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1023441 UTILIZATION OF COIR AND RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE FOR BAMBOO MATTING LAYER COMPOSITE The characteristics of coir, recycled PP and tali bamboo (Gigantochloa apus) for use as raw materials in composite board were studied and the optimum quality of composite board made from these materials was determined. The board samples target density was 0.7 g/cm^3. The board construction was a cor ... 1023442 RECENT ADVANCES ON LIGNOCELLULOSIC-BASED COMPOSITES FOR PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY-COMPATIBILITY IMPROVEMENT An overview was conducted of more than 300 articles published from 2002 to 2006 in the most important journals of the research area of Wood Science and Technology. From those, 115 are referred to in this article. The review presents the latest results from research on wood composites and, more broad ... 1022759 ‘BIODEGRADABLE ADDITIVES THREATEN RECYCLING INDUSTRY' - SAPRO The plastics recycling collection industry is well established in South Africa, from pre-consumer industrial and commercial scrap right through to post-consumer domestic packaging materials. According to SAPRO, a total of 172,000 tonnes of plastics was recycled in 2005, including 28% of all LDPE fil ... 1022762 EU INTRODUCES NEW RULES FOR FOOD GRADE PLASTICS (SHORT ITEM) It is briefly reported that recycling companies wanting to use shredded waste plastics to make bottles or other containers will have to follow new European Food Safety Authority guidelines to ensure the materials are safe for consumers. The EU regulation requires recycled plastics touching drinks or ... 1022764 POLYURETHANE FOAM PRODUCERS TACKLING ENVIRONMENTAL HURDLES (SHORT ITEM) Japan's PU foam industry is faced with environmental challenges such as reducing and even halting the use of fluorocarbon-based foaming agents, cutting the emissions of VOCs and promoting the recycling and environmentally responsible treatment of waste PU foam. The Japan Urethane Foam Association's ... 1022774 INDUSTRY SEES BAG BANS, FEES GAIN GROUND Plastic bag tax initiatives in Los Angeles, Seattle and in the California Legislature are threatening to trigger fees that would effectively ban plastic carryout bags at large retailers. Also at stake is an unravelling of the momentum the industry has built in the last year for mandated at-store rec ... 1022775 PLASTICS HELP DESIGNS BRING HOME THE GOLD A low-cost laptop, a featherlike welding helmet and a customised baby bottle used plastics in winning 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. Production of the One Laptop Per Child laptop includes injection moulding polycarbonate and a PC/ABS blend for the housing, comoulding PC/ABS and a therm ... 1022776 LINPAC INVESTS 3M POUNDS STERLING IN RECYCLED PET PACKS (SHORT ITEM) It is briefly reported that Linpac Packaging says it is now one of the largest producers of recycled PETP packaging in the UK thanks to a 3m pounds sterling investment in thermoforming and inline extrusion equipment at its Featherstone plant. The investment has helped the firm set up its new rPETP p ... 1022777 BOEING AND ALENIA SET UP RECYCLING VENTURE (SHORT ITEM) Boeing is establishing a joint venture aircraft composite recycling operation with Alenia Aeronautica in Italy as increasing amounts of high performance composites are used in modern aircraft. The project also involves Milled Carbon of the UK, which has a pilot scale technology for recovering carbon ... 1022816 ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED STYRENIC POLYMERS USING SPECTROSCOPY AND CHROMATOGRAPHY The recycling of styrene-based polymers was examined by means of modelling studies. Changes in the chemical structure of high-impact polystyrene were examined by means of attenuated total-reflection FTIR and Raman spectroscopy. Low-molecular compounds were analysed by means of extraction and high-pe ... 1022849 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON A RECYCLED POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) MATRIX CONTAINING SEVERAL NANOCLAYS Nanocomposites of recycled poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and both natural (Nanomer PGV MMT), and organically modified Nanomer I44P, Nanomer I30P and Cloisite 30B montmorillonites (O-MMT) were prepared by solution dispersion method with the use of two miscible solvents, followed by melt intercalat ... 1022969 ELIMINATION OF MATRIX EFFECTS IN THE DETERMINATION OF BISPHENOL A IN MILK BY SOLID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION-HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY The development of a method based on solid-phase microextraction coupled to HPLC with fluorescence detection to determine bisphenol A, an intermediate in the industrial manufacture of polycarbonate and phenolic resins and which shows oestrogenic activity, in milk is described. Optimisation of sample ... 1022970 SiOx LAYER AS FUNCTIONAL BARRIER IN POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET) BOTTLES AGAINST POTENTIAL CONTAMINANTS FROM POST-CONSUMER RECYCLED PET The fabrication of poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) bottles with a silicon oxide coating on the inner surface using a plasma impulse chemical vapour deposition process with hexamethyldisiloxane and hexamethyldisilazane as sources of silicon oxide is described. The barrier effect of the silicon oxid ... 1022971 RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY OF DMF FROM WET TYPE POLYURETHANE SYNTHETIC LEATHER WASTE GAS The development of a new recovery technology to recycle N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) at low concentrations in waste gas from wet type polyurethane synthetic leather industry using two-stage counter-current absorption and two-stage fog removing systems is described. Computer control of operating param ... 1023052 THE PROPERTIES OF POLYOLEFINS MODIFIED WITH PET POWDER Studies of the effects of addition of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) powder to mixtures of low density polyethylene and isotactic polypropylene (PP) were carried out as part of a larger study into reprocessability of mixed waste. Melt mixed samples prepared as composite films were characterised us ... 1023107 FLAME RETARDANT NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON RECYCLED PET AND PC Nanocomposites were prepared by melt mixing using phosphorus containing montmorillonites as fillers and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or blends of recycled PET and polycarbonate (PC) as the polymer phase. Nanocomposites were characterised using dynamic mechanical thermal analysis, cone ... 1023430 IN SITU ATR-FTIR SPECTROSCOPY OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) SUBJECTED TO HIGH-TEMPERATURE METHANOL In-situ ATR-FTIR spectroscopy combined with a high-pressure cell was applied to measure IR spectra of polymers subjected to superheated or near-critical methanol (100-200 deg C). Spectra of PETP were measured under exposure to high temperature methanol using this ATR-FTIR approach in order to gain a ... 1023452 PRODUCTION OF REINFORCED COMPOSITES WITH NATURAL FIBERS FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS - EXTRUSION AND INJECTION WPC A study was conducted of the replacement of currently-used thermoplastics by composites reinforced with vegetable fibres. Several advantages were demonstrated, mainly better mechanical properties, low weight and competitive cost compared with its counterparts. Extrusion and injection moulding proces ...
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