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Stabilisers

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Stabilisers increase both virgin resin's and post-consumer plastic plastic's strength and resistance to degradation. Heat stabilisers provide resistance to thermal degradation during periods of ...

Styroform

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Styroform is a trademarked name for a specific form of insulation manufactured by The Dow Chemical Company. "STYROFOAM" is not synonymous with "polystyrene."

Sustainable development

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To meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (The World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, Oxford ...

Thermoforming

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The process of heating a thermoplastic sheet to a working temperature and then forming it into a finished shape by means of heat or pressure. (Modern Plastics encyclopaedia 1995).

(1) Capable of being repeatedly softened by heat and hardened by cooling. (2) A material that will repeatedly soften when heated and harden when cooled. Typical of the thermoplastic family are the ...

Industrial scrap

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Any plastic resin or products, such as factory regrind and plant scrap, recycled outside of the primary manufacturing facility. Also referred to as post-industrial or pre-consumer plastics. (1995 ...

Injection moulding

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A process that involves transmitting melted resin into a mold's cavity; the molten resin then cools and solidifies, and the finished piece is ejected from the mold. (Modern Plastics encyclopaedia ...