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Content Section Updated
- Published 10/1/2007
The articles and white papers section of plastics.com has been updated. Many new features. Got content?
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- Published 09/29/2007
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Articles Section Launched
- Published 10/5/2005
Today, we've launched the "Articles" section of plastics.com's content. We are now actively soliciting contributors. If interested please click here.
Featured Articles
PVC--Polyvinylchloride What is PVC?
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 02/13/2006
- Commodity Plastics
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PVC, Polyvinyl chloride, or "Vinyl" is the second largest volume plastic resin produced and consumed worldwide. Volume estimates for year 2000 world PVC production are in the 44 Billion pound range (20 MM metric tons), with about 14 billion pounds (6.35 MM metric tons), 32%, from US producers.
An Introduction To Plastics
- By Greg Goebel
- Published 10/6/2005
- Plastics & Polymers
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Plastics have become a universal material, used for everything from throwaway bags to wings for combat aircraft. Plastics are cheap, lightweight, strong, often attractive, and can be synthesized with a wide range of properties. This document provides a short introduction to plastics technology.
The History of Celluloid
- By Keith Lauer and Julie Robinson
- Published 10/5/2005
- Plastics Historical
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The History of Celluloid is a complete stand alone article which is also a chapter excerpt from the book, "Celluloid, Collector's Reference and Value Guide" published in 1999 and is published here by the kind permission of the authors and publisher.
Recent Articles
How to Turn Your Regular Mobile Phone Into a Mobile Email Tool More Powerful Than a Blackberry
- By Jason Sands
- Published Today
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Having your email accessible in the palm of your hand while you're mobile is no longer a dream nowadays With the advent of new technology like Blackberry, now a person can go anywhere he likes and still have access to the all important emails being sent to his email address
Photometric Lighting Analysis
- By Russell Neal
- Published Today
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
One of the many services that Illuminations Lighting and Design offers to custom home owners, commercial entities, and high-end hospitality lighting clients is a full photometric analysis of their home, business, or grounds We use a specialized software program called AGI32 designed for the calculation of lighting levels and the rendering of electric lighting systems
Commercial & Industrial Netting Made in the USA
- By Camille Howe
- Published Today
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Most netting is made from nylon, polyester, or high tenacity polypropylene, a plastic polymer with amazing strength and resilience Netting is used in almost every environment or industry for some functional or safety-related task
2800K Led Festoon Lamps
- By Russell Neal
- Published Today
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Phantom Lighting Systems has now introduced 2800K LED festoon lamps to the market This is a significant development in our LED accent lighting technology which brings LED festoon lamps closer than ever to the warm color temperatures standard to incandescent light bulbs and to which we have all become accustomed
Tree Lighting
- By Russell Neal
- Published Today
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Tree lighting is one of the most superb forms of lighting design Any landscape with large enough trees will be enhanced by this highly sophisticated and innovative lighting technique
