plastic parts by FFF or FDM (fused filament fabrication or fused deposition modeling), wire-shaped filaments ...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-10-13, Reactive Systems and FRP
...t, approx.140091TypeSupplierDesignationResinFiber reinforcementDensity [g/cm³]Tensile modulus* [N/mm²]Tensile strength* [N/mm²]StandardUPcut GFca. 1.8 ca. 15,000ca. 100Carbon Menzolit [13]Carbon SMC 1100VEcut CF1.4230,000130Schulman / Quantum [14]AMC 8590 NTVE25 mm cut CF 12K, 53 wt. %1.4836,500162Polynt [15]24CF40-12KVE25 mm cut CF 12K, 40 wt. %1.3720,30080Tencate [16]MS-4HEP25 mm cut CF,48–50 wt. %1.542,700(net shape)302(net shape)Schulman / Quantum Lytex 4149EP25 mm cut CF 3K,55 wt. %1.4834...