Plastics competitive analysis

Automotive Shredder Residue Its Application in Steel Mill Blast Furnaces—A Preliminary Analysis Prepared for the American Plastics Council and the Environmental and Plastics Industry Council of CPIA, Competitive Analysis Centre, Inc., Ontario, Canada, October 1997. 

Methods for competitive analysis, troubleshooting process and product problems, plastics analysis, analysis of failed products and analysis of polymeric formulations are discussed. Procedures covered include FTIR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, surface analysis by spectroscopy, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, atomic force microscopy and techniques for analysing unidentified formulations. 47 refs. 

M. Ezrin, Plastics Analysis - The Engineff s Resource for Troubleshooting Prodnct and Process Problems and for Competitive Analysis, Plast. Eng., 40 (2002). 

The AAS technique is in competition with plasma emission spectroscopy (Section 2.6) for the elemental analysis of plastic, rubber and other polymeric... 

We present recent results on the analysis of the interaction between plasticity and crazing at the tip of a preexisting crack under mode I loading conditions. Illustrations of the competition between these mechanisms are obtained from a finite element model in which a cohesive surface is laid out in front of the crack. 

Baitz M, Wolf M-A (2001) Sustainable product development on basis of the life cycle analysis of materials plastics and metals Synergy or competition Sustainable metals Workshop, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg (Amim von Gleich)... 

MRI, Resource and environmental profile analysis of plastics and competitive materials. Prepared for the Society of the Plastic Industries, Kansas City, MO, 1974. 

As the familiarity with the system has increased, so has the number of uses which we have found for the information it has yielded. These uses now include sales analysis, and the determination of sales territories warehousing and distribution studies advertising and promotional programs end-use market studies the surveying of competitive products. Information obtained on end uses and competitive products is, in turn, applied in our product development programs which constitute a highly important and costly part of competing in the plastics industry. 

Plastic products are manufactured using a variety of processing techniques and materials. It is practically impossible to identify a plastic material or product by a visual inspection or a simple mechanical test. There are many reasons that necessitate the identification of plastics. One of the most common reasons is the need to identify plastic materials used in competitive products. Defective products returned from the field are quite often put through rigorous identification analysis. Sometimes it is necessary to identify a finished product at a later date in order to verify the material used during its manufacture. The custom compounders of reprocessed materials may also need to identify already processed material purchased from different sources. Quite often, processors find substantial quantities of plastic material, hot stamp foils, and decals in the warehouse without any labels to identify the particular type. A little knowledge of the identification process can save time and money. 

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