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RECYCLING: Unbottled potential

By building a three-bedroom home in Nova Scotia from 620,000 recycled plastic water bottles, construction company JD Composites has opened up a new way to turn plastic waste into eco-friendly housing.

SIZE REDUCTION: On the cutting edge

No plastics processor actually wants to generate waste, but they all do. Efficiently reducing bad parts and other plastic waste into quality regrind for reuse is what separates the pros from the pretenders. The latest size reduction technologies can help.

PURGING: Uncolour your world

As important as it is to put colour into plastic, it’s just as important to remove it when the time is right, since any streaking in a new production schedule can render thousands of parts worthless. Commercial purging compounds were made for this.

HOT RUNNERS: Hot news

Hot runners revolutionized the molding process, and the revolution isn’t over yet. Performance requirements are becoming more demanding, leading to new enhancements in quality, control, leak protection, and troubleshooting.

INJECTION MOLDING: Molded Precision Components is pursuing perfection

Located near Barrie, Ont., this full-service engineering, product development, and injection molding specialist produces over 70 million high-precision plastic parts per year. And you could probably count the rejects on the fingers of one hand.

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