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The Rising Popularity of Inorganic Pigments in the Plastic Color Masterbatch Industry
March 18, 2025 – Inorganic pigments are demonstrating remarkable advantages within the plastic color masterbatch industry. Derived primarily from natural minerals, these pigments exhibit exceptionally stable performance characteristics, including outstanding weather resistance, lightfastness, and chemical stability. Even when exposed to prolonged sunlight, varying climatic conditions, or humid environments, inorganic pigments maintain their color integrity without…
From Flexibility to Controversy: The Hidden Dangers of Plasticizers in Consumer Products
March 17, 2025 – Plastic products, celebrated for their lightweight durability and cost-effectiveness, have become ubiquitous in modern life, spanning applications from food packaging to medical devices. However, the widespread use of plasticizers—key additives that enhance material flexibility and reduce production costs—has sparked growing public concern over their potential health risks. While these chemicals are…
From Fluorite to Sustainability: Syensqo’s NFS Technology Pioneers Green FFKM for Critical Applications
March 17, 2025 – Syensqo, a global leader in high-performance materials, has unveiled a groundbreaking fluorine-free surfactant perfluoroelastomer (FFKM) product line, leveraging its proprietary NFS (Non-Fluorinated Surfactant) technology. The debut of Tecnoflon® FFKM NFS, the first commercial-grade material to eliminate traditional fluorinated surfactants entirely, marks a transformative milestone for semiconductor manufacturing and high-end industrial applications….
Black Masterbatch: A Key Player in the Plastic Industry’s Safety and Quality Assurance
March 14, 2025 – Plastic Color Masterbatches: Navigating Safety Concerns and Highlighting the Role of Black Masterbatch Plastic color masterbatches, a crucial additive for imparting color to plastic products, have long been under the industry’s safety spotlight. These masterbatches consist of a carrier, dispersant, colorant, fillers, and various additives, with the colorant being the primary…
Alcantara Superfiber: A Highlight in Xiaomi’s SU7 Ultra Luxury Car
March 14, 2025 – Xiaomi Unveils SU7 Ultra Luxury Vehicle, Featuring Alcantara Superfiber Upholstery as a Highlight Xiaomi has recently launched its SU7 Ultra, a domestically produced “new luxury car” that has captured the attention of many with its intelligent driving features and outstanding performance. Equally notable is the vehicle’s high-end configuration of materials, particularly…
JEC World 2025 Highlights Carbon Fiber Composites’ Role in Future Industrial Revolution
March 14, 2025 – JEC World 2025 Concludes with Carbon Fiber Composites Steering Future Industrial Revolution The prestigious annual event in the global composites industry, JEC World 2025, has successfully wrapped up at the Villepinte Exhibition Centre in the northern suburbs of Paris. The exhibition brought together leading enterprises worldwide, showcasing the latest applications of…
Revolutionizing Plastic Analysis: Innovative Techniques for Mixed Materials
March 13, 2025 – Unraveling the composition of mixed plastics is a complex and intricate task that marries a variety of separation techniques with advanced analytical instruments. Through the expert reverse engineering by technicians, both qualitative and quantitative analyses of unknown sample components are achieved. Among the myriad of analytical methods, Infrared Spectroscopy (IR) stands…
The Impact of Slip Masterbatches on Film Performance and Market Demands
March 12, 2025 – The film production industry has long grappled with the challenges of adhesion issues and the impact of migratory slip masterbatches on heat-sealing and printing performance. Films tend to form a vacuum-tight seal after closure, making them difficult to separate, which not only hampers production efficiency but also increases the risk of…
The Rise of SEBS and Its Modified Products in Various Industries
March 12, 2025 – SEBS, a high-performance elastomer material, has garnered significant attention due to its highly saturated main chain. Compared to SBS, SEBS undergoes a hydrogenation process on its polybutadiene blocks, resulting in a tightly entangled structure that exhibits enhanced crosslinking effects per unit volume, thereby imparting high modulus and exceptional degradation resistance. This…
Transforming Packaging: Bio-based Materials and Technological Advances Take Center Stage
March 12, 2025 – The world’s oceans are under siege from a staggering 8 million tons of plastic waste annually, causing irreparable damage to marine ecosystems. Amidst this crisis, global restrictions on plastic use are tightening, and carbon neutrality initiatives are accelerating, ushering in a profound transformation in the packaging industry centered on material and…