Service plastic

Automotive Plastics Design Manufacturing Services Plastic Packaging Industrial Parts Plastic Consumer Products Decorating Labeling Services... 

To protect themselves for the vast sums spent in both product development and technical service, plastics producers are going to have to exercise more strict control over patents, and may well have to pay closer attention to the licensing of certain applications. In times of heavy competition, all possible sources of income must be investigated. Even now, many companies are licensing the by-products of plastics developments. New instruments, new coating and molding equipment, and new techniques of handling and application are no... 

SPI also sponsors two major trade shows—National Plastics Exposition (NPE) and Plastics USA—which provide a showcase for the industry and its products and an unparalleled forum for industry interaction. The triennial NPE attracts upward of80,000 industry professionals from around the world to view the latest plastics innovations, products, technologies, and services. Plastics USA, also held every three years, serves as an industry update between NPEs, with a focus on the North American marketplace. 

Mixed recycled plastic lumber bridge decks, boat docks, doors, floors, furniture, windows, fences, pallets, etc. are product examples in service. Plastic lumber would be maintenance-free for at least half a century, as opposed to 15 years for treated wood and 5 yeare for untreated wood. Extensive use is made in applying plastics in wood to improve their structural and decorative properties. 

The FMEA methodology is now extensively used in a variety of industries including semiconductor processing, food service, plastics, software and health care, where it is sometimes integrated into Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) to provide a primary design and process risk mitigation tool. 

Food packaging and food service plastics have the shortest service lifetime of any plastic product manufactured and end up in the waste or litter at a much faster rate compared to other plastic products. Packaging therefore has implications on sustainable development for several reasons. First, being a high-volume-use sector, plastic packaging produces waste that can end up in urban litter and even as ocean debris (see Chapter 10). There is no efficient mechanisms to collect, recycle, or dispose of most plastic litter. Secondly, some of the primary plastic packaging is used in contact with food or beverages, and the possibility of additives (and residual monomer)... 

Figure 8.30 Piping practices (new services) plastic service connected to a cast iron main (From Right, J.E. (1981). Practical Corrosion Control Methods in Gas Utility Piping, NACE). (Reproduced by permission of NACE, USA)...

Aniline 21 5 Resistant - no indication of impaired service plasticizer ... 

Benzenesulfonic Acid 10 21 6 Resistant - no indication of impaired service plasticizer DuPont Specimen Data for applications with material thickness greater than 20 mils 10 60 6... 

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