Category Archives: Conductive Material

Outlander Features Fenders Molded In 2-Cavity Tool

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business continues to tune up grades targeting automotive exterior body panel applications. In an interesting new development, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) selected Noryl GTX 989 [..]

Asia, Automotive, Conductive Material, Design, Injection Molding, Polyamides ,

Super-Light Aerographite Boosts Conductivity of Plastics

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

German scientists say they have created a network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level. It is described as the lightest material [..]

Conductive Material, Electronics

Lux Research: If You Believed In Konarka, Shame On You

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

The bumpy road for new green technologies continues. Earlier this year, the Telles JV to produce bioplastics collapsed because of a rising capital burden. The same problem now [..]

Conductive Material, Electronics, Green , ,

3D Electronics Debut in Sensor Application; Lighting Is Next

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Applications for the Laser Direct Structuring Process (LDS) are growing as major resin producers put muscle into the technology. In a new example, 2E mechatronic GmbH & Co. [..]

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OLED Integrated Into Car Roof in Major Breakthrough

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

OLEDs are the future for consumer lighting. That’s what I was told 18 months ago when I visited the Holst Center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Phillips, working with [..]

Alternative energy, Automotive, Conductive Material, Design, Electronics, Europe, Green, Polyethylene terephthalate , , ,

New SABIC Blend Injects Life Into Auto Body Panels

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Doug Smock | Permalink 1

There’s still a future for large thermoplastic automotive body panels, despite some well-publicized fits and starts such as the Saturn program where gaps between panels became a significant [..]

Automotive, Conductive Material, Design, Engineering Thermoplastics, Injection Molding, North America ,

TOP 10 MOLDING TECHNOLOGIES AT K2010: NO. 6

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

NO. 6: Two exhibitors at K 2010 showed important advances in electrically conductive plastics. The Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University showcased a single-step process [..]

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