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Mizkan Americas, Mt. Prospect, Ill., a leading condiment manufacturer, has started using 16oz long neck Powerflex™ polyethylene terephthalate ( PET ) hot fill bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, a leading producer of PET packaging, for its Buccaneer Blends barbecue sauces. Mizkan recently moved from ambient fill bottles to hot fill containers for the Buccaneer Blends line - a product acquired by Mizkan during the purchase of World Harbor Sauces & Marinades, Auburn, Maine, earlier this year. "To ensure product quality, we decided to switch from the ambient fill to the hot fill process," said Dave Rotunno, Director of Marketing for Mizkan. "Amcor's Powerflex bottle handles the hot fill process and offered the best solution to meet our manufacturing needs." The long neck PET bottle is finding increased use as a hot fill option in this food category, according to Amcor. The rest of the former World Harbors' line of sauces and marinades are bottled in ambie

In collaboration with Ticona and K.D. Fedderson, the German kitchen appliance manufacturer Miele Inc. has developed a new oven function for its high-performance ovens range available under the trade name H5000: these new Miele ovens are equipped with a special hot water tank that automatically takes in the right amount of water and dispenses it as jets of steam into the oven cavity. This new function, namely “moisture plus” is said to provide improved results in baking and roasting. This newly-developed hot water tank that has to withstand high temperature of up to 220°C has been made from a 15% glass fiber reinforced poly(phenylene sulphide) material i.e. Fortron™ MT9115L0 DW from Ticona by using an extrusion blow molding process. This PPS grade has been chosen because it complies with the FDA requirement and with the European 2002/72/EC directive for food contact application. Furthermore it exhibits high dimensional stability and minimal water absorption even under high thermal stres

To ease up and automate the processing of raw materials used in automotive, aviation and aerospace industries, Fraunhofer researchers are now using laser technology. The infrared laser melts the surface of the fiber-reinforced thermoplastic components. When compressed at fluid stage and then hardened, the result is a strong and stable bond. During the tape placement, carbon fibers are integrated into long strips of resilient thermoplastic resin. Multiple laminate layers are stacked on top of each other by means of lasers. Tape strips cool down and fuse with each other quickly. Not only small components, even bulky components made of fiber-reinforced plastic can be joined together strongly. Laser-made components can find their applications in the form of airplane fuselages, load-bearing structures for cars, components of boat hulls, rocket tanks, aircraft components and rotary blades.

he Japanese plastic converter Nissei Industries Ltd. has produced the thinnest low-profile side view light-emitting diodes (LEDs) specially designed for thin-profile mobile phones. This ultra-thin LEDs are 0.4mm high and are made from a 22% mineral filled, light-stabilized, high-reflectivity polyphthalamide ( PPA ) material supplied by the Belgian material producer Solvay Advanced Polymers i.e. Amodel™ A-4422 LS WH118. This grade allows to fill very thin walls and runs in high-cavity molds up to 264 cavities. It has a fast crystallization rate and offers higher flow, faster cycles, lower flash and greater overall performance than conventional glass fiber reinforced polyamide -9T materials. The PPA ultra-thin LED reflector cups are injection molded onto the lead frame by Nissei Industries and supplied to a Taiwanese packaging company that produces LEDs for the mobile phone industry.

The innovative automotive interiors specialist Johnson Controls Interiors (JCI) has developed a concept car for the small-vehicle market that was unveiled on the occasion of the 2009 North American International Auto Show. This concept vehicle, namely ‘re3’ (for Rethink the interior through innovative engineering, Renew with sustainable solutions, Respond by generating consumer appeal) is both fuel-efficient and eco-friendly by design. It features the use of visible natural fibers in the vehicle interior thanks to the so-called “Exposed Natural Material” technology, which complies with the stringent requirement for Class A finishes: a wood fiber mat with acrylic resin binder i.e. Fibrowood™ material or a moldable mat made of polypropylene ( PP ) and natural fibers that can be formed and covered in a one-step process i.e. EcoCor™ have been used to produce the instrument and door panels, the Class A surface being obtained by applying a thin, transparent film onto the panels. This techno

To ease up the process of maintaining law and order, law-enforcement agencies can now use ‘Cobra cuffs’ while doing mass arrests or controlling the crowd on a large scale. Milspec, an Asheville NC-based thermoplastic vulcanizates ( TPV ) manufacturer has introduced these police cuffs, that are made of Sarlink 3100 with 45 shore D grade. Because this TPV shows neutral colorability, Cobra cuffs can be made available in various colors choices of: black, orange, yellow, red, pink, and blue. This also makes color coding possible, thus enhancing safety and processing detainees according to criminal charges. This grade features high flexural fatigue endurance, heat resistance, impact strength, 250 pounds of tensile strength and good abrasion strength. Sarlink combines the performance characteristics of thermoset rubber, with the ease of plastic processing. Sarlink is a thermoplastic vulcanisate based on dynamically vulcanized ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber particles dispersed

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